Metro

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've started seeing it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

Thanks to all of you who attended on premise and in the cloud. All sessions are available for on demand viewing.Whether you are a new C++ developer ready to learn about writing Metro style apps, an intermediate developer who wants to hone your code and skills, or an experienced…

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:[0:41] Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey, karstenj, Mike Sampson) [1:26] .NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications (Soma Somasegar) [2:27] My Favorite Features: Improved…

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one.With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port a Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows 8…

Live Q&A with Bruce Johnson and Atley Hunter.WIN280 - Metro in Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Part 1)The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++.  These Windows-specific talks will use both portable ISO C++ and Visual C++-specific compiler…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:[1:01] A New Look for CodePlex (Mark Groves) [1:58] Project Mayhem - an overview, Making Mayhem with Volume Control, Project Mayhem - Creating a module (Clint Rutkas, Eli White) [3:09] Fast and…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on April 24, 2012.Abstract You have looked into building Windows 8 Metro Style Applications. But now comes the step of building a great app that integrates with Windows 8 experiences and that has great user…