I'm going to make an application in C ++ in the style of Metro apps for Windows 8 / 8.1. Through Clion from JetBrains. Please tell me in which direction to dig, which libraries to use, whether the win32 library is suitable, maybe someone is a professional in this business and will tell you a book or an article. I am not well versed in this matter, but I want to understand.

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    First, if you want to develop a so-called. “Metro” applications, then immediately forget about CLion - only Visual Studio. Why? Because, CLion supports 2 compilers: gcc and clang. Neither can do C ++ / CX extensions. Of course, you can use the WRL , but I can not find a single plus from the use of it, but the suffering from its use, I believe, is not small.

    Second, why are you laying on Win8 / 8.1? If we start, can it be better right away with UWP ?

    You can start with Creating the “Hello World” application in C ++ , and then explore and learn. This is a completely new platform in which the old, win32, API does not work. You will have to study a lot, but there are enough resources. True books are more and more on .NET, but they can be used to study, because there won't be much difference with C ++ - there are books on the platform, and the API is unified there (although some things will be much simpler in .NET)

    • This is how CLion uses CMake, which is quite supported by the MS compiler. But yes, I agree, there is little sense from this. - Mikalai Ramanovich