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This article is Day #1 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You can find additional resources, downloads, and source code on our website.
In the first article of this series, Clark and I thought it was important to cover the inner workings of a Windows Store Blank App template in Visual Studio 2012. We will cover each of the files, why they are important, as well as many of the settings that may be hidden in each one. This should give you a solid foundation for the rest of the series, where we will be using each of these files heavily.