Join thousands of developers worldwide, November 9-11, 2012, as we build apps for the next generation of Windows.
There will be dozens of event venues from college campuses to Microsoft offices, all buzzing with energy, music, free food and more. New venues being added daily – check back to find the event near you.
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WOWZAPP 2012 Finland Start of the Event
Helsinki, Finland is one of the anchor points for WOWZAPP 2012. Check out the start of the event with Andrew Parsons, Clint Rutkas, and Windows developers.
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HTML5 games, go from 5 to 8!
It's game on for HTML5! In the past few years, HTML5 games have taken off and turned the web into a viable gaming platform, but native game platforms continue to have significant advantages for game developers. With the HTML5 windows 8 app development environment, you can have those advantages too. This...
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Game Development
Andrew will talk about the variety of options you have at hand if you want to develop games for Windows 8. From DirectX/C++ for raw processing power, to engines like Construct2 to do a lot of hard work for you.
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Using Team Foundation Service to host your project
Team Foundation Service provides you with everything you need to host your project?s source code, requirements, bugs, and organize your team members and schedules. Teams of up to five can use the service for free ? which makes it a perfect option for storing your WOWZAPP project. In this session you...
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Windows Azure Mobile Services
The best Windows 8 apps are connected to the cloud. In this presentation you will see how to use Windows Azure Mobile Services to add structured storage, integrated authentication and even Push Notifications to your Windows 8 Store app in minutes.
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Data Binding with XAML
Learn about the power of Data Binding with XAML in Windows 8. I will show you how to bind your data model to UI Elements and UI Collections, and I will go over two-way binding and IConverters.
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Live Tiles and Notifications
Learn how to make your app alive with activity using Tiles and Notifications. See how to use Periodic, Push or Scheduled Notifications when app is not running and leverage Windows Azure to provide cloud service infrastructure.
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File Pickers
Learn how to use the file picker to allow the user to choose and save files through your app.
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Building world-ready Windows Store apps with XAML
With the Windows Store you can publish your app in more than 200 markets, with a reach of over 4.5 billion people. To support that global reach, Windows 8 will ship with 109 languages and is designed to work better in more locales all over the world. With Visual Studio, it has never been easier to build...