BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.
Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.
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Taming GPU compute with C++ AMP- Daniel Moth
- Visual Studio, C++
- TOOL-802T
- Day 4
- September 16, 2011 from 9:00AM to 10:00AM
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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... -
Search: integrating into the Windows 8 search experience- Priya Vaidyanathan
- Metro style apps, Charms
- APP-406T
- Day 3
- September 15, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM
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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... -
Fundamentals of Metro style apps: how and when your app will run- Ben Srour
- Metro style apps
- APP-409T
- Day 2
- September 14, 2011 from 11:30AM to 12:30PM
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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....
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Reach your customers’ devices with one beautiful HTML5 user interface- Markus Mielke, David Washington
- Metro style apps, HTML5 and JavaScript
- APP-207T
- Day 2
- September 14, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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... -
Windows Phone user experience design- Bryan Agnetta
- User Experience, Windows Phone
- APP-832T
- Day 4
- September 16, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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.... -
Metro style apps using HTML5 from start to finish- Scott Dickens, Harris Syed
- Metro style apps, HTML5 and JavaScript
- APP-740T
- Day 2
- September 14, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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...
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Metro style apps using XAML: Make your app shine- Marco Matos
- Metro style apps, UI Platform, XAML
- APP-741T
- Day 2
- September 14, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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... -
Ten Tips When Writing a Hybrid Language Metro style Application- Brent Rector
- Metro style apps, Windows Runtime, C++
- PLAT-876T
- Day 4
- September 16, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM
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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... -
WebMatrix: uber geek in designer clothes- Vishal R. Joshi
- HTML5 and JavaScript, SQL, ASP.NET
- TOOL-825T
- Day 4
- September 16, 2011 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM
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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,... -
Tips and tricks for developing Metro style apps using C++- Tarek Madkour
- Metro style apps, XAML, C++
- TOOL-845T
- Day 3
- September 15, 2011 from 2:30PM to 3:30PM
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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...
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