Peter_Torr_MSFT

Sorry for the demo fails in this talk - please check out the previous recording for a better set of demos (but if you want to download the slides, you should use the ones from this page)

Please note that the slides available on this page are NOT the ones I presented; please see the slides from the repeat talk to get the actual slides (but sadly several of my demos failed during that talk, so you should watch the video on this page!)

Yanger, WinRT doesn't really support the notion of inheritance for classes. A special case is made for XAML controls in Windows 8, but we don't support C++ XAML on Windows Phone 8.

OK, sounds like we might be able to get a new version with the slides / demos within then next day or so... stay tuned!

For some reason the slides are stuck - they seem to start working at 25 minutes in. I'll see if we can get this fixed but I doubt it. You'll just have to load the slides and manually follow along I'm afraid . Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for doing the summary George! A couple of clarifications; sorry if it wasn't clear:

1) Agents are limited to 25s, but they won't be getting 100% CPU (unless the phone is otherwise idle). We do ensure they don't starve, but it is a low amount of CPU

2) XNA applications can have agents, but those agents can't use XNA libraries. So, for example, an XNA game can use an agent to update its tile... it just can't use 3D, SoundEffects, etc.

3) Audio agents run all the time while they are playing audio; if you pause the audio, they are terminated after ~10 mins.