Missing .NET features in Metro style application?

Question

Mostly out of curiosity, I started programming a small \"Metro Style\" project in Visual Studio 2011, the one that was released in Windows Developer Preview. It combines XAML fo

Answer 1

http://dougseven.com/2011/09/15/a-bad-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-long-discussions/

My understanding is that it's just a subset; most of what is missing relates to synchronous operations (so I'm not surprised that Thread.Sleep() is gone). You'll also find things like 'File.Create' cannot be called synchronously.