Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Build

TWC9: 100MM licenses, Blue at build, VS2012.3 Go Live CTP, and more

Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:20:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[00:10] 100 million licenses, 250 million Store app downloads, 400 million active Outlook accounts
[00:56] Build will release a public preview of “Windows Blue”
[01:36] Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available (Brian Harry),http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=290979, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600
[02:46] Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates (Eric Knox), ISO Recorder
[04:12] TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available (Brian Harry)
[05:09] Publish Individual Files to your Server in Visual Studio 2012.2 (Rick Strahl)
[06:18] Announcing TechEd Achievements (D. Begley, Karsten Januszewski)
[07:18] .NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection (Lee Culver)
[08:42] Windows Store app Development snack: Compress your images! (Robert MacLean )
[09:41] Channel 9 Highlight: Inside Code Digger (Nikolai Tillmann, Peli de Halleux)

Picks of the Week!

Dan's Pick of the Week:[11:10] Creative Coding Videos
Brian's Pick of the Week:[12:03] Unit Test Generator under the bonnet (hood) … aka vsarUnitTestFx (Willy-P. Schaub)

Production Note: Yep, no bumpers... Golnaz wasn't available, leaving Brain and Dan on their own, and well... enough said.

Ping 174: Build conference, Xbox music streams, Farewell XP, Microsoft in Utah

Laura Foy — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:44:00 GMT

It's a special treat this week and we actually had Paul IN the studio, just like old times. He was in Seattle anyway- it's not like he came to Seattle just to visit Ping. He likes us, but let's not go overboard.

Build has been built [04:10]

Xbox music streams [11:59]

XP going buh-bye [07:48]

PARTY in Utah! [14:11]

TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 RTW's, BUILD, modern.IE and more

Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:41:30 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[00:28] Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 RTW's!, Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM (Visual Studio ALM), Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (Soma), VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry), Download RTM Release
[02:21] Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (Robert Green,Orville McDonald and Dmitry Lyalin)
[03:41] //BUILD
[05:43] Hackathon@BUILD
[06:51] Windows 8 App for Channel 9 now available (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie)
[08:11] Nice Tool for Presenters who use Visual Studio 2012 (Michael Crump)
[09:00] New on modern.IE: Free VM Downloads, Windows 8 QuickStart Kits, Enhanced Code-Scanning Tools, and More
[10:36] The Making of Lumilight, a game for Windows 8 (Petri Wilhelmsen), Download
[11:21] Channel 9 Highlight: "It looks like you're writing a service!" - "Do you want security with that?" (Clemens Vasters, Barry Dorrans)

Picks of the Week!

Mark's Pick of the Week:[13:35] Bill Gates and Paul Allen Recreate Iconic 1981 Microsoft Photo (Jamie Condliffe)
Dan's Pick of the Week:[14:33] Avanade unveils interactive shopping with NFC, augmented reality and Kinect motion sensing (Karl Dyer)

Production Note: Yep, Dan's audio isn't 100%, sorry about that. You can hear him fine, it's just not as good as Mark's (I wonder if there's a hidden meaning behind that? )

Build 2013 Registration is now open!

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:05:59 GMT

Following up on our announcement of the Build conference, we're excited to announce that Build registration is now open, register now!

For those of you who cannot make the conference, we will be streaming the keynote, select sessions, and live Q&A sessions on Channel 9.

Update: Build 2013 is officially sold out! You can still watch keynotes, select sessions, & live Q&A online on Channel 9

TWC9: Build 2013, Brew, Backbone, Git, YUI and more

Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:40:39 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[00:31] Build 2013
[01:04] #785 – Using the Visual Profiler Tool, #783 – Downloading and Installing the WPF Performance Suite (Sean Sexton), WPF Performance Suite
[01:45] Brew 1.0 has arrived! [Found Via: The Morning Brew #1321]
[02:23] Backbone 1.0 (Jeremy Ashkenas) [Found Via: The Morning Brew #1321]
[02:50] Git Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Luca Milanesio)
[04:03] Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3 (Roberto Sonnino)
[04:51] GDC 2013 Windows Developer Content Direct3D Game Templates
[05:29] New middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy (Todd Brix)
[06:06] Windows Phone Apps - Watch Your Code for Hidden Activity (Den Delimarsky)
Channel 9 Highlight:[07:08] Build Windows 8 Apps with YUI (Jeff Burtoft)

Picks of the Week!

Brian's Pick of the Week:[07:40] Arena.Xlsm, an RPG built using Excel, carywalkin.wordpress.com, Version 1.1, Arena.Xlsm wiki
Clint's Pick of the Week:[08:11] Dynamic Lockscreen Changer for Windows Phone 8, Built With ASP.NET MVC and Azure Mobile Services (Clint Rutkas, Den Delimarsky)

Announcing Build 2013

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:53:58 GMT

Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Save the date and mark your calendar for the opening of registration at 9:00 AM PDT on Tuesday April 2, 2013 at http://buildwindows.com.

At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. Join us for 3 days of immersive presentations delivered by the engineers behind our products and services, while networking with thousands of other developers getting the first look at what's next. We look forward to seeing you at Moscone.

Imagine Cup TV Episode 002: WOWZAPP, The Tech Awards, and the Big Board!

Golnaz, John Scott Tynes — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:58:11 GMT

John and Golnaz are back for more and they've been on the road to Helsinki and to Silicon Valley. Check out the latest and greatest from Imagine Cup and watch out for popping toast!

edit on WOWZAPP information: there were actually 3000 apps created and the event took place in 120 locations around the world!

GoingNative 12: C++ at Build 2012, Inside Profile Guided Optimization

Charles — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:40:26 GMT

Profile Guided Optimization, or PGO, is an approach to optimization where the compiler uses profile information to make better optimization decisions for the program. Profiling is the process of gathering information of how the program is used during runtime. In a nutshell, PGO is optimizations based on user scenarios whereas static optimizations rely on the source file structure. VC++ has supported this approach to measurement-based code optimization since VC2005. In this episode of GoingNative, we are going to dig into VC++'s implementation of PGO with some of the folks who make it: Program Manager Amit Mohindra and Development Lead Ten Tzen. Tune in.

Table of contents

[00:00] GoingNative();\\ Charles and Ale discuss C++ at Build 2012 and introduce Profile Guided Optimization.

[04:09] Charles interviews VC++ back end compiler team members Ten Tzen (lead developer) and Amit Mohindra (PM) about VC++'s implementation of PGO. Whiteboarding included. This is a long interview, so make some time.

[01:04:15] ~GoingNative(); // Charles and Ale reflect on PGO, Charles answers Herb Sutter's question (that Herb asked Charles during his Build 2012 C++ session (in his intro remarks). Hi Herb!

We really want to hear from you, so please tweet feedback to @C9GoingNative (follow us!) and send your requests, ideas, complaints, praises, hate mail, and love letters to C9GoingNative at hotmail com. We will read and respond to all messages! That's how we roll, brothers and sisters. If you are a Facebook user, then please join our C9::GoingNative Facebook group.

Go native!

Windows Azure Best of Build 2012

Michael Washam — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:08:24 GMT

Windows Azure in the Day Two Keynote

If you have not had a chance to watch anything from Build yet I would highly recommend starting with theday two keynote with Satya Nadella. These are some of the riskiest (and best) demos I've seen at a Microsoft conference to date. Beyond the risk and showmanship they really demonstrated how developers can use Windows Azure to make great applications. There were five major demos for Windows Azure that highlighted many of the ways developers can build connected applications and highly scalable back ends to create impressive applications.

Mobile Services Demo

In the first demo Josh Twist from the Windows Azure Mobile Services team shows that in just a few lines of code he can take an already useful Windows 8 application and extend it to store data in the cloud, authenticate via Twitter, and send notifications using Windows Notification Services. Best of all he showed that Mobile Services now supports Windows Phone 8 by demonstrating the same app running on the phone.

ASP.NET and Windows Azure Websites Demo

After Josh, Scott Hanselman demonstrates building and deploying an ASP.NET 4.5 site with Windows Azure Websites that allows for video upload to Windows Azure storage. Some of the new capabilities in ASP.NET 4.5 are highlighted such as Facebook authentication, Web API, Async and OData. Scott also demonstrated some of the fantastic new tooling in Visual Studio 2012 such as page inspector and the new Windows Azure storage functionality.

Windows Azure Media Services, Cloud Services and SignalR

Scott Guthrie starts with the application Scott Hanselman had just deployed. He extends it even further to use Windows Azure Media Services to automatically encode the videos on upload. Using a few lines of code Scott demonstrates how you can utilize the Media Services API to store, encode and publish video. This demo was really exciting because Scott demonstrated the technology live by recording the audience and uploading to the service where Media Services encoded it and made it available to stream. Scott also shows how you can use cloud services and SignalR to make a much more dynamic experience on the client that scales out to thousands of users.

Team Foundation Service

Jason Zander shows how using the newly released Team Foundation Service to create and manage a product back log, track issues and also announced that TFS is now free for up to five developers. Jason showed how it is easy to setup continuous integration with Windows Azure Websites.

Big Data Analysis

Dave Campbell shows how to dig deep and analyze data created by your application by analyzing trace logs captured from the application demonstrated in the previous demonstrations using tools such as Excel, Hive and HD Insight. He shows how you can quickly create a hive table using LINQPad and then query and chart that data using Hive integrated tooling in Excel and PowerView. He puts all of the pieces of the puzzle together by creating a video recommendation engine based on the data collected.

"Ask the Gu"

After the keynote Scott Hanselman interviewed Scott Guthrie and took questions on Windows Azure. This is a great session to watch because Scott gives an outline of everything that was announced leading up to and at Build.

Windows Azure @Build Technical Sessions

Beyond the keynote was a ton of deep technical sessions focused on Windows Azure.

There were a total of 24 sessions focused on Windows Azure that were mostly delivered by the very people that design and build the product.

The Top 5 Windows Azure specific sessions in popularity:

Windows Azure Overview by Scott Guthrie

Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part I by Josh Twist

Introduction to Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service by Mark Russinovich

Windows Azure Internals by Mark Russinovich

Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part II by Nick Harris and Chris Risner

P.S. The source code for the keynote demos should be available within the next week.

Keep an eye on https://github.com/organizations/WindowsAzure-Samples for updates.

//build Debrief with James Chambers, Colin Melia, and Bruce Johnson

Jonathan Rozenblit, Bruce Johnson, CanadianJames, Colin Melia — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:47:36 GMT

Canadian MVPs James Chambers, Colin Melia, and Bruce Johnson recap key moments from //build. Hear about what they saw and heard during the week they spent in Redmond, what's new and exciting for developers, interesting sessions to watch on-demand, and more.

Join the Conversation
Where you at //build? Do you have a story to share? Do you have questions for James, Colin, and/or Bruce? Start a new conversation in the Canadian Developer Connection group on LinkedIn. James, Colin, and Bruce, as well as fellow Canadian developers are there networking, sharing, and learning. While visiting the group, make sure to join the group and stay connected.

This segment was presented and recording LIVE on Wednesday, November 5, 2012.

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Build is wrapped- let's party!

Laura Foy — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:11:50 GMT

Throwing an event the size and quality of Build is no small feat. And attending such an event is an overwhelming experience filled with education and stimulation. So, when it's all said and done we throw a well deserved party for all those who participated. This year, it was at the Seattle Center Armory and I stopped by to see what we did right, what we did wrong and what people thought overall of Build 2012.

Defrag Tools: Live - //build/ 2012

Larry Larsen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:50:16 GMT

Mark Russinovich joins Larry Larsen and Andrew Richards for a live version of Defrag Tools where they take questions about troubleshooting Windows 8, the changes to the Sysinternals Tools, Driver support, VHD support, Security, and much more.

EdgeShow 42 Build summary for IT Pros

David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow, Symon Perriman — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:20:59 GMT

In this special Edge show episode, the team gives coverage of Build as it relates to IT professionals and recent announcements. More specifically, we cover:

Windows 8 GA launch
[00:58] Build Pre-conference stats
[01:54] Day 1 keynote - Ballmer's demos Rick's Ballmer moments
Hardware
- [03:27] Acer UX31A
- ASUS Zenbook Touch
- [05:08] Lenovo Yoga
- [06:13] Surface RT + Touch and Type Covers
- [08:15] Dell XPS all-in-one
[10:23] Day 2 keynote - Azure stuff relevant for IT Pros
[12:43] Windows Phone 8 - Nokia 920 and Kid mode
[14:55] Relevant BUILD sessions for IT Pros

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Build 2012 Hackathon Kickoff

Clint Rutkas, Laura Foy — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:04:54 GMT

The Build hackathon is underway and loads of developers are hard at work creating apps for Windows 8, Windows Azure and Windows Phone 8. I stopped by just as they kicked off and caught some of the pre-event excitement. Take a look!

Developers you love, and why they love developing

Laura Foy — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:30:00 GMT

To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward. We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included:

Anders Hejlsberg: Technical Fellow, Developer Divisions, Microsoft
Anil Dash: CEO & Co-founder, ThinkUp
Ben Huh: CEO and Founder, The Cheezburger Network
Bill Gates: Co-founder, Microsoft
Jeff Atwood: Co-founder, Stack Exchange
Larry Osterman: Principal Software Design Engineer Windows Runtime Experience Team, Microsoft
LaSean Smith: Sr. Engagement Manager, Deloitte Digital
Matt Mullenweg: Co-founder, WordPress
Michah Baldwin: CEO, Graphicaly
Nancy Phan: Director of Mobile Product Management, StumbleUpon
Nolan Bushnell: Founder, Atari, Inc.
Tim O'Reilly: CEO and Founder, O'Reilly Media
Tod Semple: Developer, Plants vs. Zombies
Tracey Trewin: Partner Director, Developer Division, Microsoft
Sebastian Thrun: CEO, Udacity

Time lapse photography of the Build 2012 Keynote Structure

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:00:00 GMT

For Build 2012 we wanted to put on an amazing show while our attendees visited us on the Microsoft Redmond Campus. We know what you were thinking when we first announced the event, "Where will the keynotes be?" To make sure we had a great place for the show we constructed a structure for keynotes and more.

One acre in size
Large enough to fit 12 NBA basketball courts or 4 NHL ice surfaces
Climate controlled

Enjoy this time lapse video of the construction.

//build/ 2012 Windows Phone App

Greg Duncan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:10 GMT

A quick note (since my http://buildwindows.com earlier today was admittedly a little sparse), I just saw project the by David Burela cross my news stream and thought you might find it appropriate.

The source is available, though it does use a third party control set (the Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone controls). You all know that I usually don't highlight projects that include components that are free, that include commercial libraries, but I thought I'd make a special exception for this one...

Build 2012 conference app for Windows Phone

This year I was given the location of the Build 2012 data feed, and asked if I could help build the conference app for the Windows Phone.
You can download the Build 2012 conference application from the Windows Phone marketplace.
The source code is available on GitHub.
I took the TechEd Australia app that I created earlier in the year, and modified it for the Build data stream (you can read my post-mortem of building the TechEd app here)
The Build 2012 application has a few nice features:
Search for sessions by title, session code or abstract.
View the sessions by schedule slot.
View slides directly on your phone (once uploaded to Channel 9).
Watch the sessions directly on your phone (once uploaded to Channel 9).
And of course, the application was built using the Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone controls.

BTW, you can try the Infragistics controls for free, so you can grab them, this source and check it out to you hearts content (or until the trial expires at least). And hey, worse case, the app is free in the Windows Phone Marketplace...

BUILD!

Greg Duncan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT

It's BUILD 2012 week and if you were not able to grab a ticket you can still attend, virtually at least...

We will be streaming live for all four days of the conference: keynotes, featured sessions, even live interactive interviews where we’ll take questions from you at home. Not to mention, all Build content will be recorded and available online on Channel 9 within 24 hours. Just check back here when the event is going on.

Who knows, maybe you'll even see me in one of these live broadcasts...

Update: The Channel 9 //build/ Event information is now live, along with a list of most/all the sessions, etc. While much will be streamed live, most the videos should be available 24'ish hours after the given session.

Ping 150: BUILD, Office 13, Windows Phone dev portal, NFL & Microsoft

Laura Foy — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:32:56 GMT

Check out this week's hottest news brought to you by Laura and Paul

BUILD sells out fast! [03:08]

Office 13 embraces web development [09:00]

New portal open for Windows Phone developers [13:44]

Football and Microsoft! [16:38]

TWC9: Build sold out, Portable Class Library, eBooks galore, SQLite, WinRT and more

Brian Peek, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:20:03 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including:

[0:51] http://www.buildwindows.com/, Build 2012 is sold out. Tune in online., http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/2012
[1:50] What is Portable Class Library project in Visual Studio 2012– .NET 4.5 (Kishore Babu Gaddam)
[3:04] Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (Clint Rutkas, Bob Tabor, Golnaz )
[3:54] Building your own Windows Runtime components to deliver great Metro style apps (Ines Khelifi)
[6:22] UPDATED HOWTO: SQLite with Windows 8 apps (Tim Heuer)
[7:34] Maximizing Code Reuse Across Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apps (Alnur Ismail)
[8:37] Callisto (Tim Heuer) [Found via: CALLISTO Library]
[9:39] Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more. , Another large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks and Resource Kits for you, including: SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Office 365, Duet 2.0, Azure, Cloud, Windows Phone, Lync, Dynamics CRM, and more. (Eric Ligman), Microsoft Technologies E-Book Gallery (TechNet Wiki)
[10:32] Channel 9 Highlight: Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Larry Larsen)

Picks of the Week!

Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:21] KinÊtre - Animating the World with the Human Body (Steve Clayton)
Dan's Pick of the Week: [12:58] Build Easter Egg http://www.buildwindows.com

August News - Windows 8, BUILD 2012, Metro, Visual Studio 2012, and Conferences

Jonathan Rozenblit — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:17:26 GMT

Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news:

Announced today: Windows 8 officially RTM'd
Save the date: Windows 8 General Availability - October 26, 2012
Windows 8 Upgrade offer
Announcing //build 2012 - Registration opens 8.8.2012 at 8AM PDT (stay tuned to buildwindows.com)
Build Windows 8 apps at Windows 8 Hackathons - Register today
Windows 8 Development Resources: What's a Metro Style App?, Making Great Metro Style Apps, Building Metro Style Apps: What Web Developers Need to Know
Get your app reviewed by a Microsoft Field Engineer
Announced today: Visual Studio 2012 RTM'd
Visual Studio Virtual Launch Event - September 12, 2012
Office 2013 - A new Office has arrived - Download the Preview
OneNote MX in the Windows Store
New show for web developers: Foxie
Register for conferences to attend: Prairie Dev Con (October 1-3), SDEC 12 (October 15-17), and DevTeach (December 10-12)

Watch the full episode >>

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TWC9: Build 2012, Metro LOB apps, aspConf, .Net 4.5 GC, Ardunio Shields and more

Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:29:43 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

[0:54] Announcing BUILD 2012 (Tim O'Brien)
[1:58] Creating beautiful views for local files (Marc Wautier)
[3:50] MetroGridHelper for WinRT, a helper to get the alignment right (Mark Monster)
[4:28] Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings (Andrej Tozon)
[6:06] Channel 9 Highlight: Designing Metro Style Line of Business Apps (Robert Green)
[7:10] The .NET Framework 4.5 includes new garbage collector enhancements for client and server apps (Brandon Bray)
[9:31] aspConf http://live.aspconf.net/ & <http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/aspConf/aspConf>, aspConf 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter accounts: An OPML file for bulk blog feed subscription and a Twitter list for easy Following (Jon Gallant)
[10:22] Facebook Apps and Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 1 – Getting Started) [Nathan Totten]
[11:38] Channel 9 Highlight: What Is an Arduino Shield and Why Should My Netduino Care? (Fabien Royer)

Picks of the Week!

Brian's Pick of the Week:[13:19] New Programming Jargon (Jeff Atwood)
Dan's Pick of the Week:[15:37] Codealike VS2010 Extension

Announcing BUILD 2012

Tim O'Brien — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT

In January we shared some thoughts on our approach to developer events, including a commitment to come back with more on our plans for an event this coming fall. Well, here it is: our next developer conference will be this fall, and it's (again) called BUILD. It will be held on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, from October 30^th until November 2^nd. Yes, that's right ... it's the week after Windows 8 becomes generally available worldwide. And in addition to Windows 8, we will have lots of other stuff to talk about, too: Windows Azure, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012, Visual Studio 2012, and much more.

BUILD 2012 will be on the Microsoft campus, and I know what you're thinking ... if it's not in some cavernous convention hall, then it must be a dialed-down version of last year's event, etc. ... but don't be confused: this will be unlike anything we've held on our corporate campus in a long time. More details to come . And, as we talked about in the January post, if you've gone to a Microsoft developer event, you know that most of the speakers and participants are from our engineering teams, so a campus event puts you in the thick of things along with the engineers directly responsible for our products and the platform opportunities they represent. This one's not to be missed.

So what happens next? Well, at 8AM Pacific time on 8.8 (see what we just did there?), we will open registration for BUILD 2012 at www.buildwindows.com. At that point, we'll start sharing details over time about keynoters, sessions, content, and more, but for the time being, set a reminder for August 8^th.

That's it for now. Because my thesaurus was unable to suggest a decent synonym for "super excited", let's just say we're stoked about BUILD 2012, and we hope to see you there.

GoingNative Live at BUILD: Ale Contenti, Boris Jabes and Tony Goodhew

Charles — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:38:13 GMT

GoingNative live at BUILD! This is part 1with Ale Contenti, Boris Jabes and Tony Goodhew. Topics include C++ for Metro style apps, Visual Studio 11 DirectX development enhancements and more.

Windows Server 8 Partners Speak

Son VoBa (SVoBa) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:46:55 GMT

Leading up to and at the BUILD Conference, Microsoft partners discuss their early engineering collaboration in completing different Windows Server 8 customer scenarios through technology developments and feature extensions. This video is a quick peek into the series of video snacks and BUILD Expo Word-on-the-Street that includes: Broadcom, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, DynamicOps, Emulex, Gemalto, HP, IBM, Inmon, Intel, NEC, NetApp, QLogic, Titus, and Websense.