Building great Metro style gallery apps today

Date: September 15, 2011 from 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Day 3
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Speakers: Ed Averett
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Customers love using apps that evoke strong emotional connections like viewing photos and playing music. Come learn how, in a few lines of code, you can build Metro style "gallery" apps such as photo viewers, music players and doc readers. Learn how Windows helps you enumerate files and work with thumbnails and metadata to build compelling and responsive views of files in your app. Walk away with the knowledge to build a simple gallery app or a powerful custom solution that leverages the file system.

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- Metro style apps,
- Files

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Kaboom

Sep 16, 2011 at 10:31 PM quote reply

Simplifying photo app creation + organization - thanks!

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