Sessions at Microsoft BUILD 2011 about JavaScript on Wednesday 14th September

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.

Whether you’re building a new Website using ASP.NET or maintaining an existing one, you’ll leave this talk ready use HTML5 & CSS3 on ASP.NET with Visual Studio. We’ll look at what HTML5 & CSS3 have to offer modern app developers and how you can use them with ASP.NET for rich Web apps both today and tomorrow.

Metro style apps using JavaScript allow developers to combine the powerful and vibrant Web platform with the rich capabilities of Windows, to build exciting apps for Windows 8. JavaScript developers building Metro style apps have access to not just all of the Web platform, but also hundreds of Windows APIs, as well as opportunities to leverage custom native components. This talk will focus on how JavaScript developers can use the Windows Runtime and consume custom native components from JavaScript. With examples taken from rich Windows 8 capabilities like media, networking, sensors, and file systems, you’ll get an in depth look at how you can leverage the best of Windows in your Metro style apps using JavaScript.

In this session, you'll see the Windows libraries for JavaScript, the toolkit developed specifically to build first-class Metro style apps using HTML. You'll see how to define classes and namespaces, how to handle app-level features and events, how to split your app into multiple HTML file fragments and load them as your user navigates between pages of your app, how to use templates and data binding and more. If you're a JavaScript programmer, this session is for you!

If you are a developer, you probably hear something about "HTML5" almost every day. HTML5 knocks down the walls that previously held back sites and apps built with web technologies. This session introduces the new HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript features of Internet Explorer 10.