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Imagine Cup TV Episode 010: BBC's Matt Smith hosts Imagine Cup, Facebook Creativity Award, Avenade Dinner, and more!

Golnaz, John Scott Tynes — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Golnaz visited the United States Imagine Cup Local Finals, Matt Smith is hosting our awards ceremony at Worldwide Finals this July, Facebook is giving an award, Avenade is sponsoring a special Women in Technology dinner this summer, and John found a very special photograph!

Imagine Cup TV Episode 009: Moscow Local Finals; Robot Baby; Social Media Team; and the KFC Russia Award

Golnaz, John Scott Tynes — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT

John has been eating bad airplane food and checking out amazing robots at the Imagine Cup Russia Local Final. The Microsoft Student Partners Social Media Team has been blogging like crazy to cover all the Imagine Cup Local Finals action worldwide. John & Golnaz will be reporting for ICTV from the Worldwide Finals in St. Petersburg including a live stream you can check out. And from KFC Russia . . . INTERACTIVE FLOOR!

Imagine Cup TV Episode 008: You Snooze, You Lose; Kodu Challenge; Mail.Ru Group Award; and Mr. Octo!

Golnaz, John Scott Tynes — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT

April 15 is the big deadline to submit projects to Imagine Cup. Are you ready? John and Golnaz realize they can finally program thanks to Kodu Game Lab and the new Imagine Cup Kodu Challenge. There's a new award that Worldwide Finalists can compete for thanks to Russia's Mail.Ru Group. And John is leaving for Moscow but he forgot to invite Golnaz! RUH ROH . . .

Channel 9 turns 9!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:00:00 GMT

From our humble beginnings as a website built with alpha quality forum technologies that we stitched together with creative code and a lot of love, and our videos were made by a few dudes roaming the halls of Microsoft with a cheap camcorder – look at us now. Channel 9 streams live events to 100,000s of people around the world, we have a state of the art recording studio, we do C9 Live at events around the world bringing you directly into the conversation with Microsoft folks in real time. Today, much of our content is created from folks around the company. Channel 9 is THE place to watch MS events on demand and to learn about our technologies from the people who make them – people are the lifeblood of software and technology. Channel 9 is people!

Today marks 9 years of 9. It's a very special day. We are especially humbled and honored to still be around given the change rate of the web. We thank all past, present and future Niners for the excellent conversations, arguments, debates, entertainment, and camaraderie. 9 Years of 9. That rolls so nicely off the tongue. Here's to 9 more.

Imagine Cup TV Episode 007: AppCampus Award, Awesome Andrew Parsons, and the Final Big Board!

Golnaz, John Scott Tynes — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:00:00 GMT

John's been petting a sloth, Golnaz got her taxes done, and it's deadline day for Imagine Cup team registrations! Plus they've got a sweet new award for Windows Phone teams to learn about, a new video from Games Competition Captain Andrew Parsons, and the last appearance of the Big Board! (Maybe someone can tell John that 50,000 Euros does not equal twelve U.S. dollars? Because that's just embarrassing.)

Part 31: Where to Go From Here

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:57 GMT

Bob reviews the topics discussed throughout the series and provides some additional resources and guidance regarding how you should approach your career as a software developer.

Windows 8 UX Fundamentals Training Workshop 2012

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Camp/Windows-8-UX-Fundamentals-Training-Workshop-2012?direction=asc

Windows Azure Mobile Services

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

Bob's Website, LearnVisualStudio.NET

http://www.learnvisualstudio.net

Part 30: Simulating Product Purchases

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:46 GMT

Finally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items making it possible for us to use a "free-mium" business model.

Part 29: Simulating App Purchases

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:28 GMT

Continuing on from the previous lesson, we learn how to unlock the app and its features by allowing the user to purchase a full version of the app directly from the app.

Part 28: Detecting Trial Versions

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:19 GMT

In this final Hands On Lab, we use the CurrentAppSimulator class to simulate interaction with the Windows Store API. Here, we simply use the configuration file to declaratively modify the user interface. This simulates the data retrieved from the Windows Store.

Part 27: Incorporating Scheduled Toasts

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:10 GMT

This lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of a task or change in the app.

Part 26: Incorporating Push Notifications

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:30:00 GMT

Continuing from Part 25, this lesson demonstrates how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates from the cloud to the user on the Windows 8 start page.

Windows Azure Mobile Services

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started/

Part 25: Incorporating Secondary Tiles

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:29:52 GMT

The Windows 8 start page is a distinctive feature and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" in the app.

Part 24: Implementing the Preference

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:29:41 GMT

In this lesson, we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desired functionality.

Part 23: Adding a Preferences Page

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:29:31 GMT

In this lesson, we use the ToggleSwitch WinJS control to capture a user's preference for how to deal with remembering the state of the app prior to it being terminated. We talk about the different special folders and objects we can use to save user data, and discuss roaming and how to utilize it in our app.

Part 22: Adding an About Page

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:29:20 GMT

In this lesson, we learn how to add Settings pages to our project. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences, or other related purposes.

Part 21: Lifetime Management: Saving and Restoring State

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:29:09 GMT

In this lesson, Bob explains how Windows 8 manages the resources of the computer in regards to our apps. We learn how to respond to Suspend notifications from Windows 8 so that we can store state or data information and restore it when the app is re-launched.

ApplicationExecutionState enumeration

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.appmodel.activation.appexecutionstate

App activate and suspend using WinJS sample

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/App-activation-events-and-d39c53d5

Part 20: Adding Video Capture

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:28:55 GMT

In this lesson, we demonstrate how easy it is to record a video and share it directly from our app.

Part 19: Adding Photo Capture

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:28:43 GMT

In this lesson, we demonstrate how easy it is to take a photo and share it directly from our app.

Part 18: Adding an App Bar

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:28:32 GMT

In this lesson, we add an AppBar and AppBar buttons to allow the user to select additional options on the Recipe Item Detail page.

Part 17: Allowing Recipes to Be Searched

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:27:57 GMT

In this lesson, we learn how to respond to the user's request to search using the Search charm in Windows 8. We see all of the changes to our app that are automated by including a search results page template. We also demonstrate how to enable apps to provide spelling suggestions to items as the user types in the search phrase.

Part 16: Allowing Recipes to Be Shared

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:27:43 GMT

Windows 8 charms can be tightly integrated into our app. Here, we implement the Share Contract, allowing users to select a recipe and share the recipe text and images with other apps such as email.

Part 15: Enabling Semantic Zoom

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:27:30 GMT

In this lesson, we allow users to use the reverse-pinching motion to see a high-level overview of the different groups of recipes we offer—a process referred to as "Semantic Zooming." This allows the user to get context and drill into the items that interest them on our start page.

Part 14: Enabling Snapped Mode

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:27:20 GMT

The Grid App Template provides a basic CSS3 Media Queries framework for handling snapped mode. In this lesson, we enhance the default layout of our Group Detail and Item Detail pages to accommodate snapped mode.

Part 13: Accommodating Orientation by Creating Portrait and Landscape Views

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:26:33 GMT

In this lesson, we learn about the Simulator in Visual Studio to help us simulate the process of changing the device's orientation as well as discussing how CSS Media Queries and JavaScript event handlers control the switch between the orientations and accompanying layouts and make changes to the Groups and Item Detail pages to accommodate the Portrait view.

Part 12: Customizing the UI (3 of 3) - Modifying the Item-Detail Page

BobTabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:26:22 GMT

In this lesson, we examine the itemDetail.html page, remove invalid bindings to the sample data, and bind to the ingredients list and the directions data.