C H A P T E R  1

Getting Started

The most effective way to introduce the concepts we want to discuss in this book is through an example. The example application for this book is a simple grocery list manager called MetroGrocer. As an application in its own right, MetroGrocer is pretty dull, but it is a perfect platform to demonstrate the most important Metro features. You can see how the app looks by the end of this book in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1. The example application

This is a book about programming and not design. MetroGrocer is not a pretty application, and I don't even implement all of its features. It is a vehicle for demonstrating coding techniques, pure and simple. You have picked up the wrong book if you want to learn about design. If you want to do some heavy-duty Metro programming, then you are in the right place.