Microsoft Press is offering a free developer oriented Windows 8 book . The book comes in the expected PDF format and can be downloaded here.
Unlike other free eBooks, this one is a whopping 834 pages:
- Chapter 1: The Life Story of a Windows Store App: Platform Characteristics of Windows 8
- Chapter 2: Quickstart
- Chapter 3: App Anatomy and Page Navigation
- Chapter 4: Controls, Control Styling, and Data Binding
- Chapter 5: Collections and Collection Controls
- Chapter 6: Layout
- Chapter 7: Commanding UI
- Chapter 8: State, Settings, Files, and Documents
- Chapter 9: Input and Sensors
- Chapter 10: Media
- Chapter 11: Purposeful Animations
- Chapter 12: Contracts
- Chapter 13: Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks
- Chapter 14: Networking
- Chapter 15: Devices and Printing
- Chapter 16: WinRT Components: An Introduction
- Chapter 17: Apps for Everyone: Accessibility, World-Readiness, and the Windows Store