First preview: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition

Greetings. To add to the great information being shared at //build/ this year, we’re happy to provide a First Preview of the upcoming second edition of Kraig Brockschmidt’s Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!

As you might remember, over the course of 2012, we published three versions of the first edition: First Preview, Second Preview, and the final release. All were free. And we’ll be doing the same thing with the second edition; all three releases will be free.

Lots of information about this preview appears in the Introduction excerpt below, including a link to the companion content for this release.

And the 255-page PDF itself can be downloaded here:

http://aka.ms/SecondEdition/FirstPreview (5.57 MB)

FYI, we’ll be providing EPUB and MOBI for the ebook’s final release, not for the two preliminary releases.

Also, please remember that this material is in DRAFT form. This content will not be final until the ebook’s final release.

Enjoy!

Introduction:

It seems like it was only a few months ago that I was writing the introduction for the first edition of this book,Programming Windows 8 Apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Of course, it was only 8 months ago! It’s been a remarkably short time between the release of Windows 8 and the Windows 8.1 Preview that we’ve made available as of June 26^th 2013 for the //build conference. And yet much has been improved in the Windows platform during that time.

First of all, however, let me thank the hundreds of thousands of readers who downloaded the first edition of this ebook, both directly from Microsoft Press and from the Amazon Kindle store where the book has maintained a high ranking among programming titles as well as within the broader computer & technology category. I’m delighted that this work has been serving you well, and I was certainly inspired to start in on this second edition as soon as I began reading the specifications for Windows 8.1 Preview. My notes on what to add, what to change, and what to expand are quite lengthy!