Hello, programmers! We’re happy to announce that Charles Petzold’s newest update to his classic book, Programming Windows , has shipped to the printer! The book contains 1136 pages—we were simply silly to originally estimate the book’s length at 800 pages—and its ISBN is 9780735671768. You can order the book here , here , here , or here . You can also download a PDF with two complete chapters and the full Table of Contents here . Programming Windows, Sixth Edition focuses on creating Windows 8 apps accessing the Windows Runtime with XAML and C#. The book also provides C++ code samples. The Sixth Edition includes 19 chapters organized in two parts: PART I   ELEMENTALS CHAPTER 1  Markup and Code   3 CHAPTER 2  XAML Syntax   31 CHAPTER 3  Basic Event ...read more