At Build, we'll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more. Join us on the Microsoft Campus for 4 days of extraordinary presentations delivered by the engineers behind the products and services to get you up to speed.
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Build 2012 Day 1 Keynote
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Day 1
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Oct 30, 2012 at 9:00AM
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...
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BUILD 2012 Day 2 Keynote
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Day 2
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Oct 31, 2012 at 9:00AM
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,...
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Building Connected Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch
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...
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Building Windows 8 LOB apps
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...
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Deep Dive into the Kernel of .NET on Windows Phone 8
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,...
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Advanced Cloud Services Development
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...
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Data Options in Windows Azure. What's a developer to do?
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,...
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Writing Windows Store apps with jQuery
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.
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Windows Phone 8: Using C++ in your Applications (Repeat)
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...
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Windows Phone 8: Using the Speech API
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...
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Windows Phone 8: Application Model (Repeat)
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...