By James Quick, Microsoft Technical Evangelist and Blogger

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about using Microsoft Project Siena to build applications for Windows 8.  In the presentation, I went through most of the basics that are covered in the tutorial videos online.  I have a couple of previous posts on Project Siena if you aren’t familiar with the tool, Microsoft Project Siena and Azure Mobile Services in Project Siena.  Anyway, like I said I covered the basics; reading in data from excel sheets, azure mobile services, and REST Api services, arranging layouts, etc, but one attendee, Chris Jackson, had already explored and gone way beyond that.

So, at the event Chris came up to the front to show off some of the work that he had done using Project Siena.  He showed off his two apps that he had been working on, Not Like the Other and I Love Books Bedtime Stories, and I must say, they looked awesome!

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