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On June 7th, we released a service pack for Essential Studio—v10.2.0.75. The two major updates were:
I was one of the first developers to download the Release Preview. After so much speculation around the new platform, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I could still run my old Silverlight applications right on the Windows 8 desktop. Even more exciting was the built-in support the platform has for C# and XAML, the same languages I've used to develop dozens of Silverlight and WPF applications. I quickly reached out to my publisher with the proposal for a book that would teach developers how to design Windows 8 Metro applications using C# and XAML. I purchased a Samsung Series 7 slate and began writing the book and developing applications directly on the tablet.
I believe the platform has many amazing features that developers will love, ranging from the flexibility of programming languages to the support for well-known technologies like XAML and HTML 5.
