Build 2012 Sessions

Tips for building a Windows Store app using XAML and C++: The Hilo project

Scott Densmore — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:58:00 GMT

In this talk, we will share 18 tips based on what we learned when building Hilo, a world-ready Windows Store app built using modern C++ and Windows XAML. Topics include C++ 11, asynchronous programming, live tiles, pages, touch, navigation, file system queries, suspend/resume, and localization. If you’re a C++ developer, then come learn about building Windows Store apps in C++ from other C++ developers with several tips to share.

TouchDevelop: A touch-first IDE for the Web created with TypeScript

Michal Moskal — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:06:00 GMT

TouchDevelop is a novel, touch-first IDE originally written as a Windows Phone 7 app using C# and XAML. TouchDevelop lets you create WP7, Win8 and Web-apps directly on your phone, tablet, or desktop. Trying to build the JavaScript version, both for Win8 and the Web, we were frustrated by the complete lack of compile-time checking. We thus got very excited to be one of the very early adopters of TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic JavaScript.

Diving deep into C++ /CX and WinRT

Marian Luparu — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:06:00 GMT

Learn all about the new component extensions to C++, that help target the Windows Runtime Library. Learn when to use WRL directly and when to use the components extension. This talk is for you if you want to understand all the nitty-gritties of the language, semantics and best practices when creating your own WinRT component for reuse in your Windows Store Apps.

Performance tips for Windows Store apps using XAML

Kiran Kumar — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:06:00 GMT

Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) offers a wealth of features that enable developers and designers to build more and more amazing and complex apps. But with great power comes great responsibility. Come learn the tricks to keeping your XAML-based Windows Store apps smooth and responsive, and find out about tools to light your way if you should find yourself in the dark!

Introduction to creating Windows Store apps using HTML and JavaScript

Chris Anderson, Josh Williams — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:06:00 GMT

In this talk we'll cover the basics of creating a Windows Store app experience using HTML and JavaScript, including the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS). Topics will include how to leverage your existing HTML and JavaScript skills, how to integrate Windows 8 personality and contracts into your app, and how Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 provides tools to make this easy and fast.

The Microsoft design language

Will Tschumy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:06:00 GMT

Windows 8 is Windows reimagined. To that end, Microsoft developed five principles that drove the experience design decisions for Windows 8. This talk will describe each of these principles and how they relate to each other. It will also give you concrete guidance on how to apply these principles in your own apps.

Bringing existing C++ code to Windows Store apps

Tarek Madkour — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:05:00 GMT

This talk will cover how to use C++ to target the new Windows Runtime surface. Beyond just learning how to write apps in C++, you will see how to create new libraries or reuse existing components that you can seamlessly combine with Windows Store apps using JavaScript, C#, and other C++ apps.

Core technologies for Windows 8 games

Chas Boyd — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:06:00 GMT

Windows 8 provides a rich set of core technologies that are vital to creating top-selling games. You will hear about the three programming languages for games (JavaScript, C#, C++), and the game genres most easily created in each. For JavaScript developers we will cover interpreted performance of the runtime. For C# developers we will cover the differences between the .NET Runtime and the Windows Runtime. For C++ developers we will cover the new models for high-performance graphics, threading, storage, and networking. We will also show how your title can use a broad range of input technologies like touch, mouse, keyboard, accelerometer, and Xbox controller, so that users can play anytime, anywhere.

Building Windows 8 LOB Apps (Repeat)

Kushal Shah — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:29:20 GMT

Windows Store apps provide new opportunities for enterprises to make line-of-business (LOB) apps that are complex yet user friendly, touch centric, fast, and fluid. Learn about LOB scenarios that are a great fit for Windows Store apps. Also, learn about the management, design, and development platform capabilities for building these apps.

HTML5 & CSS3 latest features in action! (Repeat)

David Rousset — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:27:06 GMT

n this session, you learn more about the new standard features available in Internet Explorer 10, including grid layout, IndexedDB, and AppCache. We'll use simple code examples to see these features in action in real-world websites and apps!

Windows Phone 8: Application Model (Repeat)

Andrew Clinick — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:27:00 GMT

Windows Phone 8 dramatically expands the ways in which developers can build applications and games, by adding several new programming models, and also expanding the application model to support a broader set of developer scenarios. Andrew will explore these in depth and give you the information you need to get started building applications that leverage these features today.

Preshow Day 1

Jordan Rudess — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:37:00 GMT

Pre-keynote entertainment with Jordan Rudess

Windows Phone 8: Enterprise Development

Cliff Strom, Shawn Henry — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

For decades, Microsoft has endeavored to create development platforms that meet the needs of the enterprise world. In Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone adds several new features that mean its more ready to deliver on these scenarios than ever before. Andrew will explore these in depth.

Windows Phone 8: App to App Communication

Sean McKenna — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

A fantastic new feature for developers in Windows Phone, is the ability to register your application to handle specific protocol schemes; this process will enable other applications to launch your application with parameters that denote specific behavior, much like our own launchers and choosers. Sean will go in depth on how the feature works, and how you can best leverage it in your applications.

Windows Phone 8: Wallet and Deals for Developers

Matthias Baer — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

The Windows Phone platform has always been about giving developers the ability to expose their apps to users in compelling contextually relevant ways. In WP8, we're adding the Wallet, a new centralized hub for applications that provide users quick and easy access to financial services and loyalty programs. Come to this session to learn all about the Wallet, how it works, and how you as a developer can leverage all of its power.

Windows Phone 8: Using the Speech API

F Avery Bishop — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Most people would agree that speech can be the ultimate input mechanism. Windows Phone demonstrated this: many of the first party experiences could be driven by speech in our first two releases. In WP8, we've made speech extensible, and given you the ability to leverage it a number of compelling ways within the context of your app. In this session, we'll show you everything you need to know.

Windows Phone 8: Using C++ in your Applications (Repeat)

Peter Torr — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

C++ isn't only for games! There are a large number of scenarios where you may want to leverage it in developing for Windows Phone, particularly wherever you want to leverage code you've developed for other platforms. In this session, Peter Torr will walk you through these scenarios, and how to best execute on them.

Windows Phone 8: Using C++ in your Applications

Peter Torr — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Windows Phone 8: Native C/C++ Game Development (Repeat)

Sam George — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

You asked for it, and we are in the business of empowering our developers! Now you can build games leveraging the same C/C++ source you leverage to deliver games on other platforms. This session will introduce you to the implementation of native C/C++ programming for building Windows Phone games.

Windows Phone 8: Photo and Lens Apps

Eric Bennett — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Windows Phone 8 creates a new extensibility point in the form of the 'lens'; an application that plugs directly into the 1st party viewfinder experience. Eric will show you how lenses work, and how to build your own lens apps.

Windows Phone 8: Performance & Optimization for Developers

Oren Nachman — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Performance continues to be the holy grail that all developers seek to attain, no matter what platform you're on. Windows Phone performance expert Oren Nachman will spend this hour walking you through some of the architectural underpinnings of Windows Phone, and how they provide you guidance in building a high performing application

Windows Phone 8: Maps, Location, and Background Execution for Developers

Adina Trufinescu, Mike O'Malley, Cristina del Amo Casado, Daniel Estrada Alva — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Some of the most compelling applications on the phone are those that leverage maps and location, and in Windows Phone 8, we've added the capability for developers to write applications that perform turn-by-turn navigation operations in the background. This session will demonstrate how to use these features, and will also talk about the new Maps control.

Windows Phone 8: Making Money with Your Application on Windows Phone

Todd Brix — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Microsoft has a long history of building ecosystems in which many partners can build thriving businesses; in this session Todd will talk in depth on what you can do to maximize the money earning potential of your applications on Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8: Networking, Bluetooth, and NFC Proximity for Developers

Tim Laverty — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Networking in Windows Phone 8 has taken dramatic leaps and bounds; developers can now access bluetooth and leverage NFC to build compelling new applications scenarios. Tim will talk about these in depth, and show you how to do this.

Windows Phone 8: Critical Developer Practices for Delivering Outstanding Apps

Stefan Wick — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Stefan Wick is a Test Manager in Windows Phone working on our development platform, and has seen it all. He knows what common problems developers hit when building for Windows Phone better than almost anyone. In this session, he'll walk you through the common pitfalls in detail and set you up for immediate success in your own application efforts.

Windows Phone 8: In App Purchase & Developer Center

Arvind Ladha, Zac Woodall, Saral Shodhan, Tyler Furtwangler — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

In-App purchase is _the_ critical monetization mechanism for developers today on mobile devices, and in Windows Phone 8, we've added comprehensive support that open a new world of opportunity to developers. We'll discuss this feature in depth in this session, and also talk about our new developer portal all up.

Windows Phone 8: XAML Application Development

Shawn Oster — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:14 GMT

Windows Phone has always been about building outstanding apps and games using XAML to design and execute on an outstanding UI layer that integrates tightly with the Windows Phone Design system. In this session, Shawn Oster will walk you through what's new for XAML programmers in Windows Phone 8.

Windows Phone 8: Native C/C++ Game Development

Sam George, Ross Odwyer — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:13 GMT

Nokia Music Windows Phone 8 App-to-App APIs

Matthew Cooper, Steve Robbins — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Join us as we explore Nokia Music’s new app-to-app APIs. In this session we’ll explain the new app-to-app feature in Windows Phone 8, how to code for Nokia Music app-to-app APIs and show real-world examples. During this talk we’ll show developers how to use Nokia Music in order to get music content into their apps. We’ll deep-dive into code samples using these new Nokia Music APIs, discuss the design decisions behind them and help you code for them as part of your apps. We’ll also have a few Nokia developer announcements during the talk.

How to Leverage your Code across WP8 and Windows 8 (Repeat)

Doug Rothaus, Andrew Byrne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Windows Phone 8 is built on the same shared core as Windows 8, and this means that developers have the opportunity to deliver applications to both, leveraging much of the same knowledge, tools, code, and assets. In this session, we'll walk through the best practices on how to maximize your code reuse in building applications that target both Windows Phone and Windows 8

Windows Phone 8: Tiles, Lock Screen, and Notifications

Thomas Fennel — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

There is perhaps no developer feature that more signifies the unique interaction model of Windows Phone better than the Live Tile. In Windows Phone 8, we're making it easier for you to do more with Live Tiles, and we're also providing deelopers the ability to drive the lock screen notifications and wallpaper. Thomas Fennel will give you all the details on what's new and how to leverage these features in your apps

Windows Phone 8: HTML5/IE10 for Developers

Jorge Peraza, Rick Xu — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Windows Phone 8 includes the powerful IE10 web browser, and its web browser control. This means that developers can leverage the full power of IE10 to deliver outstanding experiences, either hosted online or in the context of a XAML application. Jorge Peraza will walk you through what's new in Windows Phone 8, and how to maximize the impact of your applications and games that leverage HTML.

How to Leverage your Code across WP8 and Windows 8

Doug Rothaus, Andrew Byrne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Windows Phone 8: Application Model

Andrew Clinick — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Building Hybrid Applications using the Windows Azure Service Bus

David Ingham — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:39:57 GMT

In this session, you will learn how the messaging capabilities of Windows Azure Service Bus can be used to interconnect services and apps running in the cloud and on-premises to create reliable, loosely-coupled, hybrid systems. In addition to providing a general introduction to Service Bus and covering recent enhancements to the service, the session will present architectural concepts and code samples showing how to build a real cross-platform hybrid application using Service Bus and other messaging components. As part of that, you’ll see how the industry standard AMQP 1.0 protocol supported by Service Bus makes it simple to integrate components developed using a broad range of programming languages and frameworks, running on a variety of operating systems.

Workflow & Workflow Manager 1.0: What’s New, What’s Coming

Dave Cliffe — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:39:57 GMT

What’s new in Workflow? Where’s Workflow headed? Come learn about the Windows Workflow Foundation capabilities in .NET 4.5 and the new Workflow Manager 1.0, including support for SharePoint Server 2013 & Office 365 workflows. You’ll hear from the team about where we’ve been investing and what we’re working on for the future.

Build 2012 Day 1 Keynote

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT

During the Build 2012 day 1 keynote Steve Ballmer, CEO, Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president and chief evangelist, developer & platform evangelism and Kevin Gallo, director of program management, Windows Phone, showcased the developer opportunities on Windows 8 and discussed momentum in the Windows Store with partners like Disney, LEGO, PayPal, Dropbox, and ESPN all demonstrating their latest Windows 8 apps.

The Windows Runtime Q&A

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

The Windows Runtime provides the foundation for building Windows Store apps. This panel includes experts from across the Windows Runtime technologies, who can help you build great apps for Windows 8. Whether your app is in C++, C# or JavaScript, and whether you use HTML, XAML or DirectX, we’ll answer questions on how to make the fastest, smoothest, most powerful Windows Store apps.

Developing highly-available, scale-out applications for Windows Server 2012

Elden Christensen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Learn how to build applications that leverage the power of the Failover Clustering features in Windows Server 2012 to deliver your application the highest levels of availability. This session will cover the options available for you to build and configure applications to achieve automatic failover, considerations when building on top of Microsoft’s clustered file system (CSVFS), and how to deliver increased availability when running your application on a private cloud by leveraging Guest Clustering and the new VM Monitoring feature.

Create Cross-platform Apps using Portable Class Libraries

Daniel Plaisted — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Learn how to create an app with versions for the Windows Store, Windows Phone, and other platforms, using the new Portable Class Libraries support in Visual Studio 2012 to share code between the different versions of the app. We will see how the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (MVVM) is ideally suited to sharing code between platforms since it encourages a clean separation between the app logic, which can be shared, and the UI, which is platform-specific. We’ll see how to access non-portable functionality from portable code by creating a portable abstraction with platform-specific implementations. We will see several real-world demo apps, and touch on more advanced concepts such as navigation, inversion of control, and synchronizing data across multiple clients with Windows Azure Service Bus. To maximize your benefit from this session, having some prior experience with XAML-based apps and the MVVM pattern is recommended.

Windows Azure Storage – Building applications that scale

Jai Haridas, Joe Giardino — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Are you interested in learning how to efficiently store petabytes of data? Write a social app that scales to billions of users? Build messaging that scales in distributed applications? Build a Windows 8 Application that stores data? If yes then this session is for you. It will cover what, when and how to use Windows Azure Tables, Blobs and Queues and go over patterns and practices that enable applications to scale.

Developing, deploying, and monetizing Windows Store games with Unity

Carl Callewaert, Mark T Morrison — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Unity Technologies supports desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms. Used by over 1.2 million developers and growing, Unity is one of the most popular middleware choices for game and app developers. Come and learn the easy ins and outs of using Unity for your Windows Store games and apps. Unity staff will present the process of leveraging existing Unity content to the Windows 8 platforms and explain how to get started with Unity to realize success in the Windows Store. This practical and easy-to-follow presentation will leave you with the knowledge you need to start and deliver Windows Store games with Unity.

Top tips for iOS devs building Windows Store apps

Aaron Hillegass — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

As an iOS developer, you know how to write mobile, touch-centric, connected apps that appeal and delight consumers, so you are positioned to take advantage of this green field Windows Store market and delight hundreds of millions of new users. Here we present the top tips from an iOS expert who is taking the leap into Windows Store app development.

Developing for Windows Azure Web Sites and SharePoint Online

Yochay Kiriaty, Thomas Mechelke — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Windows Azure Web Sites is a simple and powerful hosting platform that allows developers to easily build and rapidly deploy web applications on Windows Azure using their favorite languages, frameworks, and tools. SharePoint Online brings the collaboration and productivity benefits of SharePoint to the Cloud. In this talk we start out demonstrating development and deployment of web applications using Windows Azure Web Sites. We will then show how to integrate web applications running on Windows Azure Web Sites with content and functionality from SharePoint Online. We will also walk through different development and deployment models for building Windows Azure Web Sites web applications that seamlessly integrate with SharePoint Online.

Unit Testing Windows Store Apps

David Starr — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

We know that effective automated developer testing is a cornerstone of successful app development. In Visual Studio 2012, we have enabled developers to use modern, agile techniques for developing and testing Windows Store apps written in C#/VB. In this talk, we will demonstrate how to apply existing best practices to effectively test your app in this new world. We also explore how to use highly iterative developer testing techniques like Test-Driven Development to create and test your app, using well-known patterns like MVVM and isolation.

Introduction to Xbox SmartGlass

Neil Black — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Xbox SmartGlass is a cross-platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android) application that allows for easy connection to an Xbox 360 console, discovery of content, and control of the Xbox. This session will cover how to create a SmartGlass-enabled title on the Xbox as well as use the Xbox SmartGlass SDK to develop a corresponding second screen experience. Learn the details of how you can use the SmartGlass platform to reach a large audience, drive more engagement with your app, and tap into a broad ecosystem.

Bootstrapping your Startup with Windows Azure

Johnny Halife, Michael Washam, Nathan Totten — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Learn how to launch your next big idea on Windows Azure with a shoestring budget. Through real-world examples and live coding you will see how composing your application with Windows Azure services empowers you to build quickly and release sooner all while keeping costs to a minimum.

Writing Windows Store apps with jQuery

Jaime Rodriguez, Mike Hosteler — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Because you can write Windows Store apps with HTML and JavaScript, you can reuse your existing jQuery skills and code to build them. In this session, we’ll share our best tips and some pragmatic advice for writing Windows Store apps with jQuery.

Data Options in Windows Azure. What's a developer to do?

Dave Campbell — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Remember the “good ‘ol days” when most developers developing data centric apps could take it for granted that they were going to use a relational database? Back then, the biggest question was, “What data access stack am I going to use?” Developers have a bewildering array of choice today – SQL, noSQL, key-value, document, and, by the way, there’s this Hadoop thing too. Windows Azure supports a variety of first and third party data storage and management options to provide the degree of choice developers expect. Rather than simply describing the various features and capabilities of these systems, this session will take an “application in” perspective. We’ll look at the data patterns and requirements of modern applications, then map these requirements to the capabilities of the various data management options offered in Azure. After this talk you will be able to make better architectural and implementation choices for your application.

Advanced Cloud Services Development

Haishi Bai — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:34 GMT

Come to learn how to build blazingly fast Cloud Services using new techniques and best practices. In this demo-loaded session, you’ll see how to put .Net 4.5, Windows Azure Caching, Windows Azure SDK, Server 2012 + IIS 8, CDN, Traffic Manager, as well as Service Bus at work to improve and maintain system performance under heavy loads. Get inspired by 6 interesting live demos showcasing a fun and powerful cloud, and start building your own Cloud Services today!

Deep Dive into the Kernel of .NET on Windows Phone 8

Subramanian Ramaswamy — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:33 GMT

The CoreCLR is the cutting-edge virtual machine at the heart of the .NET in Windows Phone 8. In this session, we'll dive deep under the covers of the .NET runtime engine and discuss some of our key innovations for .NET on Windows Phone 8. Topics will include our compiler in the cloud, WinPRT via .NET, Async and performance improvements.

Building Windows 8 LOB apps

Kushal Shah — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:33 GMT

Building Connected Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch

John Stallo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:32 GMT

With the recent addition of HTML5 support, Visual Studio LightSwitch remains the easiest way to create modern line of business applications for the enterprise. In this demo-heavy session, see how to build and deploy data-centric business applications that provide rich user experiences tailored for modern devices. We’ll cover how LightSwitch helps you focus your time on what makes your application unique, allowing you to easily implement common business application scenarios—such as integrating multiple data sources, data validation, authentication, and access control—as well as leveraging Data Services created with LightSwitch to make data and business logic available to other applications and platforms. You will also see how developers can use their knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript to build touch-centric business applications that run well on modern mobile devices.

Windows 8 Connectathon with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Josh Twist — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:31 GMT

Join us for a session packed with live coding, as Josh Twist builds a Windows 8 application and brings it to life with the connected power of Windows Azure Mobile Services. We’ll look at how easy it is to add authentication, secure structured storage and even send push notifications to update live tiles and more!

Chalk Talk: Media apps

Marcin Stankiewicz, Matthew Howard, Todd Landstad — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:31 GMT

Do you have questions about scheme handlers, opening byte streams, or merging multiple sources? Come talk to the experts and get the answers you need.

Building world-ready Windows Store apps with HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Ben Riga — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:30 GMT

With the Windows Store you can publish your app in more than 200 markets, with a reach of over 4.5 billion people. To support that global reach, Windows 8 will ship with 109 languages and is designed to work better in more locales all over the world. With Visual Studio, it has never been easier to build an app that is world-ready. In this session we’ll show you how to localize your app by separating the code from any user interface text that must be translated. We’ll show you how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to globalize your app, so that it supports the cultural needs required by users around the world. Finally, we’ll show you the tools you need for testing and translating world-ready apps.

Javascript from client to cloud with Windows 8, Node.js, and Windows Azure

Nathan Totten — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:30 GMT

We are currently experience an exciting shift for JavaScript developers. For the first time, the Node.js and WinRT platforms along with modern browsers enable developers to write end-to-end applications in a single language that run on virtually any device. In this talk you will learn the fundamentals of building rich client side apps that utilize powerful server APIs all written in JavaScript. .

Getting Started with Cloud Services Development

Paul Yuknewicz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:30 GMT

Come to this session to learn how to create Platform-as-a-Service style (PaaS) cloud services in Windows Azure. See how to have simplified application deployment and configuration, high availability and scale and see how the platform can take care of administrative tasks such as OS patching and machine health. Learn how to configure web and worker roles, deploy software via startup tasks, debug and profile your apps and more!

Modern JavaScript

Luke Hoban — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:30 GMT

The last few years have seen JavaScript evolve in many significant ways. The language itself saw it’s first changes in 10 years with the introduction of ECMAScript 5. The runtime is now significantly more capable with access to binary data using Typed Arrays and multiple threads using Web Workers. And JavaScript can now be used in a wide range of Microsoft platforms, including Windows Store applications, Windows Azure applications using Node.js, and of course rich web applications on IE10. In this talk, we’ll take a look at the modern JavaScript that is now available across these Microsoft platforms and the rich standards-based JavaScript applications that can be built on top.

Analytics for Windows Store apps

Pete Fransen, Richard Fricks, Roger Woods — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:30 GMT

Analytics is an important part of creating a successful product. Understanding how consumers are using your app gives you the ability to make customer focused, data driven decisions. But it doesn't stop there. Being able to measure and improve the quality of your app and understand how it's being adopted compared to other apps are also important. In this talk, we'll look at the different analytic data that you can use to find this information for your Windows Store app.

Touchscreen and stylus and mouse, oh my!

Jeff Burtoft — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:28 GMT

Build your app to support all input types from the ground up! Windows Store apps offer a new approach to user input, and this session will share key insights for developing your app to support a variety of input types at the same time. Whether it's keyboard, mouse, touch, stylus, or other unconventional inputs, we’ll help your app be "all in" on inputs.

Media app case studies

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:28 GMT

This panel discussion will provide insights from developers who have created rich media apps for Windows 8. Find out how these developers have used the media extensions to create robust apps that meet their business and technical needs.

Developing Big Data Analytics Applications with JavaScript and .NET for Windows Azure and Windows

Matt Winkler — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:28 GMT

In this session we will discuss key aspects of using non-JVM languages in the Hadoop environment with Microsoft HDInsight. First, we will show how we can reach to a much broader set of developers by enabling JavaScript support on Hadoop. The JavaScript API lets developers define Hadoop jobs in a style that is much more natural; even to those who are unfamiliar to the Hadoop environment. The second aspect is how we can bring Hadoop to .NET developers using C# and F# while taking advantage of language features like LINQ. The final aspect is showing how we have enabled developer tooling directly in the common environments developers are using, including a lightweight Web interface that leverages HTML5 for quick data analysis, and tooling inside the Visual Studio IDE to interact with a Hadoop installation.

Building Services for Any Client with ASP.NET Web API

Daniel Roth — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:28 GMT

There are more exciting client platforms available to run your applications than ever before. Whether you are targeting your application at phones, tablets, or browsers virtually every great client application needs a great backend. Come see how ASP.NET Web API, a new framework for creating HTTP services, can help you reach any device. In this talk you’ll see how to support multiple formats, including JSON, XML and even OData. You’ll see how to add rich query semantics over your data using the OData query syntax. You’ll see how to secure your web APIs using a variety of protocols including OAuth. Every public web API needs great developer documentation and I’ll show you how ASP.NET Web API makes generating rich help pages easy. I’ll show you how ASP.NET Web API works great for building backend services for your Windows 8 apps and gives you the power and flexibility to build your web APIs your way.

Testing Untestable Code with Stubs and Shims in Visual Studio 2012

David Starr — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:28 GMT

One of the most challenging things developers face when unit testing their code is writing good tests that exercise only the parts they want to test. Dependencies outside your code are the number-one cause of slow, brittle unit tests. In this talk, we go deep on a new set of features in Visual Studio 2012 that helps you create better isolated, faster running and more dependable unit tests. Using real code examples, we will show you how Fakes can help you get those hard-to-test things tested, and provide guidance on how and when to use it. We will also take a look at some of the new capabilities available in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 to help unit test server-side SharePoint code.

Building mixed-language apps

Alan Ludwig — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

The Windows Runtime allows developers to build high performing apps using the language of their choice. It also allows for combining components written in different languages in the same app. In this session, we'll focus on the issues you might encounter when developing Windows Runtime components and mixed-language applications.

Gaming reimagined: Gaming case studies

Justin Saint Clair — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

Windows 8 enables developers to reimagine gaming experiences. The platform provides a wealth of popular games as well as game development technology and capabilities that are changing the gaming landscape. Learn from the industry’s top developers who made the transition, and share their experiences. Learn from Unity, the makers of Unity3D, about gaming middleware and component development on the Windows Runtime (WinRT). Hear from Arkadium about the experience of bringing the most played games of the past, like Solitaire and Minesweeper, to the new Windows platform. Find out from Halfbrick what it took to bring top-selling titles like Fruit Ninja and Jet Pack Joyride from other platforms to Windows 8.

Windows Azure Internals

Mark Russinovich — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

Mark Russinovich goes under the hood of Microsoft’s cloud OS, Windows Azure. Intended for developers who have already gotten their hands dirty with Windows Azure and understand its basic concepts, this session gives an inside look at the architectural design of Windows Azure’s compute platform. Learn about Microsoft’s data center architecture, what goes on behind the scenes when you deploy and update a Windows Azure app, and how it monitors and responds to the health of machines, its own components and the apps it hosts. Mark also highlights recent enhancements and how the platform implements some of the latest features.

Writing Windows Server 2012 Applications to leverage the file based shared storage

Mathew George — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

You can now use the power of SMB 3.0 for application storage. No longer needing to rely on direct attached storage, you can now seamlessly integrate your applications storage with SMB shares and take advantage of a host of new storage features such as storage spaces, SMB transparent failover and more to increase application performance, flexibility and agility.

Building Real-time Web Apps with ASP.NET SignalR

Damian Edwards — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

Websockets is introducing web developers to a whole new world of real-time programming but that isn’t the end of the story. SignalR gives ASP.NET developers the ability to build real-time web apps that work both with and without websockets and with an API so easy to use it almost seems like magic (really). You want scale too? No problem; SignalR scales out with your application. Come and see why web programing will never be the same again.

Developing an app for SharePoint autohosted in Windows Azure Web Sites with an autoprovisioned Windows Azure SQL Database

Maxim Lukiyanov, Thomas Mechelke — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

This session will focus on developing applications for SharePoint that auto-provision in Azure. We will examine the full lifecycle for these apps, including use cases, tooling for developers, publishing to the App Catalog, and Azure/licensing considerations. Through code and demonstrations, attendees will see a real world application progress from idea inception to App Catalog deployment.

Building Awesome HTML apps in Blend for Windows 8 (Repeat)

Kirupa Chinnathambi — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

Embrace the Windows 8 design principles by taking full advantage of the rich feature sets offered by both Blend and Visual Studio. Learn how to start from scratch and have a fully functioning (and visually appealing!) application that highlights how to work with styles, controls, data sources, layout, CSS3 transitions, web services, and many other features that help you create a better user experience with greater productivity.

Developer Productivity with Visual Studio & TFS 2012

Jamie Cool — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

With Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 there have been a lot of improvements to make developer productivity & collaboration even easier. We will walk the gamut of those changes, from new features like code review to core improvements like taking your source code offline without hassle & improved source merging. Want to use Git locally & TFS version control on the server? We’ll show you how. We’ll walk through how VS 2012 helps you understand your code better & provide a glimpse of what’s coming to make it even better. If you’re a developer using TFS & VS, this talk is for you.

Deep dive into WinJS

Josh Williams — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

To build great Windows Store apps with the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS), it helps to start thinking about things like activation and Process Lifetime Management as early as app conception. This talk covers key concepts to keep in mind while you structure your app, and it also offers some tips and tricks for handling asynchrony and data binding.

Continuous Integration with Windows Azure Websites

Johnny Halife, Justin Beckwith — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

Windows Azure enables developers to use a variety of workflows to automatically deploy code from the tools you’re already using, like TFS, CodePlex, and GitHub. This talk will focus on the various ways to deploy your projects to Windows Azure Web Sites, including git deployment, TFS deployment, continuous integration and custom scripts. Come join us and check out how easy it is to deploy your ASP.NET, Node, and PHP applications to the cloud.

XAML list controls

Terry Adams — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

XAML list controls support a large number of scenarios and have advanced functionality. This presentation reviews the XAML list controls and the functionality that they provide out of the box. In addition, it looks at more advanced features and scenarios, including grouping and Semantic Zoom.

From zero to hero! Building a Windows Store game in HTML5

Giorgio Sardo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:24 GMT

In this session you'll learn how to build Windows Store games with HTML and JavaScript, using the Windows Runtime and the hardware sensors on the newest devices. Expect to see a lot of code and learn best practices as we start from an empty project and build up to a full game!

Windows Azure Active Directory: enabling single sign on and directory services for cloud SaaS apps

Vittorio Bertocci — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:23 GMT

Active Directory enabled generations of developers to focus on their business applications features rather than worrying about identity management. Windows Azure Active Directory is Active Directory reimagined for the cloud, designed to solve for you the new identity and access challenges that come with the shift to a cloud-centric, multitenant world. Come to this session to learn how to take advantage of Windows Azure Active Directory in your application. If you already have an investment in Active Directory and Visual Studio, you’ll discover that Windows Azure AD is a way of extracting even more value from your investment. If your solution runs on different platforms, you’ll appreciate how easily you can integrate with Windows Azure AD via open standard such as the SAML protocol and the REST based Graph API.

Introducing TypeScript: A language for application-scale JavaScript development

Anders Hejlsberg — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:23 GMT

In this session, Anders will introduce TypeScript, a new language and toolset that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application-scale JavaScript. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. TypeScript adds optional static types, classes, and modules to JavaScript to enable great tooling and better structuring of large JavaScript applications. The TypeScript compiler is Open Source and written in TypeScript. The compiler outputs standard JavaScript that runs in any browser or any host. The TypeScript language specification is available under the Open Web Foundation’s, Final Specification Agreement (OWFa 1.0).

DevOps: Integrating development and operations for the last mile velocity

Larry Guger — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:23 GMT

Getting the right information needed to fix a bug in production is key to reducing the mean time to resolution (MTTR). One aspect of the DevOps movement is targeted squarely on decreasing the friction between development and operations. By increasing the collaboration capabilities between System Center Operations Manager, Team Foundation Server, and Visual Studio Ultimate, Microsoft is making that data flow between the two faster and richer. In this session, learn how errors detected by Operations Manager can be automatically captured as part of the monitoring solution which is then sent to the development team with rich debugging data enabling rapid identification and resolution of problems using Visual Studio Ultimate and IntelliTrace. If you support applications in your organization you will want to see how we are easing problem resolution for healthy applications and happy users.

Windows Store device apps

Joseph Ngari — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:23 GMT

This session covers the ins and outs of building device apps. We'll talk about the new capabilities that make distributing your devices app easy. We'll also discuss the different components involved, including device metadata and, where necessary, drivers.

Performance tips for Windows Store apps using DirectX and C++

Max McMullen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:22 GMT

Everything about Windows 8 was designed with speed in mind, but it’s still easy to fall into common performance traps. This talk covers how to provide the best user experience possible in your C++/DirectX app. You’ll learn how to squeeze out every drop of performance and preserve battery life with your code by avoiding typical performance pitfalls. We'll talk about how to use new features in Direct3D 11.1 and Windows 8 to increase rendering performance on low-power GPUs.

Tips and tricks for developing connected applications

Dave Thaler — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:22 GMT

Most Windows Store apps will be connected, using the network for some purpose. This talk addresses questions about connected apps that we’ve heard from you so far, and covers a set of tips and tricks that will help you provide a predictable and enjoyable experience for your users. This includes such topics as power-efficiency, securing connections, connecting streams, and discovering other nearby application instances.

Building world-ready Windows Store apps with XAML

Ben Riga — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:22 GMT

With the Windows Store you can publish your app in more than 200 markets, with a reach of over 4.5 billion people. To support that global reach, Windows 8 will ship with 109 languages and is designed to work better in more locales all over the world. With Visual Studio, it has never been easier to build an app that is world-ready. In this session we’ll show you how to use XAML to localize your app, by separating the code from any user interface text that must be translated. We’ll show you how to globalize your app so that it supports the cultural needs required by users around the world. Finally, we’ll show you the tools you need for testing and translating world-ready apps.

Alive with activity: Tiles, notifications, and background tasks

Kraig Brockschmidt — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:22 GMT

"Using Windows 8," as one commentator has written, "is like living in a house made out of Internet." The innovative Start screen of Windows 8 is alive with tiles that bring key information from apps into a unified view. Other notifications keep users informed and engaged, even when apps aren't running at all. In this talk we'll see the basics of notifications, as well as how to create web services for tile updates and how to work with the Windows Push Notification Service.

Kinect for Windows Programming Deep Dive

Rob Relyea — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:21 GMT

In this 300 level session, we’ll go deep into the aspects of building Windows Desktop apps & experiences with Kinect. We’ll also dig into the October update of the Kinect for Windows SDK and preview some future things.

Building end-to-end apps for SharePoint with Windows Azure and Windows 8

Rob Howard, Donovan Follette — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:21 GMT

With the deep SharePoint 2013 API set, coupled with the new app models for SharePoint and Office, the opportunity to build innovative end-to-end solutions that span cloud services and devices is just plain breathtaking. Devices can seamlessly reach into SharePoint via REST to retrieve data and SharePoint can fire events to light up your backend services – like sending notifications via the Windows Push Notification Service to SharePoint workflows. And all your cloud-based services can be powered by the reliability, scalability and elasticity of Windows Azure, from Web Sites to SQL Database. In this session an end-to-end demo is the backdrop for the discussion around the architecture and code needed to build just such a solution.

Diagnosing performance and memory issues in JavaScript-based Windows Store apps (Repeat)

Andrew Hall — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:19 GMT

The ability to create long running, rich applications using JavaScript and HTML5 can bring with it the need to solve memory leaks or improve the performance of JavaScript. In this demo-heavy session we’ll cover the tools available for finding memory leaks and improving the performance of JavaScript in Windows Store apps. We will cover both tools shipped in Visual Studio, and free tools released by the Windows team.

The developer’s guide to the SkyDrive API

Deepesh Mohnani — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:19 GMT

All Windows 8 users have a SkyDrive account where they can store their personal content. Microsoft is making a big bet on SkyDrive through deep integration with Windows, Microsoft Office, and Windows Phone. Come and learn how you too can integrate SkyDrive into your app, so your users can read and write documents, photos, and other files on their SkyDrive.

Key technologies for building advanced media apps

Mike Downey — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:19 GMT

Learn about tools and frameworks for developing Windows 8 apps that feature advanced media playback functionality such as streaming, DVR controls, advertising, and closed captioning. We focus heavily on the Microsoft Media Platform's Player Framework (playerframework.codeplex.com) which powers some of the largest live online streaming events.

Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part II

Chris Risner, Nick Harris — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:19 GMT

Now that you know about Windows Azure Mobile Services join us for this demo packed session to learn how to take your Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 apps to the next level. Learn how to extend your existing applications to support common scenarios such as geo-location, media, and cloud to device messaging using services from Windows Azure.

Building Big: Lessons learned from Windows Azure customers - Part II

Simon Davies, Mark Simms — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Millions of requests per day. Global coverage. Rapid feature deployments. Zero down time. These are the requirements of Windows Azure’s top customers. Using key Windows Azure features, such as compute, cache, CDN and traffic manager, you can quickly build services that meet the most demanding of workloads. From dealing with database scale-out, to world wide availability, this session will discuss and demonstrate the best architectural and coding practices from real live Windows Azure customer services and give you repeatable patterns to accelerate your own development.

The Evolution of .NET

Brandon Bray — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

.NET celebrated its ten year birthday earlier this year. In this talk, we’ll explore the technology and industry trends that have driven .NET’s evolution. We’ll cover support for new platforms, advancements in application performance, and support for emerging application architectures.

Designing awesome XAML apps in Visual Studio and Blend for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Repeat)

Jeffrey Ferman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Learn to embrace the design principles of both Windows 8 and Windows Phone by taking full advantage of the rich feature sets offered by the XAML design tools in Visual Studio and Blend. Using these tools, we will explore creating and sharing components between apps, designing for multiple resolutions, and consuming a common design pattern (MVVM). All of this in just one session!

Desktop apps: WPF 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012

Pete Brown — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

WPF is a great technology to use to build desktop apps for Windows. WPF 4.5, .NET 4.5, and Visual Studio 2012 include a number of targeted enhancements requested by our customers building data-intensive ISV and line-of-business apps in WPF, and for those who wish to share code with Modern apps for Windows 8. In this session, we'll demonstrate a number of the new features you can begin using today.

Using media extensions to build great video playback apps

Marcin Stankiewicz, Matthew Howard, Richard Fricks — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Use media extensions to make your Windows Store apps great! In this session, delve into topics such as media sources, media sinks, effects, memory management, async processing, and handling streams to help you create dynamic video playback apps.

Graphics with the Direct3D11.1 API made easy

Phil Napieralski — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Transitioning your graphics code from Win32 or Direct3D9 to Windows 8 may seem scary, but it’s more straight forward than you might imagine. In this session, we’ll show you how to code and debug your Windows Store app to ensure it runs across all Windows 8 and Windows RT devices in the ecosystem. Learn how Accuweather makes advanced use of Direct3D techniques where you least expect them, as their developer shares firsthand experiences of his transition to Windows 8.

Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part I

Josh Twist — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Watch Josh take a Windows Phone 8 application and light it up with cloud services to handle data, authentication and push notifications - right before your eyes with Windows Azure Mobile Services. Almost all demo and no slides, this session is designed to take you from zero to ZUMO (the codename for Mobile Services) in 60 minutes.

Building Big: Lessons learned from Windows Azure customers - Part I

Simon Davies, Mark Simms — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Advanced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Michael Washam — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Learn from a developers perspective how to use Windows Azure Virtual Machines to run your workload in the cloud. You will see how to automate virtual machines with the service management API and with tools from the Windows Azure SDK, PowerShell and the cross platform command line tools. Additionally, you will learn how to customize virtual machines to save time and money and deploy them in scalable and highly available configurations that can integrate with Windows Azure Cloud Services and Websites.

Apps for Office and SharePoint development using the all new browser-based “Napa” and Visual Studio 2012

Jim Nakashima, Saurabh Bhatia — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Office and SharePoint 2013 introduce a new app model that brings the best of web development to Office and SharePoint. Come see the low friction 0 to 60 experience we’ve built to onboard developers to this new app model including web based development tools codenamed “Napa” and Visual Studio 2012. Along the way, you’ll learn about apps for Office and SharePoint in the same hands on manner that our customers will.

Diagnosing performance and memory issues in JavaScript-based Windows Store apps

Andrew Hall — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

What’s new in VS2012

Orville McDonald — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Software development continues to make great advances and so does Visual Studio. Come learn about the trends impacting software development and how you can take advantage of them with Visual Studio 2012. This talk provides a brief overview coupled with lots of demos to highlight how Visual Studio 2012 simplifies development, streamlines collaboration for teams, and helps you create apps that your users will love. Visual Studio 2012 helps you turn ideas into software; this session gets you started.

The story of state: AppData, settings, and the process lifecycle

Kraig Brockschmidt — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Windows Store apps are intended to be stateful, meaning that the user receives them with meaningful content already in place, even on first launch, across sessions, and across devices. Taking the point of view of the state itself, this session explores where that state lives, the different ways it's created and modified, and how it fulfills its purpose of supporting stateful apps.

Key technologies for building great reading experiences

Kathy Kam — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Come explore how Windows 8 enables you to build great reading experiences in HTML and XAML. Learn how to better acquire your data, and how to store and access your data to provide a great offline experience. Also, learn how best to adapt your content to the wide variety of form factors, from touch-enabled tablets to high-resolution laptops and PCs with keyboards and mice.

Introduction to creating Windows Store apps using XAML

Chris Anderson, Bede Jordan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

In this talk we'll cover the basics of creating a Windows Store app experience using XAML combined with C#, Visual Basic, or C++ code-behind. Topics will include how to integrate Windows 8 personality and contracts into your app, how Visual Studio 2012 tooling helps make this easy and fast, and some tips on how to integrate native DirectX 3D content into your XAML-based app!

Building Rich Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services

Mingfei Yan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

In this session we will provide an overview of the latest release of Windows Azure Media Services. With this set of video services built on top of Windows Azure, you can create and deliver rich media with a high-quality viewing experience on a global scale, to various platform and devices. We will introduce various client SDKs which can be used to consume Smooth Streaming content, and we will emphasize on how to build rich media applications on Windows 8 with HTML5 or XAML.

Designing rich media scenarios in your Windows Store app

Lora Heiny, Todd Landstad — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:15 GMT

Engaging with rich media—whether watching a movie, video chatting, or playing music—is one of the most prevalent and enjoyable things users do on their PCs. We cover design considerations for video/audio playback, share tips about common issues developers see, and present app options for advanced scenarios. Specifically we will spend time with X considerations for any app with video/audio playback, examining performance tips learn more about background audio support.

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2012

Rong Lu — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:14 GMT

Visual Studio 2012 brings the most significant set of improvements for developing graphics-intensive apps in over a decade. Whether you are just getting started with 2D/3D games or you’ve been slinging vectors and models for years, there's something for you in this talk. We will walkthrough a set of new tools integrated into Visual Studio 2012 that can help you visualize graphics assets, author shaders easily, diagnose through graphics issues, and more.

Kinect Design Considerations

Jay Kapur — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:14 GMT

Kinect for Windows enables all kinds of new apps & experiences. In this session we will cover our Human Interface Guidelines, interaction & use scenarios, and will discuss best practices for user interactions. We’ll also give a preview of some of the work we’re doing for the next major version of our SDK.

Introduction to Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Mark Russinovich — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

Join Mark Russinovich for a tour of the features that make up the Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks offerings, which collectively make up Windows Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support. Using demonstrations throughout, he explains the Virtual Machine storage architecture and shows how to provision and customize virtual machines, configure network connectivity between virtual machines, and configure site-to-site networks that enable true applications that span from on-premises to Windows Azure. He’ll focus specifically on features that enable you to create highly available Virtual Machine-based services and how to connect Virtual Machines with Cloud Services.

Application Lifecycle Management: It’s a Team Sport

Brian Keller — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

Microsoft’s application lifecycle management tooling is all about enabling teams to deliver great software. In this demo-packed session, learn how to engage early and often with your project’s stakeholders to ensure that your team is building the right software for them. Discover tooling to help you more effectively plan and track work by using the new web-based project management tools. Learn how to bridge the divide between development and operations by utilizing IntelliTrace in your production environments and integrating Microsoft System Center with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. And, developers can stay on-task and “in the zone” with the new “My Work” and code review features. In addition to making your team more productive, we show you how you can boost your overall code quality with new features such as code clone and an overhauled unit testing story in Visual Studio 2012.

Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines

John-David Dalton, Amanda Silver — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

You've probably heard about the radical gains in JavaScript performance in the latest crop of Internet browsers. In this talk, we'll discuss the key insights and optimizations implemented in browser JavaScript engines, such as Chakra in Internet Explorer 10 or V8 in Chrome. More importantly, we'll explore best practices for taking advantage of these optimizations in your code and learn how to pinpoint JavaScript performance problems using appropriate tools. Throughout the presentation, we'll cover tips, tricks, and tools for developing fast applications with JavaScript.

Lighting up Windows: From websites to apps

Can Comertoglu, Justin Garrett — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

The introduction of Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 8 provides developers with new challenges and unique opportunities. Learn how you can prepare your website for the best experience in Windows 8, and how to integrate your website with your Windows apps.

Security in Windows Store apps

Josh Dunn — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

Windows Store apps provide enormous flexibility for developers to craft dynamic, interactive apps that customers will love. However, there are some key "gotchas" that developers can avoid that will make their apps as secure as they are enjoyable. We will cover common coding patterns that can lead to vulnerabilities, how to properly handle customer data, and how to use capabilities.

Designing great reading experiences

Kyle Marsh — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:12 GMT

Come learn how to design great reading experiences for Windows 8. This session will cover key design elements for news, magazine, and book apps. We will step through the recommended user experience for managing an information hierarchy, filtering, getting tiles and notifications, using content layout and navigation, typography, and more.

How to make your applications manageable

Osama Sajid, Wojtek Kozaczynski — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:11 GMT

Learn how to leverage the new capabilities of WMI to build applications which generate events that can be used to monitor their behavior in real-time and (b) analyze the history of that behavior to find the root-causes of detected issues. Use CIM and WS-Man to define an object model-based interface of managed resources (device, driver, OS role, …) to actively control its state and behavior, implementing CIM indications based on the underlying eventing mechanism. Learn how to instrument applications to be monitored by System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), packaged and deployed via Server App-V and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), backed up by VMM, and automated by SCOM.

Windows Azure Overview

Scott Guthrie — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:11 GMT

Windows Azure is a flexible and open cloud platform for a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites to enterprise and mobile applications. In this session Scott Guthrie will demonstrate how to quickly build and deploy applications using the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure Web Sites, Virtual Machines, and new developer tools and SDKs.

Super-Natural Interaction

Andy Wilson — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:11 GMT

The natural interaction movement is gaining momentum. But why stop at “natural”? Spurred by advances in sensing and display technologies, we envision 3D, mixed and augmented reality interfaces that go beyond touch screen interactions. I will present a number of prototypes from our lab that give users new powers of interaction: super-natural interaction.

Don’t break the web: Why web standards matter and how to use them responsibly.

Rey Bango, Tyson Matanich — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:10 GMT

The Web community has come a long way in pushing for solid cross-browser standards support and it's incredibly important that as developers we focus on leveraging these standards in a responsible and practical way. In this talk, we'll discuss and learn about the standards process, the best practices for identifying and embracing stable standards, and how to leverage standards responsibly to build websites that are cross-browser and available to broad audiences. We’ll also hear some great lessons from the team that built Microsoft.com about their efforts to embrace standards and responsive design in the redesign of Microsoft’s flagship website.

Shopping app case studies

Can Comertoglu, Mark Hopkins, Montaque Hou, Peter Tang, Rich Kilmer — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:10 GMT

There are some great shopping apps currently in the Windows Store. These apps can take advantage of Windows platform features such as sharing, search, live tiles, and location, to provide unique and rich shopping interactions for users. Come listen to two Microsoft partners share their experiences developing top-notch shopping apps for Windows 8.

Making money with your app on the Windows Store

Drew Robbins — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:10 GMT

You've written a great Windows Store app for Windows 8 and you want to make the most of it. In this session, you learn how to integrate the Windows Store APIs for trial-conversion, feature differentiation, and in-app purchasing. You also learn how to include advertising opportunities in your app.

Developing a Windows Store app using C++ and DirectX

Phil Napieralski — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:10 GMT

Among all the choices that Windows 8 offers for developing Windows Store apps, only DirectX and C++ give you the “down-to-the-metal“ performance and flexibility available on modern tablets and PCs. This session will show you how to integrate Windows Store app features in your C++ and DirectX app. We'll cover things like creating an app bar, API support for monetization, handling live tiles and notifications, and registering Process Lifetime Management (PLM, or suspend and resume) events. And we'll also talk about the basics that are required for any app that includes DirectX.

1+1=3: Using app contracts to integrate with Windows 8 experiences

Jaime Rodriguez — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:08 GMT

App contracts are agreements between Windows 8 and your Windows Store app. They enable you to integrate your app with other apps, with devices, and with the operating system. For example, the Share contracts let users share content from one app to another. In this session, you'll learn how app contracts work and how to implement the built-in contracts such as Search, Share, Settings, and Play To.

Building Cross-Device Xbox Games

John Bruno, Avi Ben-Menahem — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:08 GMT

Cross-device gameplay provides publishers with a unique opportunity to reach and delight players on any device, at any time, wherever they are. This type of gameplay experience is going to be a fundamental part of future gaming on Xbox services. Come learn about the platform and experience components that the Xbox services are introducing as a means to help create the compelling cross-device experiences that people want to play with their friends, on the device of their choice!

Extending & customizing Dynamic Access Control

Dave McPherson — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:08 GMT

Learn how to development and deploy Dynamic Access Control extensions to further tailor and refine who can access information and to audit who has accessed information.

Building apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 using the web technologies you know and love, Part 2

Keenan Newton, Eray Chou — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:08 GMT

In part 2 of this 2 part series, we will take a deeper dive into apps for Office and SharePoint. This session will focus on authentication scenarios, user experience guidance and general best practices in developing apps for Office and SharePoint. This session will take the apps from Part 1, and enhance them so that they demonstrate the best practices and guidance outlined in this session.

Connecting C++ Apps to the Cloud via Casablanca

Niklas Gustafsson, Artur Laksberg — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:08 GMT

In this presentation, we will introduce you to Casablanca, a Microsoft incubation effort to explore how to best support C++ developers who need to take advantage of the radical shift in software architecture that cloud computing represents. With Casablanca, C++ developers get modern APIs based on C++ 11 with support for accessing and authoring REST services, asynchronous I/O libraries to support writing scalable and responsive code, and integrated Visual Studio experience for interacting with Azure to upload C++-based projects, native client libraries for accessing Azure storage, and an experimental C++ implementation of the Erlang actor-based programming model.

Key technologies for shopping apps

Santhosh Panchapagesam, Can Comertoglu — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:07 GMT

Not only do shopping apps have commerce-based transactions at their heart, they have great content that users care about. Learn about best practices for managing search results from large web based content libraries, user authentication options such as single sign-on, web authentication, how to optimize your content first experience, and how to integrate payment into your shopping app.

Xbox Live on Windows 8 Deep Dive

Brian Tyler — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:07 GMT

Xbox Live on Windows 8 provides a rich and robust set of APIs that enable game developers to accelerate the integration of Xbox services. This session is for developers who want to understand how we've taken advantage of the new Windows Runtime model to provide quick and easy access to Xbox services such as profile, achievements and leaderboards as well as value added scenarios, such as offline support, authentication and Windows integration. We dive into the code and design to ensure you walk away with the knowledge you need to quickly enable your Windows 8 games with the Xbox services.

Designing awesome XAML apps in Visual Studio and Blend for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Jeffrey Ferman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:07 GMT

Windows Store: how does it work?

Giorgio Sardo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:06 GMT

Are you planning to submit an app to the Windows Store? Did you already submit an app, but still have some open questions? In this session, you'll learn more about the end-to-end process to publish an app to the Store, including monetization options, submission flow and best practices, and certification tips and tricks.

Tips on self-evaluating the UX of your app

Lora Heiny — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:05 GMT

You want to make it easy for people to use your app and ensure that the user experience is outstanding. During this session, we'll show you how to evaluate your app based on Microsoft design style and UX guidelines. By assessing your app's design, you instill confidence in the product, and you provide an outstanding user experience that users will find useful, usable, and desirable.

New multi-touch, ink, and pen technologies that can revolutionize your apps on any size of screens

Jeff Han — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:05 GMT

Develop solutions that flow with your customers business - starting with individuals and information workers on their phones, desks or virtual offices, moving into conference rooms, brainstorm areas, boardrooms and common areas. Learn how Microsoft’s new pen and touch capabilities software and hardware will enable you to develop products that will help businesses be more efficient. Have a sneak peak on what our large multi-touch displays (82” and 55”) can bring to your solutions.

The power of C++ - Project Austin app

Ale Contenti — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:04 GMT

Project Austin is a show-case for C++ apps, and has caught fire in the press. It really captures the essence of the power of writing Windows 8 Apps in C++. The Visual C++ team leveraged DirectX, C++ AMP, PPL and WinRT to take advantage of the Windows 8 hardware (including stylus). Come and dive into the Austin codebase as we share tips and tricks we discovered along the way.

Building data centric applications for web, desktop and mobile with Entity Framework 5.

Rowan Miller — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:03 GMT

Never tried Entity Framework before? Or long term Entity Framework developer? Come learn how Entity Framework 5 makes it very simple to keep both your code and database in sync as you make changes using Code First and Migrations. Plus learn about many other enhancements including Designer improvements and support for new Enums and Spatial types. We will demonstrate how to use these new features to build modern applications targeting the web, desktop and mobile.

Building apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 using the web technologies you know and love, Part 1

Keenan Newton, Rolando Jimenez Salgado — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:02 GMT

In part 1 of this 2 part series, you will learn about the techniques used to build apps for Office and SharePoint. We will discuss the architecture and anatomy for apps for Office and SharePoint, the various types of apps, development techniques and hosting options that are available. Throughout this session we will demonstrate various apps for Office and SharePoint, while looking under the hood on how they work.

Building Awesome HTML apps in Blend for Windows 8

Kirupa Chinnathambi — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:02 GMT

Guidance for shopping apps

Mark Hopkins — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:01 GMT

Learn how to build great shopping apps for Windows 8. You can draw users into your app, with live tiles and notifications for things like deals and sale items. Your content shines in your app without any chrome, and enables users to be immersed in the experience that they care about.

Delivering Applications with RemoteFX in Windows Server 2012

Shanmugam Kulandaivel — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:01 GMT

Learn how to leverage the power of Windows Server 2012 RemoteFX to deliver your application on any Windows device - including RT, Surface, clients and mobile platforms. Developing your solutions to leverage the new capabilities of RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics enhances your reach, supports BYOD environments and enhances application security.

Powering your apps with Microsoft accounts

Shelly Guo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Windows 8 enables users to sign in to any device by using a single Microsoft account and continuously interact with apps across all their Windows 8 devices. Come see how you can provide your users with a seamless sign-in experience and instant personalization in your app. You will also learn how to use the Microsoft account service as an identity provider for your website and how to connect the Microsoft account service to your existing identity system.

Bleeding edge ASP.NET: See what is next for MVC, Web API, SignalR and more…

Jon Galloway, Scott Hanselman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

After shipping ASP.NET 4.5, we were already hard at work on the next version. Come learn about some of the awesome new features coming in our next release. We will show how to write Facebook apps, how to build real time apps, how to host your application in Windows Azure supporting your local Active Directory, enhancements to Web API with OData support and more….

Ask the experts panel: Connected apps

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Join us for a Q&A session on the networking functionality available to Windows Store apps. A panel of Windows experts will be on hand to answer questions from the audience on a wide range of networking issues related to creating Windows Store apps.

Building HTML 5 Web Apps with Visual Studio & ASP.NET

Mads Kristensen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Whether you’re building a new Website using ASP.NET or maintaining an existing one, you’ll leave this talk ready to use HTML5 & CSS3 on ASP.NET with Visual Studio. We’ll look at what HTML5 & CSS3 have to offer modern app developers and how you can use them with ASP.NET for rich Web apps both today and tomorrow.

The Future of C++

Herb Sutter — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

This talk will give an update on recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, with some announcements of interest in both areas. The speaker is the lead language architect of Visual C++ and chair of the ISO C++ committee.

Bing Maps for Windows apps

Chris Pendleton — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Mapping services have changed the way app developers pivot data, moving from tabular to spatially referenced visualizations. In this session we show you the new Windows Store Apps Map Controls and Services. We also cover the Bing Maps Application for Windows 8, linking protocols and Bing Maps licensing.

Key technologies for Windows Store business apps

Robert Green — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

In this session, we will answer some of the questions you may have as you plan your development of Windows Store line-of-business (LOB) apps. What are your options for accessing and storing data, both locally and remotely? What are your options for securing data? How do you authenticate users of an app, regardless of the device they are using and regardless of whether they are on or off premise? How do you test Windows Store apps on the device they will run on? How do you deploy Windows Store apps internally?

Monetizing your Windows 8 app with advertising

Ian Ferreira — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

An introduction and best practices for monetizing your Windows 8 app with advertising.

Easy Asynchrony with C#: No More Callbacks!

Mads Torgersen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Easy Asynchrony with C#: No More Callbacks! The Windows Runtime and .NET Framework 4.5 rely heavily on an asynchronous programming model to ensure the responsiveness of client apps and scalability of services. The new async feature in the C# and VB languagesmakes it easy to coordinate asynchronous functionality without callbacks, leaving the plumbing to the compilers. We’ll explore a simple sequential asynchronous Windows Store app, and build up to easily embrace cancellation, coordination of concurrent asynchronous activities and offloading of CPU-intensive work through the Task Parallel Library.

Deep dive on WinJS ListView

Mike Mastrangelo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

This session provides a walkthrough of how to create a JavaScript app using the ListView. We'll focus on aesthetics and function, finding ways to make your app beautiful and professional. We'll cover advanced features including selection, grouping, integration with Semantic Zoom, and multisized items.

Chalk Talk: Gaming and graphics apps

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Do you have questions about writing high-performance graphics apps using DirectX? Come and get the answers you need directly from the experts!

Ask the experts panel: Device apps

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

This is a Q&A session on Windows Store device apps. Windows Store device apps allow you to showcase your devices and provide a differentiated experience. This talk provides a brief introduction to Windows Store device apps, and points to a list of resources that are available online to write such applications. There will be a panel of Windows developers and program managers on hand, to answer questions from the audience on a wide range of issues related to their Windows Store device apps.

Angle Brackets, Curly Braces, One ASP.NET and the Cloud

Scott Hanselman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

One day we woke up and things were different. Maybe it happened overnight, maybe it took many years. Suddenly the ASP.NET Web Stack is open source, hosted using Git on CodePlex and taking pull requests from the Mono team. We can run node.js and Java alongside ASP.NET in the Azure Cloud and deploy them easily. The Visual Studio editor supports HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in a big way. ASP.NET ships not only the open source jQuery library out of the box but also KnockoutJS, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and Modernizr. The Azure SDKs are hosted on Github. We are scripting thousands of Virtual Machines from the command line while others are creating things today with JavaScript that were impossible yesterday. Join Scott Hanselman as he explores the relationship between the Cloud and the Browser, many Languages and one Languages, how it might all fit together and what comes next. Development is fun again.

Bridging the DEV-OPS gap with Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012

Kenneth Hansen, Hemant Mahawar — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Building high-quality code is essential, particularly once the application is deployed in production. DevOps is about making change safe through automation and bridging the gap between operators and developers. In this sessions, learn how Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Server 2012 can work together to improve deployment integration and application maintenance throughout the application lifecycle. Understand how to integrate the development and operations parts of your business by creating deployable applications and integrated Web Service-based customer portals

Chalk Talk: Reading and publishing

Kyle Marsh, Kathy Kam — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Do you have questions about how to create great reading experiences in your Windows Store apps? Come to this session to get them answered!

Graphics at the core of Windows 8 and your app

Shai Hinitz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Graphics grab our attention, keep us engaged, and bring apps to life more than anything else! Windows 8 supports the most modern graphics development technologies, such as HTML5, XAML, and Direct3D 11.1. In this session, you’ll discover the best way to add stunning graphics to your app. You will also see how you can leverage your existing tech skills and art assets to bring your app to life efficiently. Learn from the experiences of developers at Oceanhouse Media, who brought Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat to Windows 8.

It’s all about performance: Using Visual C++ 2012 to make the best use of your hardware

Don McCrady, Jim Radigan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

If you attend this talk, you will learn about the latest and greatest C++ performance features. All hardware being produced by Intel, ARM and AMD is now mulit-core with each core supporting a rich instruction set supporting vectorization of ordinary C++ that uses 128-bit registers. Additionally, on chip GPU’s are going through their 3rd iteration in many hardware product lines thus making general purpose computing on the GPU important. This talk provides an accessible overview of all the new hardware and how C++ allows the developer to take advantage of it. We start with the engineering of auto-vectorization and auto-parallelization for existing unaltered C/C++ programs, progress to PPL and then tie in the new C++ AMP language extensions. This is a “go-fast” talk that’s also a great intro into computer architecture and C++ compilers.

BUILD 2012 Day 2 Keynote

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Watch the Build 2012 day 2 keynote as Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business, speaks to thousands of developers about Windows taking developers across devices and into the cloud. Additional keynote presenters included Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president; Scott Hanselman, principal program manager; Dave Campbell, Microsoft Technical Fellow; Jason Zander, corporate vice president of development for the Windows Azure; Josh Twist, senior program manager, Windows Azure.

50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster

Jatinder Mann — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you can make your sites faster. This is the same team that brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript, and they will share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers.

Developing a Windows Store app

John Sheehan, Kieran Mockford — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

This session provides an end-to-end overview of the platform for Windows Store apps and the tools used to develop them.

Designing games for Windows 8

Shai Hinitz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:57 GMT

Discover how you can use Windows 8 to get players addicted to your game. Engage your players from the Windows 8 Start Screen with live tiles and notifications . Grow your community of players by sharing between games and other apps. Learn about modern gameplay interactions with new input options like touch, sensors, and controllers. Explore gameplay that scales, snaps, and pauses as it needs to, allowing multiple tasks to be performed at the same time.

What's New for Developers in Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013

Keenan Newton, Cyrielle Simeone — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:56 GMT

Office and SharePoint 2013 offer a lot of exciting new opportunities for the developer. This session will provide an overview of the new developer features for Office and SharePoint including apps, the new cloud app model, additional APIs for SharePoint full trust solutions and new features for the Office developer.

Developing Continuous Services : Real world experiences of the Team Foundation Service engineering team

Buck Hodges — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:55 GMT

Continuous services are rapidly emerging as essential ingredients of the portfolios of packaged software development and IT organizations. Continuous services enable organizations to extend the reach of their products and services at an internet scale. Whether investing in a new online delivery model for a product or enabling connected device experiences for existing solutions, continuous services are essential components of a software organization’s portfolio in the modern and always connected world. Internet scale, Always on and Continuously evolving are 3 top level traits that distinguish continuous services from conventional boxed products and IT applications. Transitioning from shipping long cycle time boxed products and IT applications to delivering continuously evolving internet scale services, requires a re-imagination of the conventional app lifecycle and development practices. The TFS team had followed a process of developing in milestones and shipping a boxed product every two to three years. In 2011, we commenced our transition to a continuous services cadence to deliver continuous customer value at a faster pace and extend the reach of our solution. We deployed our new online service (tfspreview.com) in April, 2011 and began the transformation to an online service team that also ships an on-premises server product. After struggling with large updates, we realized that shipping frequently would reduce risk and increase agility. We realized that the continuous delivery cadence could also be applicable and of value to our on-premises product rollouts. We now successfully ship the TFS service every three weeks, and we are beginning to ship the client and on-premises server updates at a quarterly cadence. In this session we describe our experience making these changes and what we have learned in the process of transitioning to the new delivery cadence.

HTML5 & CSS3 latest features in action!

David Rousset — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:05:00 GMT

In this session, you learn more about the new standard features available in Internet Explorer 10, including grid layout, IndexedDB, and AppCache. We'll use simple code examples to see these features in action in real-world websites and apps!