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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Bringing existing C++ code to Windows Store apps- Tarek Madkour
- Windows Store apps, C++
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-000
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 11:45AM to 12:45PM
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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++...
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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... -
Connecting C++ Apps to the Cloud via Casablanca- Niklas Gustafsson, Artur Laksberg
- C++, Windows Azure
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-003
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 5:45PM to 6:45PM
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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... -
It’s all about performance: Using Visual C++ 2012 to make the best use of your hardware- Don McCrady, Jim Radigan
- C++
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-013
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 11:15AM to 12:15PM
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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,...
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DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2012- Rong Lu
- Visual Studio, C++, DirectX
- 200 - Intermediate
- 2-032
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 1:45PM to 2:45PM
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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... -
Diving deep into C++ /CX and WinRT- Marian Luparu
- Windows Store apps, C++
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-010
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 5:15PM to 6:15PM
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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...
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Tips for building a Windows Store app using XAML and C++: The Hilo project- Scott Densmore
- Windows Store apps, C++, WindowsContent
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-001
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 10:15AM to 11:15AM
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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....
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The Future of C++- Herb Sutter
- C++
- 200 - Intermediate
- 2-005
- Day 4
- November 2, 2012 from 12:45PM to 1:45PM
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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.
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