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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How to Leverage your Code across WP8 and Windows 8 (Repeat)
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...
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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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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: Wallet and Deals for Developers
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....
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Create Cross-platform Apps using Portable Class Libraries
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...
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Windows Phone 8: App to App Communication
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...
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Windows Phone 8: Enterprise Development
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.
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Nokia Music Windows Phone 8 App-to-App APIs
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...