Add an eventSessions at Microsoft BUILD 2011 about Metro Design Language with video
Tuesday 13th September 2011
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your Metro style app, video and audio, Part 1
by Gabe Frost
This session provides an overview of the Windows multimedia platform for Metro style apps and a primer on APIs in the Windows.Media namespace to accomplish scenarios such as playback, capture, streaming and transcode.
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Create Metro style apps quickly with built-in controls
by Paul Gusmorino and Sean Hume
Windows 8 introduces a new and ready-to-use set of user interface controls to help create beautiful Metro style apps quickly. Learn about these powerful and highly-flexible controls and how to use them to implement the common patterns that deliver great Windows 8 Metro style apps.
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Using the Windows Runtime from C# and Visual Basic
by Harry Pierson and Jesse Kaplan
C#, Visual Basic and the .NET tools have first-class support for the Windows Runtime. Learn about this integration and how to use C# and Visual Basic to write Metro style apps that call the Windows Runtime and how to build libraries that integrate with your Metro style apps using HTML.
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Your Metro style app, video and audio, Part 2
by Daniel Schneider and Tim Onders
Come to this session to see how easily sophisticated media playback can be built into Metro style apps. We will show you how the HTML5 video element enables playback easily with great UI, and how you can take your Metro style app to the next level by accessing Windows functionality from the app. You will learn how to build your own custom media components (codecs, streaming formats, effects, etc.) into your app, to extend beyond what Windows 8 offers.
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Bringing existing C++ code into Metro style apps
by Ale Contenti
This talk will cover how to use C++ to target the new Windows Runtime surface. Beyond just learning how to write apps in C++, you will see how to create new libraries or reuse existing components that you can seamlessly combine with Metro style apps using JavaScript, C#, and other C++ apps.
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Build your first Metro style game
by Chas Boyd
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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Introducing Metro style device apps
by Eugene Lin and Mitch Rundle
Device makers often create apps as a way to differentiate their device experience and highlight device capabilities. Windows 8 makes this easy to do with new Metro style device apps that enable device makers to build and deliver unique experiences for their devices. This session will provide an overview of Metro style device apps, including how apps can extend the built-in device experiences and integrate with the Windows 8 user interface.
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Make great Metro style apps that are touch-optimized using HTML5
by Nick Waggoner and Reed Townsend
Build great Windows 8 Metro style apps that are touch-optimized using HTML technologies and DOM touch and gesture events. Learn how to create touch experiences using standard controls and behaviors, and build highly responsive panning and zooming capabilities that customers will love. This session will also teach you how to include mouse interaction with no additional work, and handle multiple types of input in a unified way.
Thursday 15th September 2011
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Bring apps to life with Metro style animations in HTML5
by Dale Rogerson and Jason Beaumont
Animations are fundamental in making Metro style apps lively and beautiful. Discover the animation library in Windows 8 and see how to bring these great animations to your apps with standard CSS 3.0 transitions and animations. In this session, you will learn how using standard templates and controls bring these polished animations along for free. You will also explore the library and learn how to add these smooth and elegant animations and transitions from the Windows 8 personality to your app’s experience!
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Code with confidence: dynamic web content in Metro style apps using HTML5
by John Hazen
Through this session, learn how to take full advantage of local computer devices and resources without sacrificing traditional Web content and services. Come to this session to learn how Windows 8 enables you to integrate these capabilities in your apps while minimizing the risks associated with accessing content from the Web, even from untrusted sources. You will see how easy it is to bring your Metro style apps to life with dynamic content, Web data feeds, and OAuth-based services while maintaining the integrity of your Windows app.
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Enabling trials and in-app offers in your Metro style app
by Arik Cohen
Customers love to try an app before they buy it. Come learn how the Windows Store makes it easy for you to offer time-limited or feature-limited trial versions of your apps as well as how to create and capture ongoing value using in-app commerce.
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Under the covers with C++ for Metro style apps
by Deon Brewis
In this talk, you'll go deep into the new C++ for Windows Runtime, meet with some of the developers on the compiler teams that designed the language extension for C++, and open the lid to see the wiring the compiler provides. We’ll discuss the new C++ for Metro style apps, including the syntax, the performance characteristics, the compilation model, and more. If you're a C++ programmer, don't miss this talk!
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A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style apps using HTML
Learn how to use Expression Blend to visually construct, style and layout Metro style apps using HTML for Windows 8. In this session, we will demonstrate how Expression Blend makes it possible to create a better user experience with greater productivity. We’ll start with semantic markup and JavaScript-generated content, and then we will demonstrate how to use Expression Blend to customize the user experience for Windows 8.
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Best practices for writing safe and secure Metro style apps using HTML5
by David Weston and Kamen Moutafov
As you build your Metro style app using HTML5, follow these concrete and useful best practices to ensure it is safe and secure. In this session, you will learn patterns for handling untrusted input, working with Web content and protecting sensitive data thereby inspiring confidence in your users that your app will keep their data safe.
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Bring pen and touch input to your Metro style apps with ink
by Annie Chowdhry and Jay Pittman
Metro style apps are much better with ink! In Windows 8, you code your Metro style apps for touch, and get pen and mouse support for free. In addition, with the new Windows 8 API for ink, you can expand your app’s capability and support ink strokes with precise control over Pen width and color. Add ink notations to your app, build an electronic whiteboard for families, create an app for the next Picasso—all these are possible. Interacting with your computer is going to be easier than ever with ink-enabled Metro style apps in Windows 8!
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Reaching more customers with accessible Metro style apps in HTML5
by Guy Barker
Create and build accessible Metro style apps to reach more customers. Accessibility support is built into each stage of creating an app and includes accessible templates, samples, controls and accessibility testing tools. Come learn how to make your apps accessible in screen reading, keyboard navigation and visual experience with a minimal amount of effort. You will also learn how to make your app more visible and how to sell your app in the Windows Store.
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Search: integrating into the Windows 8 search experience
by Priya Vaidyanathan
Will users of your Metro style app need to search through the app’s content? Come learn to leverage the Windows search contract to allow your app to search local files, an existing web service, or custom data. By the end, you will know how to make searching within your app reachable from anywhere in the OS, the right design and code patterns to use when implementing search from any language, and how to customize the experience and take advantage of built-in features.
Microsoft BUILD 2011
United States United States, Anaheim
13th–16th September 2011
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