Using new XAML tools with Visual Studio 2015

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. 

I think most developers start this way (code behind instead of XAML). XAML isn't immediately intuitive, but once you cross the boundary (of understanding) XAML tends to be a simpler approach. And, frankly, I tend to think that simplicity is always the better choice 

Developing Universal Windows Apps with C# and XAML 

A new free extension for Visual Studio was released that enables developers to create cross-platform HTML5 applications exclusively using C# and XAML.