Hello World Windows Store (Metro) App Using C++

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++.