Using Visual Studio and its templates
So we now have the tools. With Visual Studio as our playground and JavaScript as our programming language, we are set and ready to develop. We will start by creating a new project for Windows Store. Go to File | New Project. Drill down under Installed, go to Templates and then to JavaScript | Windows Store, and select a template type as the following screenshot shows:
As you see in the previous screenshot, on the center pane of the New Project dialog there are five templates to choose from. These templates come with Visual Studio 2012 and provide a good starting point and help you jump-start and speed up the development of your apps. These project templates, as per their order of appearance on the New Project dialog, are as follows:
Blank App: This is a basic project template that creates an empty Windows Store app that compiles and runs. However, it contains no user interface controls or data.
Grid App: This is a project that provides a grid view format...
