Application Development

In this weeks episode, Martin Beeby is joined by Steve Plank, Cloud Evangelist at Microsoft to talk about storing app data in the cloud. The tech session is provided by Mike Taulty who asks the question: which is faster, boiling an egg or setting up an Azure Mobile Service. To join in the…

Need to migrate your Windows Store app to Windows 8.1?  Learn how Visual Studio 2013 makes it easy to retarget your projects and update your code. For more info, see Retarget your Windows Store app to Windows 8.1.

What's new for developers in Windows 8.1? Antoine Leblond, Vice President of Program Management on the Windows team, shares the new features he's excited about in this release. The Windows user experience continues to evolve, and it's getting easier to develop, test, and submit apps to the…

What's new for developers in Windows 8.1? Joe Stegman, Group Program Manager for the UI platform, shares the new features he's excited about in this release. The Windows user experience continues to evolve, and it's getting easier to develop, test, and submit apps to the Windows Store.…

What's new for developers in Windows 8.1? Ales Holecek, Vice President of Development for the Windows platform, shares the new features he's excited about in this release. The Windows user experience continues to evolve, and it's getting easier to develop, test, and submit apps to the Windows Store.…

Windows 8.1 introduces a new windowing model. Depending on screen resolution, users can run up to four apps at the same time, per screen. Learn how to design your app to work with the new window size model. For more info, see Resizable windows.

Feed reader is a sample Windows Store app that demonstrates a basic end-to-end implementation of a news feed reader. It uses a hub navigation pattern to organize and display articles from various subscriptions specified in a JSON-formatted data file. The data is obtained over a network…

Windows Azure has evolved over the years, and now with the Infrastructure Services (VMs) offered, it makes a lot of sense to leverage Azure for creating development environments and running testing scenarios. In this session, we’ll look at all of the pieces that contributed to using Windows Azure…

If you need to test location-aware web apps on a desktop or laptop, IE11's new Emulation tool makes it easy to simulate GPS and feed your app the coordinates you need to test. For more information, read the Emulation tool documentation.

F12 Developer Tools in IE11 adds IntelliSense auto-completion suggestions to the Console and DOM Explorer tools for increased speed and discoverability. Watch the video, then bring up the F12 Developer Tools in IE11 and give it a try.