Video Tutorial : Creating Win 8 Metro App to work with Picture Library (WinRT, XAML and C# )

Some time back, I created a small Windows 8 Metro Application (Windows Store App) which can access the Windows Picture Library and display thumbnails of all the pictures available in it. This post should be of a little help for developers who just started exploring Metro Apps for Windows 8.

I've created a detailed 30 minutes video covering many aspects (Code, UI, Concepts) of building a Metro Application for the Picture library Thumbnails. Go ahead and watch it.




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