Building Beautiful Applications Using Blend and Visual Studio for XAML Applications

In this session, we show some of the new features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 for building XAML applications. We take a look at the toolset that helps you build awesome XAML applications across Windows Store, Windows Phone and WPF. We explore the concept of shared projects, support for Windows Runtime (WinRT) types and XAML in portable class libraries, and the end-to-end developer experience for building a converged app. We also highlight the key enhancements we have made to the code, XAML authoring, Debugging and Diagnostics experiences in Visual Studio and Blend for XAML development.