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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Developing a Windows Store app- Kieran Mockford, John Sheehan
- Windows 8, Windows Store app, Windows Runtime, XAML, WinJS, Contracts, WindowsContent
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-125
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 11:45AM to 12:45PM
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This session provides an end-to-end overview of the platform for Windows Store apps and the tools used to develop them.
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Core technologies for Windows 8 games- Chas Boyd
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, Gaming, Touch, Windows Runtime, JavaScript, C/C++, .NET, Graphics, Networking, WindowsContent
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-107
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 2:15PM to 3:15PM
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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...
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1+1=3: Using app contracts to integrate with Windows 8 experiences- Jaime Rodriguez
- Windows 8, Windows Store app, Windows Runtime, Contracts
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-100
- Day 1
- October 30, 2012 from 5:45PM to 6:45PM
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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... -
The story of state: AppData, settings, and the process lifecycle- Kraig Brockschmidt
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, Windows Runtime
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-126
- Day 2
- October 31, 2012 from 1:45PM to 2:45PM
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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... -
Gaming reimagined: Gaming case studies- Justin Saint Clair
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, Gaming, Windows Runtime, DirectX
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-111
- Day 3
- November 1, 2012 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM
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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... -
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... -
The Windows Runtime Q&A- Chris Anderson, Jerry Dunietz, Chris Guzak, Martyn Lovell, Kamen Moutafov, Elliot H Omiya
- Windows 8, Windows Store apps, Windows Runtime
- 300 - Advanced
- 3-141
- Day 4
- November 2, 2012 from 12:45PM to 1:45PM
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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...
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