Introduction
In this article we will create a "Hello World" Windows Store (Metro) App using C++. It's a simple app to open the Windows picture library.
Step 1
We will select the "C++" template Windows Store Blank App.
Step 2
We will add a simple button control with a click event.
It will result the UI as mentioned below.
Step 3
Navigate to the button click event and we will add the following code to show the alert message using the WinRT API:
And we will see the result as shown below:
Step 4
Using the WinRT API, we will use the Pickers object to select a file with the ".jpg" format.
We will see the result as in the following:
Summary
Using C++ to play with Windows native API's is a tedious process. But using WinRT we will able to develop applications using C++.