Read original post by Geoff Webber-Cross at Geoff's Blog
I thought this would be a two line job, but as often in Windows 8, things aren't always as you'd expect. All I wanted to do was list font names for a combo box picker, but found you need to use DirectX DirectWrite to get the font names.
There's an example of doing this in an HTML/JS app using a C++ interop here:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/DirectWrite-font-60e53e0b