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Tuesday 13th September 2011
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Keynote: Reimagining Windows
by Steve Sinofsky, Julie-Larson Green and Mike Angiulo
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8 traits of great Metro style apps
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Platform for Metro style apps
by Aleš Holeček and John Sheehan
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Tools for building Metro style apps
by Chris Sells and Kieran Mockford
Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Keynote #2
by Scott Guthrie and Satya Nadella
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Building great Windows 8 systems
by Dennis Flanagan
Windows 8 introduces several new features that enable PC makers to build compelling systems that are fast, fun, secure, power efficient and connect to devices customers care about. This session will provide an overview of the Windows 8 touch, graphics, power, bus, sensor, networking and hardware-based security investments and provide pointers to sessions that go into depth on each area.
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Designing Metro style: principles and personality
by Samuel Moreau
Windows 8 marks the next step in the evolution of the Metro design style. Through the bold use of color, typography and motion, Metro design style brings a fresh new approach to user experience. In this talk, Director of User Experience Design and Research, Sam Moreau will share the design principles behind Metro and provide insights for how to apply these principles in apps that you build.
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Fundamentals of Metro style apps: how and when your app will run
by Ben Srour
As your customers move your app between the foreground and background, Windows manages your app’s usage of critical system resources. Come learn the fundamentals of Process Lifetime Management and how to structure your app to suspend and resume quickly, save app state properly, and behave consistently. We will also highlight ways to keep your app fresh using push notifications and tile interactivity. Understanding these critical concepts will help you deliver a continuous experience that customers expect.
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Introduction to DirectX for Metro style apps
by Kam VedBrat
Learn how you can harness the power of DirectX for your app! As the foundation for all graphics on Windows 8, DirectX enables you to create the most compelling apps for connecting to people, visualizing information, storytelling, entertainment and creativity. Attend this session for a comprehensive overview of the graphics platform DirectX provides for Windows 8 apps.
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Metro style apps using XAML: what you need to know
by Joe Stegman
If you are experienced with .NET or C++ and are already familiar with XAML, come learn everything you need to know to create a Metro style app for Windows 8. This session will cover updates to familiar features including basic controls, styling, and data-binding, and explore concepts that are new for Windows 8. Discover how you can build an amazing experience that is driven by touch, uses new Windows controls, and integrates well with Windows 8. This foundational session will show you how to turn your XAML skills into money making Metro style apps.
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What's new in Visual Studio 11
by Jason Zander
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 enable developers to take full advantage of the capability of Windows using the skills and technologies developers already know and love to deliver exceptional and compelling apps. Whether working individually or in a small, medium or large development team the Visual Studio 11 sets a new standard for development tools, helping teams deliver superior results for their customers that help set them apart from their competitors. In this session we’ll walk through the new features in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview to give you an understanding of the breadth of tooling available in this release.
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Windows Server 8
by Bill Laing, Jeff Woolsey, Manlio Vecchiet, Max Herrmann and Mike Neil
This session will introduce the next release of Windows Server, code-named Windows Server “8”. We will talk about the engineering investments we have done in this release along with their benefits. We will also point out opportunities for developers and hardware partners to expand on the new capabilities in the product. This session will include lots of demos illustrating how Windows Server 8 lets our customers and partners move beyond virtualization and embrace a truly cloud optimized OS.
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A lap around Visual Studio 11 Express for Metro style apps using C++
by Joanna Mason and Vikas Bhatia
Windows 8 comes with a brand new Metro style app experience where native developers and designers can work in parallel. Ones in behavioral aspects and the others in UI. This talk offers an end-to-end view of the developer experience for this kind of app, from the solution creation to the marketplace publication.
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Building great touch systems
by Jerry Koh, Steve Welch and Takahiro Shigemitsu
Windows 8 introduces a number of new touch experiences and capabilities. This session will provide an overview of how to build and test great touch systems running Windows 8. You will learn about the Windows 8 user experience and certification requirements, new tools for validating and measuring the touch user experience on different hardware platform, as well as considerations for overall system integration.
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Delivering a secure and fast boot experience with UEFI
by Arie van der Hoeven
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode and Secure Boot are critically important to creating a more secure platform. This session will discuss the benefits of UEFI, including key features of Windows 8 that depend on UEFI, such as BitLocker and Seamless Boot. This session also will cover technical details of UEFI and updates to ACPI requirements.
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Delivering great performance and battery life
by Jason Hendrickson and Sharif Farag
Windows 8 runs efficiently on a broader range of systems. This session will cover how to create high-performance and energy efficient experiences on the full spectrum of Windows 8 platforms. You will learn software design and development practices that maximize the performance of apps and power consumption as a whole. We will also discuss how the Windows team approaches development to scale across systems and how you can apply the same techniques to your software and drivers.
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Designing Metro style apps that are touch-optimized
by Kay Hofmeester and Jan-Kristian Markiewicz
Get the knowledge and guidance needed to build an app for an intuitive, powerful touch experience. Understand how touch design principles are firmly grounded in customer needs of comfort and utility. Discover how your app can use Windows 8 touch language and patterns, capabilities like smart targeting and semantic zoom, and new interactions like “slide to select” and “hold to learn” to engage your customers.
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Introducing the Windows Store
by Ted Dworkin
If you’ve got an idea for the next breakthrough app, come to this session to learn how to take that next app and create a business that runs at the scale of Windows. Get a sneak peak at the submission process and learn how the Windows Store has been designed for easy discoverability of your app. See the many ways you can monetize your app across a global audience and learn how Windows Store analytics and feedback help you understand and adapt your app’s user experience.
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Introduction to Windows Azure: the cloud operating system
Come join Mark Russinovich for an overview of Microsoft’s new cloud OS. Assuming no prior knowledge of Windows Azure, this session will start by explaining the Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) app philosophy and how it differs from that of traditional server apps. Then, demonstrating key concepts with a real Windows Azure service built and deployed to the cloud, we’ll describe the Windows Azure service model, including concepts like update and fault domains. The session will then conclude by discussing the different service update options and detail the recovery steps Windows Azure follows when it detects that a service or a hardware device has failed.
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Lap around the Windows Runtime
by Martyn Lovell
The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a key piece of technology used by all Metro style apps in Windows. What actually is the Windows Runtime though? This session explores this key question by digging into the concepts of language projections, the WinRT type system and advanced API patterns included in the Windows Runtime. Learn how Windows uses interface patterns combined with language projection to present modern concepts in a natural and familiar way to each programming language.
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Metro style apps using HTML5 from start to finish
by Harris Syed and Scott Dickens
Get started writing Metro style apps using your HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS skills today! Come dive into the specifics of this exciting platform and see how you can use your Web skills to build deeply-integrated Windows apps. You’ll discover how this mirrors or differs from traditional Web programming and how to harness the rich capabilities of Windows 8 through JavaScript and the Windows Runtime. You’ll also learn proper navigation techniques, how to manage your app’s state, and how to incorporate the Windows look and feel into your app. This foundational session will arm you with everything you need to know to build Metro style apps with the skills you already have.
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Metro style apps using XAML: Make your app shine
by Marco Matos
You’ve built your first basic Metro style app in XAML and now you’re ready to dive into the specifics of deeply integrating it with Windows. Come discover how you can deliver a first-class experience using new Windows 8 concepts. You’ll learn about the new activation model, how to incorporate navigation and charms into your app, as well as supporting the new lifetime model for Windows Metro style apps. We’ll build a completely integrated app and teach you how to take your Metro style app to the next level!
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Reach your customers’ devices with one beautiful HTML5 user interface
by David Washington and Markus Mielke
Get your app on all the devices your customers use by building a great user experience that adapts to different screen sizes, aspect ratios and pixel densities using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Through this session, learn how your app can take advantage of new multi-tasking views and orientations and see how easy it is to build apps that look great on different screen sizes and on high-pixel density screens.
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Reimagining the experience for connecting with devices
by Craig Zhou and Robin Goldstein
Windows 8 makes it easy to build an app that brings out the unique capabilities of your camera. In this session you will learn how to build a Metro style device app that is automatically installed with the camera. This session will also cover how developers can use Windows APIs to bring branded video and photo capabilities to their own Metro style apps.
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Seamlessly interacting with web and local data
by Manav Mishra
Windows 8 is the PC-reimagined. Its rich, powerful file system is available to all Metro style apps. Come find out more about the file landscape! This talk will give you an overview of the various file mechanisms available in Windows 8, the details behind them, and their intended purpose. Learn how to integrate local and web data seamlessly into your apps using the Windows 8 platform. This talk will include specific examples and information to help you build great Metro style apps!
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Understanding the Windows 8 graphics driver model
by Ameet Chitre and Roger Coote
In Windows 8, the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) has evolved through several innovations in the graphics sub-system that will enable you to deliver great Windows user and developer experiences. This session will cover how to design and build Windows 8 systems with WDDM capable hardware and drivers.
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Using Windows Server 8 for building private and public IaaS clouds
by Jeff Woolsey, Sandeep Singhal and Yigal Edery
Windows Server 8 is the first operating system to be optimized to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for building private and public clouds. With Windows Server 8, customers will be able to build scalable and flexible clouds, rapidly migrate their existing apps and services, and efficiently manage and monitor the cloud. With hundreds of new features in Hyper-V, encompassing networking, storage and more, Windows Server 8 creates several new opportunities for software, hardware and solution partners, as well as hosters, to extend and manage clouds. This session provides an overview of how Windows Server 8 enables IaaS and the rich, new development opportunities provided by the release.
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What's new in Visual Studio 11 for Application Lifecycle Management
by Cameron Skinner and Brian Keller
Microsoft’s application lifecycle management tooling is all about enabling teams to deliver great software. In this demo-packed session, you will learn how to more effectively plan and track work by using the new Web-based project management tools; how to bridge the divide between development and operations by utilizing IntelliTrace in your production environments; and how to help keep team members on-task and “in the zone” with the new “My Work” and code review features. In addition to making your team more productive, we will show you how you can boost your overall code quality with new features such as code clone and an overhauled unit testing story in Visual Studio 11.
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Windows Server 8 apps must run without a GUI - learn more now
by Andrew Mason
All server apps should be restructured to run on Windows Server systems without a GUI stack, or with all GUI components found on a Windows Client system; this is a Windows Server 8 best practice. This talk explains how to ensure your server apps will work in Windows Server 8 when the GUI shell is uninstalled, how to ensure your app is remotely manageable, and how this positions your app for no GUI stack. This talk will also cover how to use PowerShell to quickly and easily add and/or enhance your remote management capabilities.
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Windows Server 8 software and hardware certification
by Sandy Arthur and Venkat Krishnamachari
This session will discuss the software and hardware certification of products designed for Windows Server 8. Come and learn the differences between client and server hardware certification requirements, tests and policies. The speakers will share the relevant details in these areas that are new, specific, optional (“If-Implemented”), or do not apply to devices and systems designed for Windows Server 8. Changes to the “Unclassified” hardware category for Windows Server 8 will also be highlighted. This session will conclude with a preview of technical requirements (draft) for Windows Server 8 software certification and the upcoming Beta of the self-test Server App Certification kit.
Microsoft BUILD 2011
United States United States, Anaheim
13th–16th September 2011
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