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When starting to design a Windows 8 app, the most important thing to do is pick out a best-at statement. To create one, answer the question: "This app is the best app in its category at what?"   Take the time to come up with a great best-at statement because many of your…

Technical Fellow Steve Lucco (architect and lead engineer of IE's Chakra JS VM) and Google's V8 and Dart architect Lars Bak discuss JavaScript, from a virtual machine perspective (implementer's view point). IE and Chrome employ different strategies (although they do share some things in…

TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the…

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a casual chat about - what else - TypeScript. Why did they do it? What's the backstory? How is TS related to Dart and does it really aim to solve the same problems? What's wrong with JS, anyway? Does TS extend JS or is it just a design time…

TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic…

In partnership with Joel Martinez, the creator of the Windows Phone Khan Academy app (4/5 stars with 100+ ratings, Top 10 most popular app in Education category), we have finished a step-by-step video-series that shows how to migrate a popular, real-world Windows Phone app to the…

Fresh Paint is an excellent Windows Store App (for Windows 8). It's fun to use, realistic and beautiful ( yes, we really like this app ). In this episode we will meet the developers behind Fresh Paint, Subha Bhattacharyay, Adam Szofran, and  Kaushik Barat. Being native developers,…

Christian Schormann talks about Expression Blend’s support for building Windows Store apps using XAML and HTML.  With HTML being the new offering, Christian dives deep into the HTML and CSS features.  Download the free VS Express for Windows 8 (which now includes Expression Blend) and…

John Montgomery chats about the work his team has been doing so developers can use Visual Studio to build Windows Store apps using HTML and JavaScript. Hear about the challenges behind building apps (and not pages) and the improvements to the language services that make IntelliSense much better in…

Chris Anderson, long-time UI architect at Microsoft (Windows Forms, WPF), discusses the innovative new standards and features introduced in Windows 8, that enable web developers to build Windows 8 apps more easily. Chris has been focused on the Windows Libraries for JavaScript and urges developers…