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6 CHAPTER 1 Getting started with Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012

mundane tasks that would be common to all applications of that type and then saved as a

framework that you can use to get started.

On the left side of the New Project screen, you can select from recent project templates

that you’ve used or from the complete list of installed templates, or you can go online to

select a template. You’ll find that the installed templates are divided according to program-

ming language. Figure 1-2 shows the templates that are installed for JavaScript.

FIGURE 1-2 he New Project screen with the JavaScript project templatesT

NOTE INCLUDED TEMPLATES

In Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8, all the included templates are for creating

Windows 8 Windows Store applications. In Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, all included

templates are for creating web applications. Remember that you can use HTML5, CSS3, and

JavaScript in Windows Store applications and web applications.

The following are short descriptions of each template.

■■Blank App This template isn’t quite empty. It provides a single-page project for a

Windows app, but it has no predefined controls on the page.

■■Grid App This template provides an application that contains multiple pages and

enables you to navigate among groups of items.

■■Split App his template creates a two-page project in which the first page contains T

a group of items, and the second page contains an item list with details of the selected

item to the right of the list.