Building Metro style apps that print
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Description
Games are undoubtedly one of the most popular style of apps with users today and one of the largest money makers as well! If you have ever thought of writing a game, this session is for you! Windows 8 offers an end-to-end platform for developing games. Come to this session to learn how Windows 8 enables you to build engaging, profitable, connected games that can play on a myriad of form factors.
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The Discussion
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dee Can we use XNA to build (metro) games on Win8??
I use XNA to build games for WP7 and Win7 and i could extend that to XBox. What about Win8 (Metro apps)?
Any plans there that you can share?
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FrankieC Chas did a great job in this session covering the APIs that are available that will help to develop DirextX based Metro Style Games. He covers APIs such as DirectWrite, Direct2D/3D, XAudio2, Media Foundation and best practices for specific phases of the appication life-cycle. Not a lot of code samples but I still found this to be a good presentation that helped me to become familiar with the fundamentals of this new release. There is a Game Dev Cheat Sheet at the end of the presentation that contains a listing of //build/ sessions for game dev if you are interested as well. Thanks Chas for this presentation!
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