Metro Style Apps with Data is a book that outlines the best practices and recommendations for building Metro applications that consume and interact with various forms of data, including XML and JSON content managed through various web services, as well as content resulting from communication with SQL Server and SQL Azure.
Discover how to build applications that work with both on-premises and cloud services seamlessly.Focusing on the code-behind, Metro Style Apps with Data provides a good introduction to the new core elements of the WinRT framework that facilitate data access, as well as a set of re-usable code fragments that can be integrated in production applications.
*Introduces you to the basics of data access via WinRT
*Explains the limitations you will have to be aware of when working with data in Metro applications
*Compares the performance of various data access and storage layers
*Explains the process of consuming service-oriented data from both on-premise and cloud services
