Beginning creating Windows 8 Metro apps with C# and XAML

I'm looking to develop a game for Windows 8 using C# and XAML, simply because I have a small amount of experience with C# and XNA 4.0 (Am I right in thinking I need to move on from XNA for win8?).

With it being such a fresh topic, a quick search on Amazon for a book to learn to create such apps only yielded a very small number of results... most of which have no reviews yet. I was just wondering if anyone can recommend a book for a (sort of) newbie, probably based on the quality of previous titles by the author?

Alternatively, any good web resources? (I'm a student so don't have much money after all!)

Apologies for asking such an open-ended question... I'm just struggling to find where to begin.

c# windows xaml microsoft-metro

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Charles Petzold has written a new version of Programming Windows, which in previous versions was (and still is!) the reference for coding against Win32.

The 6th edition:

[focuses] on writing Metro style applications for Windows 8

It's available from O'Reilly at a discounted price of $20 at the moment and seems pretty good from what I've read of it so far! It'll go up in price progressively (as detailed on the O'Reilly website) between now and November to $50, so worth grabbing now if you can - particularly as you mention you're a student and thus lacking funds =)

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Beginning creating Windows 8 Metro apps with C# and XAML

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