István Novák - Beginning Windows 8 Application Development

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Beginning Windows 8 Application Development

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To Henriett, Eszter, and Rka. Thank you for your love and support.

Istvn Novk

To Adrienn. Thank you for being so supportive and for always standing behind me.

Zoltn Arvai

To all my friends and family who endured while I was writing the umpteenth last paragraph for the dayat 10 p.m.on our holiday.

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Istvn Novk is an associate and the chief technology consultant of SoftwArt, a small Hungarian IT consulting company. He works as a software architect and community evangelist. In the last 20 years, he participated in more than 50 enterprise software development projects. In 2002, he co-authored the first Hungarian book about .NET development. In 2007, he was awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title, and in 2011 he became a Microsoft Regional Director. As the main author, he contributed in writing the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book (Indianapolis: Wiley, 2010), and he is the author of Beginning Visual Studio LightSwitch Development (Indianapolis: Wiley, 2011). He holds masters degree from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, and also has a doctoral degree in software technology. He lives in Dunakeszi, Hungary, with his wife and two teenage daughters. He is a passionate scuba diver. You may have a good chance of meeting him underwater at the Red Sea in any season of the year.

Gyrgy Balssy teaches web development as a lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a founding member of the local MSDN Competence Center (MSDNCC), having an important role in evangelizing the .NET platform as a speaker, book author, and consultant. Balssy provided leadership in the foundation of the Hungarian .NET community as a key evangelist on Microsoft events, technical forums, and as the head of the Portal Technology Group in the MSDNCC. He is a regular speaker on academic and industrial events, presenting in-depth technical sessions on .NET, ASP.NET, Office development, and ethical hacking, with which he won the Best Speaker and the Most Valuable Professional awards in SharePoint, ASP.NET, and IIS multiple times. He was also selected to be a member of the ASPInsiders group. Since 2005, Balssy has been the Microsoft Regional Director in Hungary. You can visit his blog at .

Zoltn Arvai is a software engineer specializing in client application development and front-end architectures. Hes very passionate about user experience and next-generation user interfaces. Hes been a freelancer the last seven years, working on several .NET projects, mainly in the enterprise software development world. Arvai was honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2009, and has been recognized three times as a Silverlight MVP. He is a frequent speaker at local Microsoft events. Arvai has co-authored Hungarian books about Silverlight 4.0 and Windows Phone 7.5. He lives in Budapest, Hungary, where he enjoys playing jazz on his old piano, and is a big fan of meeting different cultures all over the world.