Visual Studio Live! - Las Vegas 2013

Update: Slides and code are now available over on the Events page!

I will be presenting a session at Visual Studio Live! in Las Vegas this March 25-29 at the MGM Grand. The conference is a full 5 day event and there’s still time to register!

W01 Building Your First Windows Phone 8 Application
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Time: 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Level: Introductory

Expand your mobile horizons with Windows Phone 8! Developing applications for the phone is extremely similar to building a XAML application for the desktop. In this session, I will demonstrate the fundamentals of Windows Phone development while building a very simple application which covers all of the important points of the new platforms architecture, including the developer tools and device emulator and touch input.

W20 Building a Windows Runtime Component with C#
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Time: 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Level: Intermediate

A properly written Windows Runtime components can be consumed by C#/VB, HTML/JavaScript, and C++ applications. In this session, we will discuss how to design and build a Windows Runtime component in C# such that it can be consumed by all languages. Specifically, we will look at passing the right types across the ABI, how to create events that can be consumed, and how to create asynchronous methods, and much more!

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Hope to see you all there!