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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The power of C++ - Project Austin app- Ale Contenti
- Windows Store apps, C++, DirectX
- 400 - Expert
- 4-001
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 2:15PM to 3:15PM
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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... -
Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines- John-David Dalton, Amanda Silver
- JavaScript
- 400 - Expert
- 4-000
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 11:15AM to 12:15PM
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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... -
Using media extensions to build great video playback apps- Richard Fricks, Matthew Howard, Marcin Stankiewicz
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, Media
- 400 - Expert
- 4-104
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 3:30PM to 4:30PM
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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. -
Performance tips for Windows Store apps using XAML- Kiran Kumar
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, XAML, Performance
- 400 - Expert
- 4-103
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 5:15PM to 6:15PM
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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...
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Performance tips for Windows Store apps using DirectX and C++- Max McMullen
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, C/C++, Performance, DirectX
- 400 - Expert
- 4-102
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 8:30AM to 9:30AM
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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... -
Continuous Integration with Windows Azure Websites- Justin Beckwith, Johnny Halife
- Windows Azure
- 400 - Expert
- 4-002
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 10:15AM to 11:15AM
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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... -
Deep dive into WinJS- Josh Williams
- Windows 8, HTML5, Windows Store app, WinJS, JavaScript
- 400 - Expert
- 4-101
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 10:15AM to 11:15AM
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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... -
Building mixed-language apps- Alan Ludwig
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, HTML5, Windows Runtime, XAML, C/C++, .NET
- 400 - Expert
- 4-100
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM
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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... -
Windows Azure Storage – Building applications that scale- Joe Giardino, Jai Haridas
- Windows Azure
- 400 - Expert
- 4-004
- Day 4
- November 2, 2012 from 10:15AM to 11:15AM
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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...
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