BUILD2011 Sessions

Keynote #2

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:35:00 GMT

BUILD Day 2 Keynote

Keynote #1

Steven Sinofsky, Chris Jones, Antoine Leblond, Mike Angiulo, Julie Larson-Green — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:32:00 GMT

BUILD Day 1 Keynote

SPA 3.0 – A simple server performance tuning advisor

Kevin Chin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:44 GMT

Server Performance Advisor (“SPA”) 3.0 helps system administrators manage their server performance and troubleshoot server performance issues on Windows Server 2008 and later releases including Windows Server 8. SPA 3.0 provides system administrators with reports about common configuration and run-time performance issues to help them quickly identify resource bottlenecks on their servers. SPA 3.0 also provides recommendations based on rules, thresholds and best practices.

Using location & sensors in your app

Gavin Gear — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

Windows provides many powerful ways to sense information about the user's environment. Using this information, you can build an app that adapts to their environment easily and seamlessly. By the end of this session you will know how to program your app to use the sensors (motion sensors, sensor fusion, light sensors, and location) supported in Windows 8. Your customers will love the result!

Deep dive on app data roaming

John Sheehan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

You’ve seen how to create continuous app experiences that span devices and you’re ready to dive into the details. Come drill down on the APIs and cloud-based service that make it easy to save, restore, and roam your app’s data. You’ll learn the nuts and bolts of the system and get your questions answered by the team who designed and built these capabilities.

Building responsive apps and sites with HTML5 web workers

Travis Leithead — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

The new Web Workers API enables developers to execute JavaScript in the background concurrently with executing apps. This will improve the responsiveness of apps and will increase the amount of computation that a web app may perform. Learn how to take advantage of the Web Workers API to improve the performance of your apps today.

How to retrieve configuration and status information from USB printers in Windows 8

Mike Fenelon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

The version 4 printer driver model in Windows 8 introduces the concept of the USB Bi-Directional (BiDi) Port Monitor, which driver developers can extend using JavaScript. In this video learn how to retrieve configuration and status information from USB printers.

Testing mobile broadband devices

John Archer, Sumeet Mittal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

The Windows Hardware Certification program helps to ensure the quality, compatibility, and operation of mobile broadband drivers and device firmware with Windows 8. The Windows Hardware Certification Kit (HCK) helps to decrease connectivity times and lower power consumption. This video provides guidance on testing mobile broadband networking devices and also discusses improvements focused on shortening test runs and providing more visibility into test contents.

Testing Wi-Fi networking devices

Mark Clear, Sumeet Mittal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

This session will provide guidance on how to test and certify Wi-Fi networking devices with Windows 8. The session will focus on the improvements to the Wireless LAN Windows Logo Kit (WLK) Program used for device certification, and several other useful Wi-Fi testing tools.

Introduction to the streaming assessment

Charu Agrawal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:43 GMT

Watching streaming media greatly affects the user’s perception of their PC. In this video, you will learn about how the Assessment and Deployment Kit has made it easier to measure streaming media performance reliably and to identify areas where performance can be improved. You will learn about the streaming media assessment and what it measures, the types of issues it highlights, and how to use it to test and fix any streaming media performance issues you find.

Advanced driver code analysis techniques

Dave Sielaff — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

This session provides a deep discussion of advanced code analysis techniques, tips and tricks that help you reduce costs while increasing the quality of your drivers. You will learn how to use the updated Standard Annotation Language (SAL) to discover higher-quality bugs while reducing false positives. You will also learn about common programming errors and bugs such as race conditions and buffer over-runs, and how to take advantage of tools in Windows 8 to address these issues earlier in development cycles and at a much lower cost. This session will provide the opportunity to have an open discussion with Microsoft code analysis experts about your specific coding errors and issues.

Understanding Push Button Reset

Desmond Lee, Ruby Sharma — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

This session will provide an opportunity discuss how the new Push Button Reset feature in Windows 8 enables users to reset their PCs to a prior configuration (which may be the factory configuration) while keeping data and customizations intact.

USB Debugging Innovations in Windows 8 (Part I, II, & III)

Eliyas Yakub, Yang You, Philip Ries — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

The new USB 3.0 debugging tools in Windows 8 makes diagnosing USB device and driver issues much simpler. This video will cover USB 3.0 debugging technologies, as well as debugger extensions that provide detailed insights into the state of the USB controller and devices. This video contains demonstrations on how to use each one of these technologies for troubleshooting different situations.

Architecting and integrating sensor drivers

Gavin Gear — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

Windows 8 provides an extensive and feature-rich set of developer tools, documentation and drivers to simplify sensor integration and provide rich user experiences. With this level of support in Windows, manufacturers can quickly bring systems to market that take full advantage of light, motion and other sensors. This session will provide the information necessary for device and system manufacturers to integrate their sensors with Windows and take advantage of this rich platform.

Touch firmware development: Talking HID to Windows

Takahiro Shigemitsu, Mikki Durojaiye — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

This session will provide in-depth information to IHV firmware and driver developers on the new digitizer interface architecture in Windows 8. Through this session, you will learn how to use the HID protocol to make touch devices work well with Windows 8, ensure performance and accuracy, and determine bus requirements for touch-enabled hardware.

Improving battery life and energy efficiency

Charu Agrawal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

Offering long battery life is important for all mobile devices. This video will demonstrate how the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) has made it easy to consistently measure battery life, as well as identify and fix energy efficiency issues. Through this video session, you will also learn how to configure battery life assessments, and design assessment workflows, for multiple scenarios.

Scaling And Extending Windows Assessments To Improve System Quality (Part I & II)

Patrick Azzarello, Jason Cohen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:42 GMT

This video provides an overview on the assessment capabilities in Windows 8 that enable you to build better systems. Through this session, you will see how you can configure and run assessments on your machine, as well as on other machines via flash drives, and on machines in a large lab environment. For those interested in extending the assessment infrastructure, this video also provides a high-level view of how to repurpose or build customized assessments, and how to integrate Microsoft’s assessments into your testing environment.

Under the hood: installation and updates for Metro style apps

John Sheehan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

The days of writing setup installers are over! Windows 8 automatically handles installing, updating and removal of your apps, based on a declarative manifest that you provide. You’ll learn how the new Windows 8 deployment model lets you and your customers save time and money with faster development time, better system stability and smooth app updates. We’ll show you the nuts and bolts of how the model works; including authoring the app manifest, packaging and signing your app, installing and updating your app for each Windows user.

Programming SVG and canvas graphics in a Metro style app based on HTML5

Patrick Dengler — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

As part of HTML5, SVG and canvas represent two different approaches to incorporating rich vector graphics in a website or Metro style app. This session introduces the programming techniques used for each of these and compares those techniques. It also drills down into the best uses for each technology presenting specific coding examples. The session also includes is an overview of SVG filter effects and using CSS3 transitions and animations with the SVG and canvas elements. This session builds on topics introduced in Build Visually Compelling and Interactive HTML5 Experiences .

John Sheehan: Create experiences that span devices

John Sheehan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

Your customers will expect your app to deliver a continuous experience even as they switch between apps and move between their devices. Come learn how to ensure your customers never lose their place in your app even when it is moved to the background or accessed on a new device. You will also discover how to enable customers to personalize your app with settings and ensure those settings flow automatically to all of their devices. We will show you how you can enable this continuous, cloud-powered experience with only a few lines of code.

Anatomy of HTML5 sites and Metro style apps using HTML5

Tony Ross — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

Begin the journey of building beautiful, connected, and fast sites and apps for Windows 8 by learning the basics of a Metro style app using HTML5. If you've played with angle brackets and CSS but don’t regularly write client-side JavaScript, this session is the place to start.

Introduction to ADK custom jobs

Bill Holt — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

Custom jobs are assessments that you can create using the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) to measure the performance of experiences in Windows 8. This video provides an overview of how to create and configure an ADK custom job to allow you to capture targeted results for the experiences you care most about.

Introduction to the Boot Performance Assessment

Rob Greenwell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

The Windows boot process greatly affects the user’s perception of their PC. In this video, you will learn about how the Assessment and Deployment Kit has made it easier to measure boot performance reliably and to identify areas where performance can be improved. You will learn about the boot assessment and what it measures, the types of issues it highlights, and how to use it to test and fix any boot issues you find.

Introduction to assessments

Bill Holt — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

This video will provide an overview of the new Assessments feature in Windows 8, including how to run assessments and what you can learn from the results.

Building and delivering a great Metro style app for your device

Max Morris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:46:00 GMT

Windows 8 makes it easy to create and distribute compelling apps that bring out the unique capabilities of your device. This session will focus on how to build a great Metro style app for your device and how to use services and tools to distribute your app, device metadata and device driver so that Windows can automatically install all of them together.

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Create rich, data-driven Web apps with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

Damian Edwards — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Data has always been important for Web apps and there are increasingly a myriad of technologies available to work with data. Come join us to discuss different data paradigms life Database First, Model First and Code First, and how the tooling and framework features support them. We’ll dive into the powers of new data-related improvements in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms like model binders and data annotations.

Tips and tricks for developing Metro style apps using C++

Tarek Madkour — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

C++ and XAML provide a new way for C++ developers to target Windows 8. This session will cover tips and tricks for effectively developing Metro style apps using C++. Topics covered will include the new Windows Runtime data types, using Exceptions, how to use the new Windows Runtime collections and the async programming model.

What's new in .NET Framework 4.5

Joshua Goodman, Raja Krishnaswamy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from .NET 4.5. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive, with the AWAIT keyword, faster ASP.NET startup and an improved server Garbage Collector. .NET 4.5 incorporates key customer feedback, with the newest MEF features, support for long running workflows with State Machines, and improved HTML 5 support in ASP.NET. In this overview talk, you’ll learn about all of these technologies, and get pointers to deeper dives where you can learn more.

What's new in Visual Studio 11 for Application Lifecycle Management

Cameron Skinner, Brian Keller — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Microsoft’s application lifecycle management tooling is all about enabling teams to deliver great software. In this demo-packed session, you will learn how to more effectively plan and track work by using the new Web-based project management tools; how to bridge the divide between development and operations by utilizing IntelliTrace in your production environments; and how to help keep team members on-task and “in the zone” with the new “My Work” and code review features. In addition to making your team more productive, we will show you how you can boost your overall code quality with new features such as code clone and an overhauled unit testing story in Visual Studio 11.

Tips & tricks: how to use Visual Studio to the fullest

Weston Hutchins, Phil Price — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

In this fast-paced session, we’ll turn you into a Visual Studio rock star! We’ll blaze through Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 features and “hidden gems” for VB, C#, and C++ developers. This session is guaranteed to make your life easier in Visual Studio.

WebMatrix: uber geek in designer clothes

Vishal R. Joshi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Rarely do you find a developer tool that the fashion-conscious would envy: a tool that functions and inspires. It is capability bundled with simplicity, a web tooling environment that gets you started with OSS applications or gorgeous templates. WebMatrix combines five products in one, letting you install, develop, optimize, deploy and manage your sites and databases. With support for the latest web standards like HTML5 & CSS3, multiple frameworks like ASP.NET & PHP, and multiple database engines like MySQL & SQL Server , you can’t go wrong. Oh, and did we mention it’s FREE? Join us as we unveil the BETA release of WebMatrix 2.

What's new in Visual Studio 11

Jason Zander — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 enable developers to take full advantage of the capability of Windows using the skills and technologies developers already know and love to deliver exceptional and compelling apps. Whether working individually or in a small, medium or large development team the Visual Studio 11 sets a new standard for development tools, helping teams deliver superior results for their customers that help set them apart from their competitors. In this session we’ll walk through the new features in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview to give you an understanding of the breadth of tooling available in this release.

Taking your Application Lifecycle Management to the cloud with the Team Foundation Service

Doug Neumann — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

You’ve heard about the brand new Team Foundation Service that brings together Team Foundation Server and Windows Azure and now it’s time to find out how to get started. In this talk we’ll start you off with creating your account, setting up projects, issue tracking and much more. We’ll also show you how Team Foundation Service differs from Team Foundation Server and what that means to you.

Developer collaboration with Team Foundation Server 11

Jamie Cool — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

This session is all about developer collaboration in Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11. We’ll cover integrated code review, the new “My Work” experience for managing your active tasks, and once you’re “in the zone” we’ll help you stay focused on the task at hand, no matter how much you’re randomized. We’ll walk the full gamut of collaboration improvements, from the newly revamped Team Explorer, to the version control & build improvements. Want to work offline seamlessly? Wish merging happened less frequently & was simpler when it did? How about find work items faster? We’ll talk about all this and more.

Async made simple in Windows 8, with C# and Visual Basic

Mads Torgersen, Alex Turner — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

The new Windows Runtime is adopting a heavily asynchronous programming model to ensure the responsiveness of Windows 8 client apps. This makes it more critical than ever to have great support for asynchronous programming in your programming language. Come learn about the async language innovations coming in C# and Visual Basic and how these new language features come together with new Windows Runtime APIs to simplify asynchronous programming. No more callbacks!

Progressively enable the mobile web with ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML5, and jQuery Mobile

Phil Haack — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

There are over a billion mobile devices with rich Web capabilities, yet many Websites look terrible on such devices, or worse, fail to work at all. As mobile devices become the primary way that most people access the Web, having a site that fails to deliver a rich experience on the Web using HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery Mobile is missing out on a huge opportunity. In this session, learn how ASP.NET MVC 4 leverages these next generation technologies enabling developers to build a single solution that targets multiple platforms and form factors such as mobile, tablet and desktop devices.

Taming GPU compute with C++ AMP

Daniel Moth — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Developers today inject parallelism into their compute-intensive apps in order to take advantage of multi-core CPU hardware. Beyond CPUs, however, compute accelerators such as general-purpose GPUs can provide orders of magnitude speed-ups for data parallel algorithms. How can you as a C++ developer fully utilize this heterogeneous hardware from your Visual Studio environment? How can you benefit from this tremendous performance boost in your Visual C++ solutions without sacrificing developer productivity? The answers will be presented in this session introducing C++ AMP.

Building event-driven, long-running apps with Windows workflow

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

The apps of tomorrow require long running, asynchronous processes that can coordinate services, update data stores, and notify systems and people of outcomes. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) provides you with client and server side capabilities for building these apps. In this session we will cover the improvements in the next release of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) including support for dynamic updates, C# expressions, event driven workflows with State Machine and more.

Building data-driven HTML5 apps with WCF RIA Services

Asad Khan, Dinesh Kulkarni — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Data-centric apps with rich user experience often require significant plumbing across multiple tiers. We simplify n-tier apps by bridging Web client technologies with services – using WCF RIA Services, rich JavaScript client cache, OData, jQuery and effective data binding to UI elements. We will cover common app patterns supported by frameworks and tools for writing business logic, retrieving data with flexible local and remote query capabilities, effective caching and change tracking, integrated validation and built-in authentication and authorization. We will show how to build apps with browser and mobile clients and host them on premise or in the cloud.

It’s not a great phone app without ASP.NET services and push notifications

Erik Porter — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

If you are a mobile phone app builder, you know that users can choose from thousands of apps, and they expect apps to feel alive and connected even when they are closed. Adding push notifications and other services to your phone app is essential but can seem complicated and time consuming to build. It is not. Learn how easy it is to use the latest and greatest from ASP.NET to connect your native phone apps to the web using Windows Phone push notifications, ASP.NET membership, and custom services with just a few lines of code.

ASP.NET 4.5 loves HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

Matthew Osborn — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Whether you’re building a new Website using ASP.NET or maintaining an existing one, you’ll leave this talk ready use HTML5 & CSS3 on ASP.NET with Visual Studio. We’ll look at what HTML5 & CSS3 have to offer modern app developers and how you can use them with ASP.NET for rich Web apps both today and tomorrow.

Architectural discovery with Visual Studio 11

Mark Groves, Tracey Trewin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

Most projects start from an existing code base – whether you are enhancing an existing app or rewriting an app to modernize it. In either case, the documentation for the existing system is most likely non-existent, stale or just wrong. The people who wrote the system are no longer available to the new team, which is left trying to understand a system with no starting point. See how Visual Studio 11 gives you that starting point and allows teams to be productive in a fraction of the time it takes today as well as ensuring that you have the tools to document the new work so you don’t end up with the same situation in the future.

Working on an agile team with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11

Peter Provost, Aaron Bjork — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 bring a valuable set of new features and capabilities to agile teams. In this talk we will take a ride through an example project and show you how an agile team can efficiently prioritize, plan, and deliver high quality software.

Advanced IntelliTrace in production with Visual Studio 11

Mark Groves, Tracey Trewin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

Did you ever have that bug that you just could not reproduce? Not getting enough information from production environments to really solve your problems quickly? Why does it always take way longer to figure out what the problem is then to make the fix? In this session, see how IntelliTrace, within Visual Studio 11, gives you the ability retrieve rich, detailed information about problems, even in production, enabling you to spend less time on bug diagnostics and more time writing software.

Bringing existing managed code into Metro style apps

Daniel Plaisted — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

This talk will cover how to bring existing C# or Visual Basic code into your Windows Metro style apps, enabling you to speed development through reuse. We will walk through the process of porting an app from Windows Phone to Metro style. You will see common issues that you may run into when bringing your code into Metro style apps, and how to resolve those issues. To maximize your benefit from this session, having some prior experience writing XAML-based apps is recommended.

Bringing existing C++ code into Metro style apps

Ale Contenti — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

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 Metro style apps using JavaScript, C#, and other C++ apps.

A lap around DirectX game development tools

Boris Jabes — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

Visual Studio 11 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 a self-proclaimed "guru," there's something for you in this talk. We will walkthrough a slew of new tools integrated into Visual Studio that will make your life better.

Under the covers with C++ for Metro style apps

Deon Brewis — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

In this talk, you'll go deep into the new C++ for Windows Runtime, meet with some of the developers on the compiler teams that designed the language extension for C++, and open the lid to see the wiring the compiler provides. We’ll discuss the new C++ for Metro style apps, including the syntax, the performance characteristics, the compilation model, and more. If you're a C++ programmer, don't miss this talk!

Debugging connected Windows 8 apps

Raghu Gatta — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

When your network code doesn’t work, your app doesn’t work. When you know the tools that Windows provides, you can fix your code faster. This session will teach you about the new tools and capabilities in Windows 8 that lead to network communication success.

Using the Windows Runtime from JavaScript

Luke Hoban — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

Metro style apps using JavaScript allow developers to combine the powerful and vibrant Web platform with the rich capabilities of Windows, to build exciting apps for Windows 8. JavaScript developers building Metro style apps have access to not just all of the Web platform, but also hundreds of Windows APIs, as well as opportunities to leverage custom native components. This talk will focus on how JavaScript developers can use the Windows Runtime and consume custom native components from JavaScript. With examples taken from rich Windows 8 capabilities like media, networking, sensors, and file systems, you’ll get an in depth look at how you can leverage the best of Windows in your Metro style apps using JavaScript.

Using the Windows Runtime from C++

Herb Sutter — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

In this talk, Microsoft's C++ architect and chair of the ISO C++ standards committee Herb Sutter will showcase upcoming innovations in Visual C++ that show the Windows Runtime as a core part of native development. Windows 8 comes packed with rich APIs that are all Windows Runtime based, and C++ continues to deliver the tools you need to achieve the power and performance you have come to expect. Join us for a technical session that will serve as an overview of the new C++ programming model for the Windows Runtime and a prerequisite to other C++ sessions.

Using the Windows Runtime from C# and Visual Basic

Harry Pierson, Jesse Kaplan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:30 GMT

C#, Visual Basic and the .NET tools have first-class support for the Windows Runtime. Learn about this integration and how to use C# and Visual Basic to write Metro style apps that call the Windows Runtime and how to build libraries that integrate with your Metro style apps using HTML.

Manual testing of Windows Metro style apps built using HTML

Mathew Aniyan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

How do you find bugs before you distribute your app to customers? If you’ve found one, how do you ensure that you’ve fixed it? Even if you write up test guides, how do you ensure that they have all been used and that every step was conducted? Are you one of the many developers that spend a lot of time writing Word documents and meeting with testers to try and get them to test consistently? With Visual Studio Test Professional, we gave you the tools to conduct manual testing and to make it easy to verify that you’ve fixed the bugs. If on the other hand, you are part of an Agile team which practices exploratory testing (XT), you have the tools to create a rich, actionable bug from an XT session. You can also create a test case to ensure that parts of your XT session can be executed as a formal test case. In Visual Studio 11, we’re bringing all of this technology to Windows Metro style apps using HTML. In this session, we’ll show how you can use Visual Studio 11 to do manual or exploratory testing and file rich, actionable bugs. We will also discuss guidelines for building testable Windows 8 apps.

Unit testing your metro style apps built using XAML

Peter Provost — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

We all know that unit and functional testing is a cornerstone of successful app development. In Visual Studio 11, we have enabled developers to use modern, agile techniques for developing and testing their new Metro style apps using XAML. In this talk, we will demonstrate how to apply existing best practices to effectively test your app in this new world. We will use TDD to create and test a Metro style app using XAML using well-known patterns like MVVM and isolation, and will also show how to use our new Native Unit Testing framework to test native code.

Building Metro style apps using JavaScript

Chris Tavares — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Come to this session to learn more about JavaScript, the language of Metro style apps using HTML, which provides the features you need to build real-world, full-featured Windows 8 apps. In this talk, you'll learn how to organize your code using the same coding standards we used to build Windows library for JavaScript, how to make your code robust and maintainable, and how to bring in 3rd party libraries, like the popular jQuery. If you're a newbie to app development with JavaScript, or an old hand that wants to see how the language is best used to build Metro style apps, this sessions is for you!

Tips and tricks for developing Metro style apps using XAML

Tim Heuer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

XAML is a great, familiar addition to the Windows 8 UI technology stack. This session will cover the top productivity tips and tricks across the runtime, performance, tools and debugging that developers should know when building Metro style apps using XAML.

Debugging your Metro style apps using HTML

Erik Saltwell, Jeff Fisher — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

In this session, you'll deep dive into debugging your Metro style apps using HTML, including how to handle first-chance exceptions, how to debug on the simulator, local machines and remote machines, how to use Blend to see your app running in multiple-view states and resolutions, how to use the DOM Explorer and the JavaScript Console and more! If you want to chase the bugs out of your Metro style apps using HTML, don't miss this talk!

A deep dive into Visual Studio 11 Express for designing Metro style apps using XAML

Joanna Mason, Unni Ravindranathan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

A great Windows 8 app starts with a great user experience. Come to this session to see how Visual Studio 11 Express enables you to take full advantage of the rich platform features, efficient workflow and tools that maximize your productivity and creativity when designing Metro style apps using XAML.

A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style apps using HTML

Christian Schormann — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Learn how to use Expression Blend to visually construct, style and layout Metro style apps using HTML for Windows 8. In this session, we will demonstrate how Expression Blend makes it possible to create a better user experience with greater productivity. We’ll start with semantic markup and JavaScript-generated content, and then we will demonstrate how to use Expression Blend to customize the user experience for Windows 8.

Developing and testing on Windows 8 with Hyper-V

Bart House, Mathew John — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Hyper-V is no longer just for servers. In Windows 8, developers and testers will be able to use the powerful virtualization capabilities of Hyper-V to help them do more with less hardware. Come and learn how to use Hyper-V in your Windows 8 development and testing environment.

Inside Windows Azure storage: what's new and under the hood deep dive

Brad Calder — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Windows Azure Storage provides a scalable and reliable storage service for accessing Blobs, Tables, and Queues for Microsoft's new cloud OS. In this session, you will learn in depth about new Blob, Table and Queue features and how to use the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics to understand your app's usage of storage. In addition, you'll get an under-the-hood tour of the architecture and design of Windows Azure Storage, and you will learn what goes on behind the scenes to replicate, load balance and scale out access to your data.

Windows Server 8 software and hardware certification

Sandy Arthur, Venkat Krishnamachari — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

This session will discuss the software and hardware certification of products designed for Windows Server 8. Come and learn the differences between client and server hardware certification requirements, tests and policies. The speakers will share the relevant details in these areas that are new, specific, optional (“If-Implemented”), or do not apply to devices and systems designed for Windows Server 8. Changes to the “Unclassified” hardware category for Windows Server 8 will also be highlighted. This session will conclude with a preview of technical requirements (draft) for Windows Server 8 software certification and the upcoming Beta of the self-test Server App Certification kit.

F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips

Don Syme — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. With F# 3.0 and Visual Studio 11, you now have a tool that massively simplifies information-rich analytical programming. F# 3.0 provides integrated support for F# Information Rich Programming, a new and powerful way of integrating data and services into your programming experience. In this talk, we will describe the new features of F# 3.0, including the first released version of F# Type Providers and F# Queries, with apps to leverage technologies such as SharePoint, Azure Data Market, OData, Entity Framework and SQL Server.

Building Windows 8 and Windows Azure apps

Steve Marx — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

This session discusses both the fundamental concepts of Windows Azure and how it can be applied to provide connected experiences for Windows 8 users. After covering fundamentals, we will demonstrate how to use the development environment, consume Windows Azure compute and storage and ultimately the various app deployment methods. At the end of this session, you will be empowered to begin building and deploying your own Windows 8 and Windows Azure apps.

Building social games for Windows 8 with Windows Azure

Nathan Totten — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Building a great social gaming experience for your users can be a challenging task. Your game has to be well designed, have a great user interface and perform under the most demanding conditions. This session will show how Windows 8 empowers you to build great user experiences with languages and tools you already know, and how Windows Azure can enable new scenarios in your games. We will discuss proven and effective patterns such as message queuing and background processing that you can use to build high -performance services on Windows Azure. We will demonstrate various technologies such as Windows Azure CDN and Traffic Manager that will allow you to scale your game to millions of users around the world. You will leave this session with concrete examples and code that you can use to build a great social games on Windows 8.

Building scalable web apps with Windows Azure

Matthew Kerner — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Learn proven patterns and practices to build your next scalable Web app. You will see how to harness the power of both the modern browser and the cloud to build a lightning fast Web app. We will go in depth into the architecture of a highly scalable Web app built on Windows Azure and learn how to effectively use various scaling techniques such as asynchronous Web services, cache aside and job queuing on Windows Azure. Additionally, we will demonstrate when and how to use the various data storage solutions in Windows Azure to maximize performance. You will leave this session with the code samples, tools, and knowledge you need to scale your next Web app.

Building global and highly-available services using Windows Azure

David Aiken — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Building global and highly-available services requires more than just building a stateless Web app. A myriad of factors need to be considered including architecting for high availability, data replication and traffic management. In this session, you will learn how Windows Azure assists in building and running global and highly-available services.

Building device & cloud apps

Wade Wegner — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

So, you’re building apps that span multiple devices apps and you’re curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable Web apps and services on Windows Azure? How about storing data in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? In this session, you'll learn how to build Windows 8, Windows Phone, Android and even iOS apps that are backed by scalable cloud services with the Windows Azure platform. This demo-focused session will cover the end-to-end experience and address how to tackle issues such as authentication, storage and notifications across a wide range of devices.

Building apps with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure

Jurgen Willis, Josh Twist — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation shipped with .NET 4 and is a great way to build extensible apps, model long-running processes and orchestrate services. In this session, we’ll look at the options available to leverage Workflow Foundation in Windows Azure, starting with the capabilities on offer today, before taking a peek into the future and looking at some new features that the team is working on for running and managing workflows in Azure.

Delivering notifications with the Windows Push Notification Service and Windows Azure

Darren Louie, Nick Harris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Notifications extend the reach of your app to the desktop but with a large user base timely delivery can be challenging without the right tools. In this session we’ll review the notification options available to modern apps, demonstrate how you can deliver notifications using Windows Azure, and discuss features provided by Windows Azure to scale your notification solution. By the end of this session you will understand how to use Windows Azure to rapidly develop a notification enabled service for Windows apps.

Building loosely-coupled apps with Windows Azure Service Bus Topics and Queues

Clemens Vasters — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

In this session, you will learn how the new publish and subscribe messaging capabilities provided by the Windows Azure Service Bus can be used to interconnect services and apps. You will see examples of using pub/sub for decoupled communications inside Windows Azure using Queues and Topics, and you will also learn how to use Service Bus to bridge between services spread across cloud and local servers. Finally, you will see how Windows and Windows Phone apps can use the Service Bus to build continuous client experiences.

Using cloud storage from Windows apps

Wade Wegner — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Modern apps don't just store data on local disks. Your users expect to have 24/7 access to their files and settings wherever they go. This session will show you how you can use Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure to store your data to give your users the experience they expect. We will have an in depth look into how to handle scale so that your app gives your users the data they want when they want it. We will also look at the security solutions available on Windows Azure to ensure your user's data remains protected. You will leave this session with an understanding of when and how to use each of the various storage solutions in the Windows Azure platform to enhance your modern Windows app.

Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Azure apps

Michael Washam — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Your app is in the cloud now, alleviating all of the problems traditional apps had such as performance issues, crashes and memory leaks, right? Join us as we dig deep into Windows Azure diagnostics with PowerShell and other techniques you can use from instrumentation to debugging to keep your app safe from problems that go bump in the night.

Identity and access management for Windows Azure apps

Vittorio Bertocci — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

This talk discusses the role of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) in managing identity and access control for apps running on the Windows platform . ACS offers developers the means to offload most of the complexity of handling authentication, regardless of where the app will be hosted or from where it will be consumed, to a cloud-hosted service. After a brief introduction to the approach behind ACS, the talk will highlight how developers can take advantage of Windows Identity Foundation to easily connect to ACS, and will demonstrate various scenarios ACS unlocks such as enabling Windows 8 apps to authenticate users from Facebook, Google, or Windows Live ID and reusing AD accounts with apps hosted in Windows Azure without requiring Windows Azure Connect.

Introduction to Windows Azure: the cloud operating system

Mark Russinovich — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

Come join Mark Russinovich for an overview of Microsoft’s new cloud OS. Assuming no prior knowledge of Windows Azure, this session will start by explaining the Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) app philosophy and how it differs from that of traditional server apps. Then, demonstrating key concepts with a real Windows Azure service built and deployed to the cloud, we’ll describe the Windows Azure service model, including concepts like update and fault domains. The session will then conclude by discussing the different service update options and detail the recovery steps Windows Azure follows when it detects that a service or a hardware device has failed.

What's new in Windows Azure

James Conard — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

Windows Azure is constantly being updated to include new features and services. In this session, you will learn more about some of the latest enhancements to the Windows Azure Platform.

Getting started with Windows Azure

Brian Prince — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform for quickly building and running scalable apps. In this demo-focused session, you will learn how to get started building your first Windows Azure app. You will see how to build and deploy an app to the cloud and consume several Windows Azure Platform services.

Optimize your website using ASP.NET and IIS8

Mads Kristensen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

We have real world examples and war stories of optimizing ASP.NET apps. Whether new or existing, whether big or small, all Websites can run faster and perform better than they do today. Optimizing your Website does not have to be a three-month project. Come join us and in 60 minutes we will give you practical tips that you can apply to your sites today. But that’s not all - with ASP.NET 4.5, we made huge investments in performance and optimization. Come see the new showcasing of framework features around CSS & JS bundling and optimization, and hear about the great performance improvements in IIS8 which will help you build lightning fast Websites.

Your devices + OData + Windows Azure == happiness

Mike Flasko — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

We are currently undergoing a massive proliferation of connected devices ranging from phones to PCs, each with its own requirements and capabilities. This can lead to significant developer frustration as we try to create great end-user experiences across devices. The OData protocol (http://odata.org) was created to provide a simple, common way to interact with data on the Web from any platform or device. In this session, we’ll show you how the dynamic duo of OData and Windows Azure can be used to create rich, Web-friendly and scalable Web APIs that provide the capabilities you need to bring happiness to all your device programming experiences. Finally, we’ll mash up the data we’ve exposed with data provided by existing OData sources including Netflix, eBay, Facebook, SAP, and others.

OData Futures: creating the web of data

Pablo Castro — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

The OData protocol is a great way of exposing Web APIs for use in mobile apps and 3rd party Web sites. In this session we’ll cover what’s coming next for OData. We will discuss the new features of the protocol and we’ll show how they surface in specific implementations such as the .NET and Javascript frameworks.

IIS sand-boxing and scalability for hosting on modern hardware

Won Yoo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

Developers are looking for inexpensive ways to host their Web apps. With modern advancements in servers with a large number of processors and high-performance network interfaces, how do you architect your hosting platform to be secure, reliable and scale? As a developer, how do you pick the best hosting platform for your app needs? The session focuses on how IIS is evolving as a hosting platform to take advantage of hardware advancements in the areas of multi-tenant security boundaries, sand-boxing resources and scalability. Learn the best practices to run Web apps and configure IIS to maximize modern server platform potential.

Creating immersive data experiences with Entity Framework

Jeff Derstadt, David Annesley-DeWinter — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

Whether you’re targeting the desktop, a mobile device, or a tablet, the entity framework is the easiest way to get data to your app. In this talk you’ll see how new features such as spatial data support can light up your apps with a richer and more interactive experience. New productivity features such as enums and migrations, combined with the entity framework’s code first support, make it easier than ever to build data-driven apps. Finally, you’ll see how the same entity data model (EDM) can be combined with OData to deliver the same rich experience directly to any mobile device.

Building parallelized apps with .NET and Visual Studio

Stephen Toub — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

The Task Parallel Library (TPL), PLINQ, and Visual Studio 2010 provide managed code developers with a solid foundation for parallelizing loops, queries, and other common constructs in both server and client apps. But that’s only the beginning. In this code-intensive session, learn about what’s next for parallelization with .NET and Visual Studio, diving deep into performance enhancements, new Visual Studio tooling, and new libraries and language support for parallelization and asynchrony.

Building real-time web apps with WebSockets using IIS, ASP.NET and WCF

Stefan Schackow, Paul Batum — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

WebSockets is a new technology under joint development by Microsoft and other industry leaders, designed to enable secure, real-time bidirectional communication across the Web. Windows 8 has a comprehensive WebSocket offering with support in IE10, Metro style apps, WCF and ASP.NET. Come learn how HTML5 apps can make dramatic improvements in terms of user experience and performance by taking advantage of this exciting technology.

Building mission critical database apps with SQL Server code name "Denali"

Roger Doherty — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

SQL Server code name “Denali” offers a powerful array of developer tools, frameworks and language improvements that will make developers more productive than ever. Come learn how the next wave of SQL Server investments further help protect an organization’s infrastructure – getting you the nines and performance you need at the right price, especially for mission critical apps running on Windows Server 8. In this session you will learn how to build mission critical database apps that achieve maximum availability by reducing planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution, SQL Server AlwaysOn . We’ll cover how to develop blazing fast star join and similar queries using the new column store index. We’ll also show you how add rich content management and search functionality to your database apps using powerful improvements to database blob storage and full-text indexing.

CANCELLED: Building IIS and ASP.NET apps with the power of async

Phil Haack, Damian Edwards — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

It’s well established from both theory and practice that Web sites and Web services achieve scale through asynchrony. If a dedicated thread is required per client connection to a server, scalability becomes limited by the number of threads the server system can support, which is typically far fewer than business requirements demand. Unfortunately, it’s also been difficult historically for developers to write asynchronous apps, due to the myriad of callbacks that have been necessary to program asynchrony successfully. Thus, businesses scale by investing in many more machines rather than by making better use of the ones they already have or the few they’re paying for use of in the cloud. All that changes with the next release of Visual Studio and .NET. New features in managed languages make writing asynchronous code as simple as writing synchronous code, thereby enabling both developer productivity and good return on investments. In this code-heavy session, learn how you can be the hero of your organization, building efficient and scalable server apps that best utilize your company’s resources.

Building Web APIs in Windows Azure with WCF to reach any device

Glenn Block — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

Web app developers today are facing new challenges around how to expose data and services to multiple devices, browser apps and other cloud services. In this session we’ll explore how the Windows Communication Foundation Web API makes it easy for developers to expose their services and data to a broad set of clients and take advantage of rich emerging Web standards like WebSockets. We’ll show how simple it is to create new Web APIs, whether you are building Web apps or standalone services to expose existing functionality or data.

Enabling the hybrid cloud using remote access appliances

Scott Roberts, Sharad Kylasam — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

Enterprises require easily managed remote access solutions for end users connecting to private or public clouds. Most remote access solutions require changes in user behavior because the remote access connection must be manually initiated. Additionally, enterprises have difficulty managing remote machines and ensuring they remain compliant with enterprise policies. The hybrid cloud extends an enterprise’s data center to span both private and public clouds, and presents new opportunities for remote access solutions. With Windows Server 8, partners can build and package remote access appliances to meet customer requirements including policy compliance and simplified user behavior, thereby driving down support costs. In this session, we will demonstrate how remote access appliances provide customer value by simplifying deployment logistics and offering enhanced feature support. New functionality including simplified configuration, new monitoring capabilities, highly available and scale, remote provisioning of clients and cloud based cross-premise connectivity will be highlighted.

Reduce costs using new power efficiencies in Windows Server 8

Bruce Worthington, Sean McGrane — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

The cost of power and cooling infrastructure in data centers continues to be top of mind for many companies. This, combined with the growing desire to be recognized as a green company and to reduce carbon emissions, provide a strong incentive to lower power usage in server systems. In this session, we will discuss the new power management capabilities in Windows Server 8, including a new capability to manage the power used by memory subsystems on servers.

Manage a highly-efficient environment at scale using the Windows Management Framework (WMF)

Jeffrey Snover, Refaat Issa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

Come learn how developers and IT Pros can work together to develop end-to-end automation and tools that manage the diverse elements of today’s IT environments at scale: servers, storage, networking, devices, operating systems, middleware and apps. See how you can leverage the new version of the WMF (built on PowerShell and industry-standard technologies, such as CIM (WMI) and WSMan) and related investments in management coverage, multi-machine execution, industry standards and services to create powerful management products and tools. Learn how to expose your management infrastructure as PowerShell cmdlets and RESTful Web services (OData) that provide management functionality to Web clients.

Make your product manageable

Jeffrey Snover, Refaat Issa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

Manageability is increasingly the value differentiator between products. Customers need to create management solutions quickly and reliably. They need to manage their entire IT spectrum consistently using standard-based technologies. Come to this session to learn how to make your product manageable in standard and powerful ways using the Windows Management Framework (WMF) and plug into the growing ecosystem of tools and IT management capabilities. See how the WMF enables (via .NET, Native Code, PowerShell, Workflow and CIM/WSMan) managing your product by standard-based tools, powerful command utilities, REST APIs or standard Windows graphical user interface.

Remote desktop experience in Windows 8

Gaurav Daga, Nadim Abdo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

RemoteFX in Windows 8 has been tailored for the Metro style UI to provide users a touch-first, fast and fluid experience on their remote desktops and apps over both LAN and WAN conditions for VDI, Session, and physical hosts. This session covers these enhancements with a series of demos using the new Metro look Remote Desktop client app. Whether you are an enthusiast using remote desktop at home or for your development needs, or an enterprise user getting work done using your IT provisioned centralized desktop and app deployment, to learn what is new in remoting in Windows 8, this is the session for you!

Optimal cloud performance with BranchCache

Tyler Barton, Andrew Cunningham — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

The cloud has enormous potential to reduce operational expenses and achieve new levels of scale, but moving workloads away from the people who depend on them can increase networking costs and hurt productivity. Users expect high performance and don’t care where their apps are hosted. BranchCache can improve the performance of cloud-based apps and reduce bandwidth consumption with a shared cache of data. It speeds up HTTP and SMB communication without requiring app changes or new infrastructure in the office or the data center. In this session, we’ll explore the BranchCache platform and protocols, and explain how they can be used to optimize apps deployed in public and private clouds.

Windows networking with PowerShell: A foundation for data center management

Christopher Palmer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

Cloud computing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) consolidate computing resources into a smaller number of larger data centers that have to be more efficient and run at a larger scale. As a result of this consolidation, management complexity increases thereby creating a need for a comprehensive "lights out" solution, including management of the networking subsystem. Windows Server 8 enables remote networking management solutions. This talk will dive into the specific capabilities for PowerShell management of the network stack. Partners can learn how to hook into the network management stack, build upon the networking PowerShell primitives, and provide enhanced management experiences for customers.

Extending the Hyper-V switch

Bob Combs, Luis Hernandez — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

With the proliferation of virtualization, hypervisor customers are demanding integrated protection, consistent management, the ability to add virtual appliances and to tailor virtual switches to their networks. Switch plug-ins must be able to work together, have consistent management interfaces, and support migration to other hosts without breaking SLAs. In Windows Server 8, the Hyper-V switch is extensible for partners, who can build security, monitoring, and switching add-ons using well-known Windows APIs and development tools to quickly provide value-add solutions for enterprise and cloud deployments. This session will describe what partners need to know to successfully extend the Hyper-V switch.

Platform storage evolved

Ahmed El-Shimi, Rajeev Nagar — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

The platform file system and storage stack has evolved significantly to enable exciting new scenarios including offloaded data transfers, optimal storage efficiency and utilization, service uptime despite failures, resilient scalable virtualized storage using commodity hardware and high-performance data access in clustered virtual machine deployments. Come and learn how to develop and deliver next-generation solutions based on this modern storage stack.

Analyzing "big data" with LINQ to HPC

Ade Miller — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

"Big data" refers to unstructured data sets so large that they cannot be analyzed using traditional database tools. Today, big data are becoming more common; it is prevalent not just in Web traffic, but also in industries like oil & gas, finance and manufacturing. Based on Microsoft Research’s Dryad project, LINQ to HPC is a programming model and distributed runtime for building analysis solutions for big data. It goes beyond MapReduce and leverages the LINQ programming model and HPC scheduler to execute optimized query graphs across a cluster of machines. In this session, you will learn how to use LINQ to HPC on both Windows Azure and an on-premise Windows cluster to build analytic apps that deal with big data. These apps will be able to scale out to hundreds of machines without having to deal with scheduling, data replication and node failure complexities generally associated with programming a large, distributed data-parallel system.

Building and running HPC apps in Windows Azure

Greg Burgess — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:19 GMT

Windows Azure is an ideal environment for deploying compute-intensive apps that take advantage of the scale-on-demand capability of the cloud. The HPC Pack for Windows Azure provides a job scheduler, management tools, and a set of runtimes for developing and deploying parallel and scale-out apps. This talk will present app examples and best practices for using the HPC Pack in Windows Azure to rapidly create scalable compute and data-intensive services. Programming models include parallel apps using MPI, scale-out apps using WCF and data intensive apps using HPC to LINQ.

Building continuously available systems with Hyper-V

Brian Dewey — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

Come learn how Hyper-V leverages modern hardware! Customers demand continuous availability from Hyper-V deployments. In the next version of Windows Server, Hyper-V can use many modern hardware features to deliver better availability and scalability to customers. This session will cover the server, network, and storage features you can include in system designs to deliver great Hyper-V solutions across a wide range of deployment possibilities.

Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with block storage

Elden Christensen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

This session discusses integrating with and designing continuously available Windows Server failover cluster solutions. It covers improvements in cluster shared volumes, including the new architecture and model for backup requestors, as well as other new features and their integration points. This session also covers the breadth of storage options that will be available in Windows Server 8 for building continuously available solutions. Lastly, this session will describe how to use the new patch orchestration feature to enable simplified management of clustered solutions.

Building continuously available file server NAS appliances

Cristian Teodorescu, Gene Chellis — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

This session builds on earlier presentations about the evolution of platform storage technologies and designing multi-node systems for continuous availability. These platform advances allow Microsoft partners to use industry-standard hardware to build Continuously Available Windows Server solutions at different price bands. This session will discuss considerations, options and opportunities for using the Windows Server Continuous Availability platform to build continuously-available network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, including workloads and deployment options, and new Windows Server 8 capabilities for file server and NAS appliances. The talk will also describe the branding and customization opportunities for OEMs, including description and examples of customized extensions of the initial out-of-the-box customer experience for server appliances.

Designing systems for continuous availability and scalability

Jim Pinkerton, Surendra Verma — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

Windows Server 8 includes fundamental enhancements to the core platform to enable deployment of continuously available services with great performance. To fully enable these new capabilities, new hardware platform features are required in networking, storage and the memory system. This session will outline new investments in networking around NIC teaming and file server support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and multi-channel; new fault resiliency in the file system and storage stack; and new capabilities for memory fault tolerance. We will also walk through common failure conditions, the architectural improvements within Windows Server 8 and the new hardware that enables these features.

Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with remote file storage

Claus Joergensen, Jim Pinkerton — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

The file server role of Windows Server 8 has been redesigned to enable scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant storage for server app workloads, such as Hyper-V and SQL Server, on remote file shares. This session will discuss the new active-active file server with improved scalability and simplified management; describe the transparent failover feature which makes file shares continuously available for server apps, and details on the extensions to Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for backup and recovery of app data stored on file shares. The talk will also review sample entry-level and high-end system configurations and their potential performance capabilities.

Business and partnering opportunities: Windows Server 8 continuous availability

Siddhartha Roy, Thomas Pfenning — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:17 GMT

This session describes Windows Server 8 Continuous Availability across the entire solution continuum – single-node, multi-node and multi-site – and how it enables a range of server and storage appliances for different customer segments. The talk showcases sample hardware designs that create a new value chain for sophisticated yet cost-effective solutions, and covers various software partner opportunities around service, configuration and replication management, and cloud backup.

Building secure, scalable multi-tenant clouds using Hyper-V Network Virtualization

Murari Sridharan, Yu-Shun Wang — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:16 GMT

'Any service at any server in any cloud.' Next generation data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation and consolidation across large resource pools. The topological constrains of today’s data center networks limit how services can be assigned to servers. Windows Server 8 enables you to create an agile, multi-tenant cloud on top of your existing infrastructure by virtualizing the network. Network virtualization decouples server configuration from network configuration to provide a virtual dedicated network to each tenant. This allows seamless migration of workloads, while continuing to provide security isolation between tenants. Partners have the opportunity to become multi-tenancy aware and provide the next generation of services, devices, appliances, both physical and virtual, to augment and complete the Windows offering to build secure, scalable, multi-tenant public and private clouds.

Enabling multi-tenancy and converged fabric for the cloud using QoS

Charley Wen, Richard Wurdack — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:16 GMT

Converged fabric and multi-tenancy pose new challenges in the data center where businesses are required to provide predictable network performance and SLAs. Today, a common solution is costly hardware overprovisioning and complex wiring. In this session, we will describe how Windows Server 8 enables data centers to use QoS and DCB-capable hardware to guarantee network bandwidth to a service. Because Windows Server 8 provides predictable network performance in a converged fabric environment, businesses will be able to virtualize and consolidate network I/O intensive workloads on a single 10GbE NIC thereby reducing costs and improving service. Partners, through familiar PowerShell and WMI interfaces, will be able to integrate these QoS features to provide a better service on Windows Server 8.

A deep dive into Hyper-V networking

Pankaj Garg, See-Mong Tan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:16 GMT

With Windows Server 8, Hyper-V networking is optimized for public and private clouds. New features in Windows Server 8 expand Hyper-V for performance, reliability, scale and security. In this session, server and solution developers will learn how to enhance their server and networking product offerings to take full advantage of these capabilities to provide performant and cost-effective customer solutions.

Network acceleration and other NIC technologies for the data center

Don Stanwyck, Michael Nanakul — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:15 GMT

Clouds place new demands on performance and scalability. Partners can build cloud-scale infrastructure with Windows Server 8. In this session, we will cover several new technologies that make it possible for platform and hardware partners to provide performant and cost-effective cloud scale solutions.

Designing the building blocks for a Windows Server 8 cloud

Yigal Edery, Ross Ortega — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:15 GMT

When building servers, networks and storage for cloud scale data centers, many complex tradeoffs and technologies must be considered. These tradeoffs include performance, reliability, security, flexible virtual machine deployment, storage architecture selection and interoperability with the existing architecture. Each choice influences the other considerations. This session presents a few canonical architectures that highlight interesting tradeoffs for the design of servers and systems focused on cloud deployments.

Using Windows Server 8 for building private and public IaaS clouds

Jeff Woolsey, Yigal Edery, Sandeep Singhal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:15 GMT

Windows Server 8 is the first operating system to be optimized to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for building private and public clouds. With Windows Server 8, customers will be able to build scalable and flexible clouds, rapidly migrate their existing apps and services, and efficiently manage and monitor the cloud. With hundreds of new features in Hyper-V, encompassing networking, storage and more, Windows Server 8 creates several new opportunities for software, hardware and solution partners, as well as hosters, to extend and manage clouds. This session provides an overview of how Windows Server 8 enables IaaS and the rich, new development opportunities provided by the release.

Design for a multimillion thin client market with RemoteFX

Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Rob Williams — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:14 GMT

The next version of RDP and RemoteFX in Windows extends the rich experiences for the remote desktop user, be it Terminal Server (RDSH), VDI or MultiPoint Server. As customers embrace and deploy Windows, they will be asking their vendors to extend these experiences to new devices and form factors that will lower the cost of the deployment without compromising the user experience. If you want to address a market of millions of devices by building on the RemoteFX platform, this session is for you.

Using classification for access control and compliance

Matthias Wollnik — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:14 GMT

This session describes how data classification is used for information governance, security access and auditing using the new claims-based access control capabilities in Windows 8. In this session, we will explain how partners can provide automatic classification capabilities so that Windows applies appropriate security to the information. We will also explain how partners implementing data management capabilities such as encryption, archival, retention and disaster recovery can leverage classification in information governance offerings. Finally, we will show how line of business apps can tag data so that the appropriate information governance is applied to that data.

Building security auditing solutions for compliance and forensic analysis

Jay Dave, Dave McPherson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:14 GMT

This session demonstrates how the new claims based access control capabilities in Windows 8 significantly enhances the security audit and analysis capabilities for compliance and business forensic analysis. In this session, we will describe the new expression-based auditing policies that can be deployed centrally as well as locally, and will demo how monitoring products use these security events for compliance reporting and triggering alerts for suspected activity. In addition, we will describe the full set of auditing scenarios around claims-based access control to demonstrate end-to-end event-driven reporting capabilities for both compliance and day-to-day security management.

Using claims-based access control for compliance and information governance

Samuel Devasahayam, Nir Ben-Zvi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:14 GMT

This session provides an overview of the new Dynamic Access Control capabilities in Windows Server 8, and explains how to leverage these in line of business apps and products that focus on compliance and information governance (including data management and data leakage prevention). In this session, we will describe the new components including Central Access and Audit Policies, User Claims, Device Claims, Classification and new expression-based ACLs. We will demo how this all comes together and highlight the major integration and partnering opportunities.

Windows Server performance improvements and optimizations

Ahmed Talat — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:13 GMT

This session discusses the major performance improvements of Windows Server 8 and demonstrates how customers and partners can achieve their performance and scalability goals. We will describe some of the ways you can take advantage of the new capabilities to improve scalability, networking, throughput, and get a more powerful virtualization experience with Windows Server 8.

Windows Server 8 apps must run without a GUI - learn more now

Andrew Mason — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:12 GMT

All server apps should be restructured to run on Windows Server systems without a GUI stack, or with all GUI components found on a Windows Client system; this is a Windows Server 8 best practice. This talk explains how to ensure your server apps will work in Windows Server 8 when the GUI shell is uninstalled, how to ensure your app is remotely manageable, and how this positions your app for no GUI stack. This talk will also cover how to use PowerShell to quickly and easily add and/or enhance your remote management capabilities.

Graphics on the server

Akshay Agrawal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Windows 8 is moving to a single graphics driver model - the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) – offering more features over the older XP Display Driver Model commonly run on physical and virtualized servers. Windows 8 also brings updates to the inbox display driver (previously known as Standard VGA driver) which is the default standard on server systems. This session will provide information about providing support for Windows Server 8 systems that do not have WDDM capable graphics adapters, without having to update the hardware. We will also cover key design points for consideration in future server systems including utilizing graphics adapters for generic computational purposes and scenarios.

Seamlessly interacting with web and local data

Manav Mishra — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Windows 8 is the PC-reimagined. Its rich, powerful file system is available to all Metro style apps. Come find out more about the file landscape! This talk will give you an overview of the various file mechanisms available in Windows 8, the details behind them, and their intended purpose. Learn how to integrate local and web data seamlessly into your apps using the Windows 8 platform. This talk will include specific examples and information to help you build great Metro style apps!

Building great Metro style gallery apps today

Ed Averett — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Customers love using apps that evoke strong emotional connections like viewing photos and playing music. Come learn how, in a few lines of code, you can build Metro style "gallery" apps such as photo viewers, music players and doc readers. Learn how Windows helps you enumerate files and work with thumbnails and metadata to build compelling and responsive views of files in your app. Walk away with the knowledge to build a simple gallery app or a powerful custom solution that leverages the file system.

Using files: accessing, searching, and acting on files

David Fields — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Many apps today still use files directly. Files are the life-blood of some apps. This talk will use real code examples to walk you through the nuts and bolts of accessing and acting on files. Learn the common design patterns you need to access content locally, on the network, on the web and in other apps, perform various file operations, search through files and access properties using the rich Windows platform.

Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

Jason Olson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Does building a new Metro style app for Windows 8 mean you have to start from scratch? Absolutely not! Come learn how you can leverage existing code when developing Metro style apps for Windows 8. In this session, you will get an opportunity to learn directly from developers who have already benefitted from their existing code.

Ten Tips When Writing a Hybrid Language Metro style Application

Brent Rector — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:11 GMT

Many Windows Runtime APIs were designed during the course of Windows 8, and many lessons were learned during this process. Come learn what challenges the designers of the Windows Runtime APIs encountered, how they solved the problems and why they chose the selected resolutions. After this talk, you will be able to incorporate this guidance into your own API designs to make APIs that are simple to use, easy to maintain and a joy to program against.

Designing Metro style apps using CSS3

Christian Stockwell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Designing a new Metro style app with CSS3 can be intimidating at first. With such a large blank canvas at your disposal, it can be difficult knowing where to start. Come learn how to design your Metro style apps by using HTML5 and CSS3 features like regions, grid layout, flexible box layout, multiple columns, text-wrap around images and hyphenation.

Creating connected apps that work on today's networks

Peter Smith — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

In today’s highly connected world, your customers want their apps to connect them with friends, content and information wherever they are, but current networks make this hard. Work networks have proxies that block your connections; wireless networks have usage, overage and roaming costs that can lead to severe bill shock; and improper handling of security, IPv6 and network glitches can cause frustration with your app. Come learn how Windows 8 makes it easy for your app to work across networks and deliver a consistent and compelling experience, which will delight your customers.

Extending the media platform using input, output and processing plug-ins

Stan Pennington — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Windows 8 exposes a broad range of audio and video functionality for Metro style apps, and extensibility in the media platform provides advanced apps the option to do more. Apps can use the power and efficiency of native code media extensions to deliver additional effects, arbitrary processing, media formats and media delivery support. Learn how to develop, deploy and leverage these plug-ins for advanced playback, capture, sharing and transcoding.

Media fundamentals of a communications app

Johnny Bregar, Kenny Oladosu — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

We live in a connected world. Whether it's a spouse away on a business trip, a daughter away at college, or our parents in New York, we love to stay connected with each other. With Windows 8, writing a real-time communication Metro style app is a snap! Learn how to leverage the new media capture APIs, take advantage of the new Bluetooth features and unleash cool media tricks that will add polish to your app and delight your customers.

Capturing personal photos, video, and audio in Metro style apps

Mehmet Kucukgoz, Khurram Zia — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Every minute, people around the world are taking pictures and recording personal video and audio. They are capturing family memories, personal victories, and all the moments in between. You’ll learn how to capture these to provide powerful user experiences in Windows 8.

Your Metro style app, video and audio, Part 2

Daniel Schneider, Tim Onders — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Come to this session to see how easily sophisticated media playback can be built into Metro style apps. We will show you how the HTML5 video element enables playback easily with great UI, and how you can take your Metro style app to the next level by accessing Windows functionality from the app. You will learn how to build your own custom media components (codecs, streaming formats, effects, etc.) into your app, to extend beyond what Windows 8 offers.

Your Metro style app, video and audio, Part 1

Gabe Frost — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

This session provides an overview of the Windows multimedia platform for Metro style apps and a primer on APIs in the Windows.Media namespace to accomplish scenarios such as playback, capture, streaming and transcode.

Create cool image effects with Direct2D

Sriram Subramanian — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Every day, people are using apps that process images to create a variety of effects. The new image processing infrastructure in Windows 8 enables apps to perform high-performance image enhancements, transformation and composition using the GPU for photos, vector graphics and UI elements. In this session, you will learn about the Direct2D effect API, and see how easy it is to apply effects to photos and 2D and 3D content in your Windows 8 app to deliver more polished visual experiences to your customers.

Achieving high performance 2D graphics with Direct2D

Megha Jain — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Make it fast! Great performance is a huge motivator of satisfaction and user preference with apps. Direct 2D powers high-performance 2D graphics rendering in Windows 8. In this session, you will learn advanced techniques for optimizing your Direct2D code for maximum speed and efficiency in your apps.

Introduction to DirectX for Metro style apps

Kam VedBrat — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Learn how you can harness the power of DirectX for your app! As the foundation for all graphics on Windows 8, DirectX enables you to create the most compelling apps for connecting to people, visualizing information, storytelling, entertainment and creativity. Attend this session for a comprehensive overview of the graphics platform DirectX provides for Windows 8 apps.

Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8

Avi Ben-Menahem — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Xbox LIVE, Microsoft's premier entertainment service, is coming to Windows 8. Whether you are developing a game or another kind of entertainment app for Windows 8, Xbox LIVE can help your app stand out in the crowd and help engage and delight users. You will learn about how to implement our well-loved features like Achievements, Multiplayer, Avatars and Community and brand new ones like roaming storage and profiles.

Compelling audio and video for Metro style games

Jason Strayer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Compelling audio and video are no longer optional enhancements in games; they are a requirement! Windows provides a spectrum of technologies you can use to create exhilarating experiences for your players. This session will profile the audio and video technologies available in Windows for Metro style development and help you augment your entertainment app with electrifying sound effects, background music, and cut-scenes.

From touch to gamepads: master player input in your Metro style game

Jason Strayer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Windows offers a wide variety of input mechanisms for players to control your Metro style game, from touch, to gamepads, to classics like the keyboard and mouse, or even device sensors such as an accelerometer. At first glance, it may seem challenging to handle it all, but the input and sensor APIs in Windows are easy to learn and quick to master. Learn in this session how to develop entertainment apps that are easy to control on any hardware form factor.

Tuning GPU usage for any form factor

Dan McLachlan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Windows 8 offers the opportunity to ship your game on the world’s broadest range of form factors, from super-light tablet devices to high-end gaming rigs with 3D displays. Learn how to max out GPU performance to hit the broadest possible audience.

3D Graphics in Metro Style Apps and Games

Chas Boyd — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

3D graphics enable you to create the most immersive and impressive games around. But developers often think that creating 3D graphics is hard. In Windows 8, creating 3D graphics is easier than you think! You can write a Metro style game that uses the Direct3D API for high-performance 3D experiences. Come to this talk to learn how to use the 3D rendering pipeline of Windows 8 in your games and apps.

Build your first Metro style game

Chas Boyd — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:07 GMT

Games are undoubtedly one of the most popular style of apps with users today and one of the largest money makers as well! If you have ever thought of writing a game, this session is for you! Windows 8 offers an end-to-end platform for developing games. Come to this session to learn how Windows 8 enables you to build engaging, profitable, connected games that can play on a myriad of form factors.

Building Metro style apps that print

Darren Davis, Jon Kay — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

Printing great looking content from your Metro style app is easy. Come to this session and learn how to format your content, customize the print experience, and add your own tailored settings to help users select what content to print. We will discuss how printing works with Metro style apps using HTML5, XAML and C++/DirectX, and show you how the Air Craft app prints great looking paper planes for kids and adults alike.

Windows Interns: our summer of apps

John Lam — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

To learn how to build apps, sometimes you simply need to roll up your sleeves and start writing some code. This year, 100 interns on the Windows team spent their summer creating Metro style apps for Windows 8. Come see the very best of their apps, and hear them describe in their own words things that they wished they had known when they first started building their apps.

Making apps social and connected with HTTP services

Alexander Corradini, Suhail Khalid — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

People want apps that are social and connected - enabling them to upload pictures and share them with friends, download magazines, read news, or use the next big service on the Internet. Today’s popular services allow users to do these things over HTTP, but this can be tedious because of lengthy documentation, various authentication protocols and response formats. Come learn how Windows 8 makes it easy to provide a great social and connected experience by providing these HTTP services through a platform that is simple, rich, and enables multitasking - keeping your customers engaged in your apps.

50 performance tricks to make your Metro style apps and sites using HTML5 faster

Jason Weber — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance Team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you can make your sites faster. This is the same team that brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript, and they will share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers.

What's new with HTML5, Javascript, and CSS3

John Hrvatin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

If you are a developer, you probably hear something about "HTML5" almost every day. HTML5 knocks down the walls that previously held back sites and apps built with web technologies. This session introduces the new HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript features of Internet Explorer 10.

Building beautiful and interactive apps with HTML5 & CSS3

Ted Johnson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

HTML5 is ushering in a new era of graphically rich, visually compelling and highly interactive Web sites and apps. This session outlines some of what you can do with new HTML5 and CSS3 features introduced in Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10, including Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts, 2D & 3D transforms, transitions, animations, gradients, box and text shadow, border-radius, multi-column layout, inline SVG, and canvas.

Building offline access in Metro style apps and websites using HTML5

Israel Hilerio — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

As web apps increase in popularity and capture more user information, users expect (or are selecting solutions that enable them) to be able to access that information when they are not connected to the internet. Learn how to use HTML5 technologies like IndexedDB, App Cache, DOM Storage and File API to enable the creation of web apps that cache data locally and access it without being online.

Building real-time web apps with HTML5 WebSockets

Ravi Rao — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

WebSockets is an emerging standard that enables secure, real-time, bidirectional communication across the Web. Microsoft and other industry leaders at the W3C and the IETF are jointly developing this standard. Microsoft is offering a comprehensive WebSockets solution, with support in IE10, Windows 8 Apps, IIS, ASP.NET, and WCF. Come learn how Metro style apps using HTML5 can make dramatic improvements in user experience and performance by taking advantage of this exciting technology.

File type associations and AutoPlay

Anshul Rawat — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:05 GMT

Do you want to associate your apps with specific file types, protocols or devices? Do your apps need to be able to launch other file types or protocols? Come learn how you can integrate your apps with the new file association and AutoPlay experience. This talk will walk you through code examples for common scenarios and highlight the changes in Windows 8. By the end, you will have learned how your apps can take full advantage of the new model.

Bring pen and touch input to your Metro style apps with ink

Annie Chowdhry, Jay Pittman — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:03 GMT

Metro style apps are much better with ink! In Windows 8, you code your Metro style apps for touch, and get pen and mouse support for free. In addition, with the new Windows 8 API for ink, you can expand your app’s capability and support ink strokes with precise control over Pen width and color. Add ink notations to your app, build an electronic whiteboard for families, create an app for the next Picasso—all these are possible. Interacting with your computer is going to be easier than ever with ink-enabled Metro style apps in Windows 8!

Packaging assessments for use on a second computer

Aman Benes — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to package Assessment and Deployment Kit assessments so they can be run on another computer.

Customizing ADK assessment reports

Aman Benes — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to customize assessment data reporting in the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK).

Understanding heap data using Windows Performance Analyzer

Rahul Nair — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to collect and analyze heap data using Windows Performance Analyzer.

Introduction to the new WPA user interface

Michael Milirud — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of the new Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) user interface.

Customizing WPA Trace Views

Michael Milirud — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of default assessment views and how to customize assessment views in Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) to speed up the analysis process.

Inside the Windows 8 driver developer workflow

Craig Ziegler, Doron Holan, Janet Schneider — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This chalk talk provides a deep-dive into the Windows driver kit for Windows 8, focusing on architecture changes from Windows 7. The talk will start with a discussion on important feature areas such as project conversion, remote debugging, and building, signing and deploying device drivers. This session will also include an interactive discussion with questions from the audience.

A .NET developer's view of Windows 8 app development

Krzysztof Cwalina — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This chalk talk is intended for C# and VB developers who want to start creating Windows 8 Metro style apps. In this talk, we will introduce a new profile of the .NET Framework for use in building Windows 8 Metro style apps. We'll also describe and discuss the design, architecture, features and limitations of this new profile.

Writing modern C++ code: how C++ has evolved over the years

Herb Sutter — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Many people think of C++ as the same language they experienced in college or just as “C with classes”, but the C++ language has evolved extensively over the years. In this session, we’ll cover how you can use C++ to write innovative, expressive and beautiful apps that deliver power and performance apps. Join us to see how the newly finished C++0x standard can make writing C++ as productive as many other languages.

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The zen of async: Best practices for best performance

Stephen Toub — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The new async support in C# and Visual Basic dramatically simplifies the process of building scalable and responsive apps for the client and cloud. However, while the programming model provided by this async support enables development in a style very reminiscent of synchronous programming, the required mental model and run time costs involved are anything but. In this session, we’ll dive deep into how async works, examining key aspects of the design and implementation that result in overheads when compared to synchronous programming. With that knowledge, we’ll tour through best practices for using async to build high-performing, scalable and responsive apps and libraries.

Future directions for C# and Visual Basic

Anders Hejlsberg — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

In this talk, Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg will share project plans for the future directions of C# and Visual Basic, including a discussion of what trends are influencing and shaping the direction of programming languages. Anders will talk about asynchronous programming and Windows 8 programming, coming in the next version of Visual Studio. He will also discuss the long-lead project “Roslyn”, including object models for code generation, analysis, and refactoring, and upcoming support for scripting and interactive use of C# and Visual Basic.

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Deep dive into the kernel of the .NET Framework

Mark Miller, Pracheeti Nagarkar — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The Common Language Runtime is the cutting-edge virtual machine at the heart of the .NET Framework. In this session, we'll dive deep under the covers of the CLR and discuss some of our key innovations for .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8. Topics will include updates in the code-generation and diagnostics space, improvements in our garbage collector for low latency server scenarios, and automatic NGen.

Building a sample Metro style canvas paint app using HTML

David Owens — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The canvas paint sample is a Metro style app using HTML optimized for painting on a touch surface and taking advantage of local storage. Come and see the author of this app take you through it, explaining what he's learned, to help you get started building your own Metro style apps using HTML.

Introducing the Windows libraries for JavaScript

Chris Tavares — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

In this session, you'll see the Windows libraries for JavaScript, the toolkit developed specifically to build first-class Metro style apps using HTML. You'll see how to define classes and namespaces, how to handle app-level features and events, how to split your app into multiple HTML file fragments and load them as your user navigates between pages of your app, how to use templates and data binding and more. If you're a JavaScript programmer, this session is for you!

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A lap around Visual Studio 11 Express for Metro style apps using C++

Joanna Mason, Vikas Bhatia — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Windows 8 comes with a brand new Metro style app experience where native developers and designers can work in parallel. Ones in behavioral aspects and the others in UI. This talk offers an end-to-end view of the developer experience for this kind of app, from the solution creation to the marketplace publication.

Windows Server 8

Max Herrmann, Bill Laing, Manlio Vecchiet, Mike Neil — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This session will introduce the next release of Windows Server, code-named Windows Server “8”. We will talk about the engineering investments we have done in this release along with their benefits. We will also point out opportunities for developers and hardware partners to expand on the new capabilities in the product. This session will include lots of demos illustrating how Windows Server 8 lets our customers and partners move beyond virtualization and embrace a truly cloud optimized OS.

Improving software quality using Visual Studio 11 C++ Code Analysis

Jason Yang, Vince Smith — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Through this session, learn how to save time and improve customer satisfaction by finding and fixing bugs early in the development process. Visual Studio 11 C++ Code Analysis identifies critical defects that lead to crashes and security vulnerabilities in your C++ apps and drivers at compile time, and gives you the information you need to quickly prioritize and resolve them. Code Analysis is now included in all editions of Visual Studio 11, including Express, and there are many new features to discuss. This session also includes demos, examples and best practices on how to improve the quality of your apps and drivers. Join us to learn how you can use code analysis to develop great software that will delight your customers.

Inside Windows Azure: the cloud operating system

Mark Russinovich — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Mark Russinovich goes under the hood of Microsoft’s new cloud OS . Intended for developers that have already gotten their hands dirty with Windows Azure and understand its basic concepts, this session gives an inside look at the architectural design of Windows Azure’s compute platform. You’ll learn about Microsoft’s data center architecture, what goes on behind the scenes when you deploy and update a Windows Azure app and how it monitors and responds to the health of machines, its own components and the apps it hosts.

New techniques to develop low-latency network apps

Ben Schultz, Ed Briggs, Osman Ertugay — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

For performance-critical apps, every microsecond saved means money. Windows Server 8 makes it possible to increase throughput, handle higher message rates, reduce latency and jitter, and lower CPU usage, all with standard server hardware. The new Registered I/O (RIO) model in Windows 8 delivers a low-latency solution while maintaining on-the-wire compatibility with existing TCP and UDP protocols. Additionally, a new fast path loopback allows high-speed apps to achieve a higher level of performance. Attend this session to learn how to program and tune these new capabilities and to witness them in action.

Windows Runtime internals: understanding "Hello World"

Matt Merry — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The Windows Runtime is a key piece of technology used by all Metro style apps in Windows. How exactly does it work though? You too can become a Windows Runtime Expert by taking a deep dive into the internals of the Windows Runtime using not much more than a new project in Visual Studio and a debugger. After this talk, you will understand how A "Hello World" Metro style app uses the Windows Runtime, enabling you to build better apps.

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Lap around the Windows Runtime

Martyn Lovell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a key piece of technology used by all Metro style apps in Windows. What actually is the Windows Runtime though? This session explores this key question by digging into the concepts of language projections, the WinRT type system and advanced API patterns included in the Windows Runtime. Learn how Windows uses interface patterns combined with language projection to present modern concepts in a natural and familiar way to each programming language.

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Windows Phone: building optimized websites and using the web browser control with IE9

Joe Marini — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Windows Phone ‘Mango’ brings the power of IE9 to the Phone, with its full performance and standards based approach. For the first time, developers will be able to leverage the power of the browser to deliver compelling interactive experiences, both inside and outside the context of a traditional application. Come to this session to get started today leveraging the power of the browser on the phone.

Building Windows runtime sockets apps

Dave Thaler, Peter Smith — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Today's networks have grown more complicated as a result of multihoming, web proxies, security issues, internationalization and other issues. Because dealing with these complexities is hard, it is either ignored or significant resources are spent attempting to do so. In this session, we will demonstrate how the Windows Runtime sockets API simplifies what an app must do to use TCP or UDP. We also will present exciting new functionality, such as proximity discovery and using WebSockets for HTTP proxy traversal, as well as how to handle complex security and cost issues.

Using connected devices in Metro style apps

Jack Tao, Lisa Ong — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

More than ever, consumers carry devices with them to capture, listen, play and consume content. Learn how you can build apps that communicate with these locally connected devices. We will discuss how to leverage standard functionality to hide the nuances and differences between devices from different manufacturers. You will also learn to use a built-in or connected mobile broadband device to send and receive SMS or access the contacts information on a mobile phone.

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Async everywhere: creating responsive APIs & apps

Ben Kuhn — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Responsiveness matters. There's almost nothing as frustrating to customers as an app that is lagging or unresponsive. Apps don't have to be this way! Learn how to use the Windows Runtime async tools to create APIs and apps that are easy to build and a pleasure to use.

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Connecting and sharing with near field communication

Priya Dandawate, Max Morris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

What's cooler than connecting two machines together by tapping them? Leveraging the power of Near Field Communication (NFC) and the new "tap & go" gesture built into Windows 8, you can build powerful new social apps that enable entirely new scenarios your customers have only dreamed of.

The complete developer's guide to the SkyDrive API

Steve Gordon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

More and more users are becoming familiar with the concept of "the Cloud." More than ever, users are storing their data in the Cloud. SkyDrive is one of the world's leading cloud storage and document collaboration services. Learn how you can easily allow your users to read and write documents, photos, and other files from/to their SkyDrive via simple REST APIs.

Understanding VirtualAlloc usage using Windows Performance Analyzer

Rahul Nair — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to collect and analyze virtual data using Windows Performance Analyzer.

Windows 8 kernel debugging: New protocols and certification requirements

Joe Ballantyne, Tanya Radeva — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This session will discuss a new set of capabilities and tools in Windows 8 that simplify PC and device debugging for IHVs and OEMs. Through this session, you will also learn how to meet the debugging requirements for Windows Certification.

Understanding pool usage using Windows Performance Analyzer

Rahul Nair — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to collect and analyze pool data using Windows Performance Analyzer.

Capturing and analyzing performance traces

Michael Milirud — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This video provides an overview of how to capture performance traces quickly and easily and how to analyze them.

Best practices for packaging and distributing device drivers

Chad Siefert — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Device developers spend considerable time and effort properly designing and developing drivers. Once built, they also need to make it easy for consumers, OEMs and enterprises to obtain and install the drivers. This session will discuss best practices for packaging and distributing drivers, and will focus on signing, handling device metadata, Windows Update policies, and the various distribution paths available to driver developers.

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Building great USB 3.0 devices

Jane Lawrence, Yang You — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Building USB 3.0 devices involves electrical circuit design, firmware development and driver development in order to enable custom features. In this session, we will walk through the hardware development lifecycle and provide Windows 8 specific guidelines for creating great USB 3.0 experiences.

Building Metro style apps that connect to specialized devices

George Roussos, Nar Ganapathy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Windows 8 enables device makers to extend the built-in device experiences through differentiated Metro style device apps in several device categories. For the broad set of devices that do not fit those categories, whether using native Windows components or custom drivers, Windows also provides a mechanism for creating and delivering custom experiences. This session describes key concepts and recommendations on how to enable and build Metro style apps for such devices.

Delivering great hardware solutions for Windows

Kevin Miller — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Microsoft has made significant investments in Windows 8 to improve the end-to-end experience for partners when creating hardware offerings. This session will provide an overview of modern engineering tools and systems, and associated lifecycles, for developing hardware add-ons for Windows. This will include an overview on design principles, driver development tools, assessment and certification tools, as well as discussion on vehicles for customer and partner connection.

Connecting Windows 8 to mobile broadband and Wi-Fi networks

Billy Anders, Khawar Zuberi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Connectivity is the underpinning of today’s computing experience. Windows 8 introduces many new features and experiences that will make it easier to get and stay connected on Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks. This session will provide an overview of the Windows 8 connectivity investments and experiences, including plan selection, over-the-air provisioning, account management, intelligent network selection and network-aware app behavior.

Building a great Metro style device app for your camera

Mehmet Kucukgoz, Khurram Zia — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Windows 8 makes it easy to build an app that brings out the unique capabilities of your camera. In this session you will learn how to build a Metro style device app that is automatically installed with the camera. This session will also cover how developers can use Windows APIs to bring branded video and photo capabilities to their own Metro style apps.

NDIS Driver Testing and Certification (Part I, II, & III)

Michael Nanakul, AJ - Aniruddha Jahagirdar — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Windows 8 has updated the NDIS test and certification program to improve driver quality. This session will cover the NDISTest integration in Windows Kits, new requirements for certifying Ethernet devices, and leveraging NDISTest to debug a variety of NDIS drivers.

Windows Certification Program, process and tools

David Edfeldt, Dilesh Dhokia, Jacob Johansen, Paul Reed, Tim Campbell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

This chalk talk provides the opportunity to have an in-depth discussion about the Windows Certification Program - centered on its policies, process, and tools. The format for this session will be an interactive discussion based on questions from the audience.

Chalk talk for sensor and location support in Windows

Gavin Gear, Dino Natucci, Fred Bhesania, Sandy Spinrad — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:59 GMT

Windows 8 introduces a new sensors and location platform that enables the creation of new apps and experiences. This chalk talk will cover sensor design, board placement layout, calibration and validation tools. We will also cover in-box sensors, location experiences and drivers. This talk will be interactive and questions from the audience are encouraged.

Building a great Metro style device app for your printer

Marc Pottier — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:57 GMT

Windows 8 introduces a new print experience for apps that implement the new print contract. This experience can be extended to your printer with a Metro style app that is automatically installed with the device. In this session, you will learn how to develop an app that can access printer status, customize the print experience with differentiated device capabilities and report printer status through notifications.

Networking for connected standby

Andrew Ritz, Mahender Hari — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:56 GMT

Windows 8 allows you to build PCs that are always connected to the Internet and deliver great battery life. This session will cover new network power management innovations that help PCs meet this goal with the help of the right network hardware.

Building hardware-based security with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Rob Spiger, Stefan Thom — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:56 GMT

Windows 8 makes TPM hardware based security easy by automatically provisioning the TPM and providing new APIs and features. This session describes how customers benefit from having a system with a TPM and how to build Windows 8 apps that work with different TPM hardware.

Delivering great performance and battery life

Jason Hendrickson, Sharif Farag — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:56 GMT

Windows 8 runs efficiently on a broader range of systems. This session will cover how to create high-performance and energy efficient experiences on the full spectrum of Windows 8 platforms. You will learn software design and development practices that maximize the performance of apps and power consumption as a whole. We will also discuss how the Windows team approaches development to scale across systems and how you can apply the same techniques to your software and drivers.

Understanding Connected Standby

Stephen Berard, Pat Stemen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:56 GMT

In Windows 8, Microsoft introduces Connected Standby - a new power state that enables compatible PCs to be always reachable and up-to-date. This session will provide an overview of Connected Standby, including key user scenarios, system architecture and technical requirements.

Understanding Wi-Fi networking in Windows 8

Drew Baron, Mitesh Desai — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:56 GMT

Windows 8 is designed to provide a connected experience to users on a broad range of device form factors. In order to get and keep users connected to the Internet, the Windows team has made significant investments in Wi-Fi connectivity. This session will cover new Windows 8 Wi-Fi functionality, as well as improvements in connection times and power consumption.

Understanding mobile broadband and connection management in Windows 8

Mike Bishop, Srini Malayala — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:55 GMT

Windows 8 is designed to provide a connected experience to users on a broad range of device form factors. In order to get and keep users connected to the Internet, the Windows team has made significant investments in mobile broadband and connection management. This session will cover purchasing and provisioning mobile broadband data plans, network cost awareness, and leveraging the in-box class driver for mobile broadband devices.

Understanding Wi-Fi Direct in Windows 8

Mitesh Desai, Yatharth Gupta — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:55 GMT

Wi-Fi Direct is a new peer-to-peer device connectivity technology that enables high-bandwidth sharing of media and content between devices without requiring a separate Wi-Fi access point. Windows 8 natively supports Wi-Fi Direct and has integrated the technology into the Windows 8 Play To and proximity sharing experiences. In this session, you will learn how to build great devices that take advantage of Wi-Fi Direct connectivity and the Windows 8 in-box device experiences.

Using the Windows Driver Framework to build better drivers

Abhishek Ram, Peter Wieland — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:55 GMT

The Windows Driver Framework (WDF) helps developers build better drivers, more quickly and easily. This session will discuss how the WDF can improve driver reliability and will provide an overview on what’s new in the WDF in Windows 8 This session will also cover guidance for how to better realize power-savings and deploy drivers on multiple versions of Windows.

Building great Metro style apps for mobile broadband devices

Dhiraj Gandhi, Samer Sawaya, Noel Anderson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:55 GMT

The emergence of mobile broadband technology provides a new source of internet connectivity at home or on the go. To make it easy for customers to find, purchase and use mobile broadband, Windows 8 integrates it into the Windows Connection Manager and enables mobile network operators to create Metro style apps to manage services. This session will focus on how to customize the built-in experience for mobile broadband, as well as best practices for creating a Metro style app using the mobile broadband API’s in Windows.

Simplifying wireless and network device discovery and pairing

Dave Roth, Jeffrey Chang — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:55 GMT

Demand for wireless and network devices, including printers, connected TVs and keyboards are increasing steadily. Windows 8 makes it easy to connect devices to the PC by automatically detecting and installing network printers and TVs, enabling proximity-based device pairing and providing a new Metro style device discovery and pairing user experience. In this session, learn how device makers can participate in the new Windows 8 device pairing model to improve the experience and reduce the complexity for customers connecting devices to Windows.

Designing systems and developing drivers for NFC

Priya Dandawate, Max Morris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:53 GMT

Windows 8 couples a simple user experience with rich developer APIs enabling apps to communicate with nearby PCs and devices using Near field communication (NFC). This session will provide an overview of the built-in scenarios and developer opportunities. We will also discuss hardware considerations for various form factors, technical requirements for driver development, as well as certification requirements.

Understanding USB 3.0 in Windows 8

Kristina Hotz, Eliyas Yakub — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:53 GMT

With throughput up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and improved power management, USB 3.0 is the latest release of the world’s most popular PC interface. In this talk, you will learn how USB 3.0 is integrated into Windows 8 and hear Microsoft’s recommendations and requirements for taking advantage of this new technology.

Integrating Bluetooth on low-power buses

Abhinav Gupta, Alain Michaud — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:53 GMT

Bluetooth technology enhances mobility by providing a low-power wireless connectivity option. For systems targeted at lower power consumption, transport connectivity of Bluetooth controllers plays a key role in designing an energy efficient platform. This means adding support for lower power buses while delivering high-quality end-user experiences. Learn about the Bluetooth stack’s architectural changes, integration with the power management framework, new vendor-specific customizations, and best practices for integrating such Bluetooth controllers into your systems.

Connecting Bluetooth Low Energy devices to Windows

Alain Michaud, Ellick Sung — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:53 GMT

Until now, low power wireless connectivity in PC’s has required using proprietary technologies that incur the cost and complexity of shipping an external dongle. Bluetooth LE enables these same low power scenarios using a standard Bluetooth radio and creates the opportunity to connect Windows with a wide range of new devices. In this session, you will learn more about this new technology and how device makers can use Bluetooth LE to integrate low power devices with Windows.

Introducing low-power buses for Windows 8

John Felkins, Peter Wieland — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:53 GMT

The world of System on Chip (SoC) has changed the way devices are connected inside a PC. Windows 8 introduces support for low-power internal buses such as I2C, SPI, GPIO, and High Speed UARTs. In this session, we will demonstrate the end-to-end story on how to integrate a device on the new buses and create a driver. You will learn how to write ACPI to enumerate your peripheral and get started writing and testing a peripheral driver.

Running Windows from an external USB drive with Windows To Go

Arvind Padole, Steve Silverberg — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:51 GMT

Windows To Go is a new feature in Windows 8 that enables enterprise administrators to create USB drives containing complete, managed Windows images that users can use to boot and run Windows on any Windows 7 or Windows 8 capable computer. Windows To Go makes it possible for employees to use a managed device whether they work from home, a client office or in a free seating environment. This session will discuss Windows To Go, its hardware requirements and building compatible and complementary software.

Chalk talk: transitioning from XDDM to WDDM

Akshay Agrawal, Roger Coote — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:51 GMT

In this session, technology experts from the Windows Graphics team will discuss how to transition from writing XDDM drivers to writing WDDM drivers. Using server and virtualization concepts, you will learn new scenarios enabled by WDDM and steps for writing a WDDM driver for XDDM hardware.

Certifying graphics experiences on Windows 8

Rudolph Balaz — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:51 GMT

Microsoft has improved the Windows Certification Program for Windows 8, in order to drive high quality graphics experiences. This session will help you plan and develop graphics drivers that are certified for Windows. You will learn about new certification requirements, key testing scenarios and measuring graphics driver performance with the Windows Hardware Certification Kit.

Understanding the Windows 8 graphics driver model

Ameet Chitre, Roger Coote — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:51 GMT

In Windows 8, the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) has evolved through several innovations in the graphics sub-system that will enable you to deliver great Windows user and developer experiences. This session will cover how to design and build Windows 8 systems with WDDM capable hardware and drivers.

Building great touch systems

Jerry Koh, Steve Welch, Takahiro Shigemitsu — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:51 GMT

Windows 8 introduces a number of new touch experiences and capabilities. This session will provide an overview of how to build and test great touch systems running Windows 8. You will learn about the Windows 8 user experience and certification requirements, new tools for validating and measuring the touch user experience on different hardware platform, as well as considerations for overall system integration.

Building high quality Windows PCs using the assessment and deployment kit

Michael Beck — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:50 GMT

The Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) provides tools that make it easier to build high-quality Windows PCs. This session will discuss new features in the ADK that can help you measure, compare and improve the experiences your Windows PCs delivers. This includes discussion on how to easily evaluate the impact of customizations, drivers, software and hardware on system performance as well as responsiveness, and energy efficiency. The session will also demonstrate how to run and collect assessments within the Windows Assessment Console and Windows Performance Analyzer to highlight and investigate common issues.

Reducing the memory footprint of drivers and apps

Joe Laughlin, Rahul Nair — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:50 GMT

Windows 8 makes it easy for developers to reduce memory consumption of drivers and apps. This session will introduce the key investments that make this possible, such as pool and heap manager. It also will discuss best practices and tools for optimizing driver and app memory footprint.

Windows Phone: building apps that customers love, end to end

Larry Lieberman, Adam Denning — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:47 GMT

Making money is important! In this sessions we’ll review all the steps in building an app for Windows Phone, and we’ll relate the secrets of the masters for maximizing your impact.

Best practices for writing safe and secure Metro style apps using HTML5

David Weston, Kamen Moutafov — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:47 GMT

As you build your Metro style app using HTML5, follow these concrete and useful best practices to ensure it is safe and secure. In this session, you will learn patterns for handling untrusted input, working with Web content and protecting sensitive data thereby inspiring confidence in your users that your app will keep their data safe.

The lifetime of XAML text: from input to display through printing

Chipalo Street — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:47 GMT

Windows 8 includes major investments to the text and printing experiences. Follow an app from creation through printing as a guide to XAML text and integration of Metro style apps with the Print charm.

Build data-driven collection and list apps using XAML

Laurence Moroney — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:47 GMT

Discover how to build on basic collections and lists by bringing live data from cloud and local sources into your app and use the ListView control to present your data in an engaging and interactive way. Use templating and data binding features, create custom adapters to interface with your data sources, and handle virtualization, grouping, editing and change notifications to create a seamless app experience.

Reach all your customer's devices with one beautiful XAML user interface

Tim Heuer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

Windows runs on a broad array of devices and form factors. Get your app on all the devices your customers use by building a great user experience that adapts to different screen sizes, aspect ratios and pixel densities using XAML. Learn how your app can take advantage of new multi-tasking views and orientations and see how easy it is to build apps that look great on different screen sizes and on high pixel density screens.

Create reusable custom Metro style controls

Jeff Fisher — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

Build special purpose JavaScript controls that can be reused across multiple apps. Learn how the WinJS framework provides everything you need to create flexible event-driven controls that can be used both declaratively and imperatively. Get a rich styling experience for your controls in Blend. Go green and recycle your code today!

Reaching more customers with accessible Metro style apps in HTML5

Guy Barker — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

Create and build accessible Metro style apps to reach more customers. Accessibility support is built into each stage of creating an app and includes accessible templates, samples, controls and accessibility testing tools. Come learn how to make your apps accessible in screen reading, keyboard navigation and visual experience with a minimal amount of effort. You will also learn how to make your app more visible and how to sell your app in the Windows Store.

Windows Phone user experience design

Bryan Agnetta — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

Windows Phone pioneered the ‘Metro’ design language, the popular, iconic user interface paradigm used by thousands of apps to give end users a common basis from which to interact with their device. In this session, we’ll drill in depth on what ‘Metro’ is, and how to leverage its full power in your apps.

Windows Phone XAML apps

Jesse Liberty — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

How do I use XAML to build outstanding apps for Windows Phone, using Visual Studio and Expression Blend? In this session we'll walk you through the steps from start to finish.

Windows Phone: how to build a game

Charles Cox — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:45 GMT

Learn how to build great games for Windows Phone with XNA Game Studio. Dive deep into the game-ready graphics, audio, and input capabilities of the phone, get up to speed about the new features for game developers in Mango, and learn how to build a game in minutes with the power of the XNA Framework and Content Pipeline.

Integrating stunning media experiences in XAML

Marco Matos — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:44 GMT

Come learn how to bring your app to life with rich audio and video. You’ll discover how your existing XAML skills enable you to capture, enhance, and play video on external devices—using the familiar MediaElement and new MediaPlayer control. You’ll learn how to add closed captioning to videos, utilize the Media Library on your user’s machine, and play audio tracks while your app is in the background. You’ll see an end-to-end demonstration about building media experiences that keep your customer’s attention.

Metro style apps using XAML: Make your app shine

Marco Matos — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

You’ve built your first basic Metro style app in XAML and now you’re ready to dive into the specifics of deeply integrating it with Windows. Come discover how you can deliver a first-class experience using new Windows 8 concepts. You’ll learn about the new activation model, how to incorporate navigation and charms into your app, as well as supporting the new lifetime model for Windows Metro style apps. We’ll build a completely integrated app and teach you how to take your Metro style app to the next level!

Build accessible Metro style apps using XAML

Alnur Ismail — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

Microsoft has designed a flexible architecture enabling developers to create accessible Metro style apps quickly using XAML. This chalk talk is targeted at getting developers the information they need to make fully accessible apps.

Build world-ready Metro style apps using XAML

Tim Heuer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

Ready to take your app global? We've designed a flexible architecture enabling developers to quickly create a fully localized Metro style app using XAML in a 'language pack' style of development. This session will show you how to easily localize string-based content in your app, fully localize your XAML layout, and quickly update your app by adding language support at any time.

Build polished collection and list apps using XAML

Hamid Mahmood — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

Learn exciting ways to expose collections of data using the new XAML List controls, a fast and easy way to make collections take on the Windows 8 look and feel. Come and learn about the powerful capabilities of these controls and best practices to make your app really shine.

The web-to-Windows journey: turning your web assets into a Windows app

Edgar Banguero, Jerome Holman, Rey Bango — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

You already have a Web app on the Internet and want to reach customers with a new, targeted experience on Windows. Come get practical guidance on how to reuse your Web assets while avoiding common pitfalls. You'll learn techniques for turning your HTML5, CSS and JavaScript into a great Windows app including touch-enablement, adopting the Windows look and feel, and system integration. You'll be armed with shortcuts, tips, and expert advice that’ll accelerate your move from Web to Windows Metro style apps.

Make great touch apps using XAML

Alnur Ismail — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

Build great touch apps for Windows 8 using XAML touch and gesture events. Learn how to create touch experiences using standard controls and behaviors and build highly responsive panning and zooming capabilities that customers will love. This session will also describe how to include mouse interaction with no additional work, and how to handle multiple types of input in a unified way.

Stand out with styling and animation in your XAML app

John Papa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:42 GMT

Get all of the tips and tricks you need to infuse your distinct brand into your apps, while still taking advantage of the familiarity of Windows through styling and animations. Use Visual Studio Express and the power of XAML styling and templating to customize the look and feel of your apps and to more easily style the individual XAML controls. See how fast animations in the animation library and custom XAML animations bring your app to life and engage customers.

Code with confidence: dynamic web content in Metro style apps using HTML5

John Hazen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:41 GMT

Through this session, learn how to take full advantage of local computer devices and resources without sacrificing traditional Web content and services. Come to this session to learn how Windows 8 enables you to integrate these capabilities in your apps while minimizing the risks associated with accessing content from the Web, even from untrusted sources. You will see how easy it is to bring your Metro style apps to life with dynamic content, Web data feeds, and OAuth-based services while maintaining the integrity of your Windows app.

Reach a worldwide audience by building a world-ready app

Kipling Knox — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:41 GMT

Learn how to build Metro style apps for customers in any market or language. Get an overview of the easy steps required to make a world-ready app, and learn how to use localization and formatting APIs with familiar HTML5 and XAML programming concepts.

Real time communication: keep your Metro style app connected whether it is running or suspended

Kamal Srinivasan, Raghu Gatta — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:40 GMT

In this session we will discuss Metro style communication apps. Come see how your VoIP, instant messaging, or e-mail app can stay available and connected while it’s being managed by Windows. You will learn what your customers will experience when Windows manages these apps. We’ll deep dive into the APIs for writing Real Time Communication triggers including network, system, and time events. You will then be ready to build that awesome communication app that your customers can’t stop using.

Integrating with the Windows device experience

Marc Pottier — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:40 GMT

Your Metro style app can easily reach beyond the Windows PC. Using the Devices charm , learn how your app can support printing app on most printers, how to play media content to TVs and audio systems and how to send files and other content to nearby PCs and other devices.

Search: integrating into the Windows 8 search experience

Priya Vaidyanathan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:40 GMT

Will users of your Metro style app need to search through the app’s content? Come learn to leverage the Windows search contract to allow your app to search local files, an existing web service, or custom data. By the end, you will know how to make searching within your app reachable from anywhere in the OS, the right design and code patterns to use when implementing search from any language, and how to customize the experience and take advantage of built-in features.

Share: your app powers the Windows 8 share experience

Billie Sue Chafins, Steve Seixeiro — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:40 GMT

Now that you know how contracts work in Windows 8, come learn how to leverage the Windows Share contract in your Metro style app. You’ll discover how to help your customers easily share content from your app through other apps installed on their PC. You’ll be ready to leverage Windows Share to connect your customers to the people and apps they care about.

Designing Metro style apps that are touch-optimized

Kay Hofmeester, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:39 GMT

Get the knowledge and guidance needed to build an app for an intuitive, powerful touch experience. Understand how touch design principles are firmly grounded in customer needs of comfort and utility. Discover how your app can use Windows 8 touch language and patterns, capabilities like smart targeting and semantic zoom, and new interactions like “slide to select” and “hold to learn” to engage your customers.

Stand out with styling in your HTML app

Chris Jones, Phil Cupp — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:38 GMT

Combine your own app’s style with the familiar Windows personality. Use Blend and the power of CSS to customize the look and feel of your app, style the individual HTML and WinJS controls, and the elements within them. Infuse your app with your distinct character while keeping Windows' great touch interaction, performance, and accessibility.

Create Metro style apps quickly with built-in controls

Paul Gusmorino, Sean Hume — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

Windows 8 introduces a new and ready-to-use set of user interface controls to help create beautiful Metro style apps quickly. Learn about these powerful and highly-flexible controls and how to use them to implement the common patterns that deliver great Windows 8 Metro style apps.

Build data-driven collection and list apps using ListView in HTML5

James Clarke, Sam Spencer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

Discover how to build on basic collections and lists by bringing live data from cloud and local sources into your app, and use the ListView control to present your data in an engaging and interactive way. Use templating and data binding features, create custom adapters to interface with your data sources, and handle virtualization, grouping, editing and change notifications to create a seamless app experience.

Build polished collection and list apps in HTML5

Ryan Demopoulos — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

At this session, learn exciting ways to expose collections of content using the ListView control, a fast and easy way to make collections take on the Windows 8 look and feel. Come and learn about the powerful capabilities of this control and best practices to make your app shine.

Reach your customers’ devices with one beautiful HTML5 user interface

Markus Mielke, David Washington — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

Get your app on all the devices your customers use by building a great user experience that adapts to different screen sizes, aspect ratios and pixel densities using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Through this session, learn how your app can take advantage of new multi-tasking views and orientations and see how easy it is to build apps that look great on different screen sizes and on high-pixel density screens.

Bring apps to life with Metro style animations in HTML5

Dale Rogerson, Jason Beaumont — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

Animations are fundamental in making Metro style apps lively and beautiful. Discover the animation library in Windows 8 and see how to bring these great animations to your apps with standard CSS 3.0 transitions and animations. In this session, you will learn how using standard templates and controls bring these polished animations along for free. You will also explore the library and learn how to add these smooth and elegant animations and transitions from the Windows 8 personality to your app’s experience!

Build assistive technologies for Windows 8

Brett Humphrey — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:37 GMT

Windows 8 is a great platform for creating assistive technologies for customers with disabilities. Learn how the platform, apps, and devices allow you to build varied assistive technologies. Explore how you can bring your existing technologies to Windows 8 and create new capabilities using touch and UI automation. Grow your business by helping customers with varying abilities get the most from Windows 8.

Build advanced touch apps in Windows 8

Reed Townsend — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:36 GMT

Dive into Windows Runtime and Win32 support for advanced touch and gesture input. Learn how to access rich touch input properties with PointerPoints, use flexible componentized gesture detection with GestureRecognizer, and work with touch and pointer device properties using PointerDevice. We’ll explore how apps can use Touch Targeting APIs to provide a better targeting experience and give an overview of touch APIs available to developers of desktop applications. Extend what you can do in HTML and XAML and take full advantage of the Windows Runtime touch and gesture platform.

Make great Metro style apps that are touch-optimized using HTML5

Reed Townsend, Nick Waggoner — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:36 GMT

Build great Windows 8 Metro style apps that are touch-optimized using HTML technologies and DOM touch and gesture events. Learn how to create touch experiences using standard controls and behaviors, and build highly responsive panning and zooming capabilities that customers will love. This session will also teach you how to include mouse interaction with no additional work, and handle multiple types of input in a unified way.

Building high performance Metro style apps using HTML5

Mathias Jourdain — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:36 GMT

Now that you are familiar with writing Metro style apps using HTML5, come learn how to make your apps fast and responsive. In this session, we'll cover best practices to keep your app's UI thread unblocked, methods guaranteed to speed up your app's load times, and techniques to tune your app's performance and power consumption.

Enabling trials and in-app offers in your Metro style app

Arik Cohen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:35 GMT

Customers love to try an app before they buy it. Come learn how the Windows Store makes it easy for you to offer time-limited or feature-limited trial versions of your apps as well as how to create and capture ongoing value using in-app commerce.

Prepare your apps for Windows 8 and beyond

Uday Shivaswamy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:28 GMT

Do you have existing Windows apps? We'll show you the "compatible by design" principles and features of Windows 8 for future-ready desktop apps. Through this session, you will discover how to make your desktop apps work harmoniously alongside Metro style apps and how to position your app for the future by applying new Metro style design principles.

Delivering great device installation experiences

Adam Lenart, Cameron Brodeur, Chris Matichuk — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Installing device drivers may be one the first experiences users have with your apps, and you want to leave a great impression. Windows 8 contains a number of features that make installing device drivers easier and faster than ever. This session focuses on best practices for authoring INF files that take advantage of Windows 8 performance improvements, assuring successful deployments, achieving device interoperability with Metro style apps, and eliminating co-installers from installation paths. Experts also will be on-hand to answer your device driver packaging questions.

Building great Windows 8 systems

Dennis Flanagan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows 8 introduces several new features that enable PC makers to build compelling systems that are fast, fun, secure, power efficient and connect to devices customers care about. This session will provide an overview of the Windows 8 touch, graphics, power, bus, sensor, networking and hardware-based security investments and provide pointers to sessions that go into depth on each area.

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Reimagining the experience for connecting with devices

Craig Zhou, Robin Goldstein — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Today’s consumer electronic devices are more capable and more connected to apps and services than ever before. In Windows 8, we have made significant improvements in the experience connecting with and using these devices. In this session, you will learn about how Windows 8 makes it simple to connect devices using new connection technologies. You will also learn about the new built-in experiences for devices that ensure your device is ready to use right out of the box. This session will also cover how Metro style apps for devices make it easy to differentiate your device in the marketplace.

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Certifying hardware with the Windows Hardware Certification Kit

Craig Rowland — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

The Windows Hardware Certification Kit (formerly the Windows Logo Kit) has a completely new design that will shorten learning curves for new users, and make experienced users more productive. It also has, for the first time, a complete automation interface which enables partners to execute end-to-end testing via scripts. The kit has also been enhanced to be multi-function, multi-platform and multi-feature aware. This session will introduce the new user interface, object model and aspects of feature-based testing. It will also include walkthroughs of certification activities using both the direct user interface and automation interfaces.

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Improving code quality with Windows error reporting

Darren McKenzie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows contains a number of features that enable customers to send feedback to Microsoft about the apps and drivers they use. This session will provide information on how to use that feedback data to improve your software. Specific areas of focus will include how to obtain feedback data from Microsoft’s web portal, and via web services, in addition to how to automate consuming this information within your engineering systems.

Improving performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit

Michael Milirud — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) is a powerful tool, used widely by the Windows engineering team within Microsoft, for improving application and system performance. This session will focus on providing you with tips and tricks, in a case study format with videos, for using the WPT along with WPS traces to optimize your own apps.

Delivering a secure and fast boot experience with UEFI

Arie van der Hoeven — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode and Secure Boot are critically important to creating a more secure platform. This session will discuss the benefits of UEFI, including key features of Windows 8 that depend on UEFI, such as BitLocker and Seamless Boot. This session also will cover technical details of UEFI and updates to ACPI requirements.

Designing great devices and drivers

Jim Cavalaris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Great devices that delight users and work well with Windows are the result of thoughtful design. This session will discuss various elements device developers need to consider when designing devices and drivers. Elements covered will include best practices, taking advantage of new features in Windows 8, and designing driver interfaces.

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Introducing Metro style device apps

Eugene Lin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Device makers often create apps as a way to differentiate their device experience and highlight device capabilities. Windows 8 makes this easy to do with new Metro style device apps that enable device makers to build and deliver unique experiences for their devices. This session will provide an overview of Metro style device apps, including how apps can extend the built-in device experiences and integrate with the Windows 8 user interface.

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Windows Certification: improvements to the logo program

Oscar Koenders — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

The Windows Logo program has undergone significant changes during Windows 8 to make it more beneficial for you and our partners. This session will provide an overview of the program’s key changes, and will describe the new unified experience for certifying hardware and apps across all Windows platforms.

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Moving driver quality upstream with WDK driver verification and test tools

Jakob Lichtenberg, Khuram Shahid — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

The WDK Driver Verification and Test Tools enable driver developers to resolve issues sooner in the development lifecycle. This enables developers to build drivers in a more timely and predictable manner, and lower the cost of development, testing and long term support. Topics for this session will include the Static Driver Verifier, Code Analysis, Driver Verifier, Device Fundamental Tests and guidance on how to run each from the new Visual Studio WDK environment.

Connecting printing devices to Windows using v4 printer drivers

Justin Hutchings, Frank Gorgenyi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows 8 introduces Version 4 of the printer driver model which provides support across all device architectures, enables custom printer experiences that extend Metro style apps, and reduces the need for compiled 3rd party code. This session will focus on the v4 driver model architecture and developer tool support, as well as how to build customized driver user interfaces using current app frameworks.

Developing drivers in Visual Studio

Doron Holan, Kevin Miller — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

This session will present an overview on how to develop drivers in Visual Studio using the new Windows Developer Kit (WDK) add-on pack. Topics will include developing, building, packaging, signing, deploying, debugging, testing and verifying device drivers – all within Visual Studio.

Building great networked media devices for Play To apps

Edwin Heredia, Zane Salim — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows 7 introduced Play To in order for customers to view media content on TVs or on compatible media receivers. Windows 8 extends Play To experiences to Metro style apps and HTML5 web pages.This session will cover the experience principles, app architectures and certification requirements necessary to build network media devices that work great with Play To apps.

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Advanced app and driver debugging

George Holt, Joe Ballantyne — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

This session will discuss several new ways you can implement advanced debugging of apps and device drivers. The presenters in this session will also share their tips and tricks for debugging across multiple platforms.

Tools for building Metro style apps

Chris Sells, Kieran Mockford — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Tools for building Metro style apps

Platform for Metro style apps

Aleš Holeček, John Sheehan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Platform for Metro style apps

8 traits of great Metro style apps

Jensen Harris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

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Windows Phone app performance and optimization

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Is your app as fast as it can be on Windows Phone? There are many details to wringing out the maximum amount of performance on the Windows Phone platform. In this session, the experts will drill in depth on how to create the outstanding app performance that is key to winning the audience on Windows Phone.

Windows Phone multitasking

Peter Torr — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows Phone ‘Mango’ brings developers the ability to deliver several different types of multitasking scenarios to the end user. In this code focused session, we’ll drill in depth on what these are and how to add multitasking to your existing Windows Phone app today.

Power your app with Live services

Dare Obasanjo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows 8 enables users to log into any device with a single Microsoft account and continuously interact with your app on all of their devices. Your customers will expect the ability to bring their documents, photos, videos, and contacts with them as they move between their devices. Come see how you can enable great on-the-go experiences by integrating Live services into your app. You’ll learn how to take advantage of single sign on using a Microsoft account instead of creating your own authentication infrastructure. You’ll also see how to use the SkyDrive service for free cloud-based storage of your customers’ photos, videos, and documents. We’ll dive into the details of the Live SDK and show how to use Visual Studio to easily enable these experiences.

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Metro style apps using HTML5 from start to finish

Scott Dickens, Harris Syed — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Get started writing Metro style apps using your HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS skills today! Come dive into the specifics of this exciting platform and see how you can use your Web skills to build deeply-integrated Windows apps. You’ll discover how this mirrors or differs from traditional Web programming and how to harness the rich capabilities of Windows 8 through JavaScript and the Windows Runtime. You’ll also learn proper navigation techniques, how to manage your app’s state, and how to incorporate the Windows look and feel into your app. This foundational session will arm you with everything you need to know to build Metro style apps with the skills you already have.

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Metro style apps using XAML: what you need to know

Joe Stegman — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

If you are experienced with .NET or C++ and are already familiar with XAML, come learn everything you need to know to create a Metro style app for Windows 8. This session will cover updates to familiar features including basic controls, styling, and data-binding, and explore concepts that are new for Windows 8. Discover how you can build an amazing experience that is driven by touch, uses new Windows controls, and integrates well with Windows 8. This foundational session will show you how to turn your XAML skills into money making Metro style apps.

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Fundamentals of Metro style apps: how and when your app will run

Ben Srour — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

As your customers move your app between the foreground and background, Windows manages your app’s usage of critical system resources. Come learn the fundamentals of Process Lifetime Management and how to structure your app to suspend and resume quickly, save app state properly, and behave consistently. We will also highlight ways to keep your app fresh using push notifications and tile interactivity. Understanding these critical concepts will help you deliver a continuous experience that customers expect.

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How to declare your app’s capabilities

Jeff Johnson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Do you want to build an app that takes a photo through the PC’s camera for a profile pic? Do you want your app to be aware of its current location or enable device proximity scenarios? Do you want customers to rave about how your app uses the files, pictures, videos, and docs from the file system? Windows 8 has a declarative capability model that allows apps to access the PC resources they require. Come learn how to build on it.

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Using tiles and notifications

Kip Olson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Draw users back into your app by taking full advantage of your tile in the Start screen. Learn how to make your app look great with tiles that come alive with content and notifications delivered through the Windows Push Notification Service. We also will teach you how to create content tiles that let users personalize their Start screen by creating deep links to specific places within your app.

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Designing Metro style: principles and personality

Samuel Moreau — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Windows 8 marks the next step in the evolution of the Metro design style. Through the bold use of color, typography and motion, Metro design style brings a fresh new approach to user experience. In this talk, Director of User Experience Design and Research, Sam Moreau will share the design principles behind Metro and provide insights for how to apply these principles in apps that you build.

Introducing the Windows Store

Ted Dworkin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT

If you’ve got an idea for the next breakthrough app, come to this session to learn how to take that next app and create a business that runs at the scale of Windows. Get a sneak peak at the submission process and learn how the Windows Store has been designed for easy discoverability of your app. See the many ways you can monetize your app across a global audience and learn how Windows Store analytics and feedback help you understand and adapt your app’s user experience.

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