Sessions - Technology: Windows 8
Building Metro Style Applications in Windows 8
Technology/Platform: Windows 8
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Start Time: Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 1:45 PM
Location: Sagewood / Zebrawood
Abstract: The recent announcement of Windows 8 and the Metro interface has caused a lot of excitement. It has also raised a lot of questions for .NET developers. What’s WinRT? Does this mean that .NET or Silverlight or WPF are going away? Will my existing .NET skills transfer over to this new paradigm? What happens to desktop applications? How do I write Metro style applications? This presentation will answer all these questions and give developers a better idea of where Windows is heading in the future. You will see how to develop Metro style applications using both HTML 5/JavaScript stack as well as with C# with XAML. You’ll see how Metro style applications are fundamentally different from traditional desktop applications and discuss the attributes of a quality Metro style application.
Presented By: James Bender
About the Speaker: James is the Vice President of Technology at Improving Enterprises in Columbus, OH. James has been involved in software development and architecture for 16 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, TDD, SOA, WCF, WF, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is a Microsoft MVP. James book "Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD" was release in May of 2011
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Building Windows 8 Applications with HTML 5 and jQuery
Technology/Platform: Windows 8
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Start Time: Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 11:00 AM
Location: Salon G
Abstract: One of the many new advances in Windows 8 is the ability to create Windows applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this session, we'll take a look at the Windows 8 technology stack on which these applications run, how HTML/CSS/JS apps actually run, and discuss the implications of the different ways to utilize third party libraries such as jQuery. We'll then migrate an MVC application which utilizes jQuery into a Metro-style application. By the end of this session, you'll have a solid idea of what it means to have a Metro-style application built with web technologies.
Presented By: Rich Dudley
About the Speaker: For an entire decade, Rich inhabited cubicles at several companies in the same office park, eventually leading a team of developers building data warehouses, web-based BI applications and integrating mission critical systems. Today, as a Technical Evangelist for ComponentOne, Rich travels the country sharing new technologies with an eye toward the usefulness of these technologies to the poor souls still in their cubicles. Rich has been working with Azure since the early beta days, with Windows Phone 7 since before you could leave one in a bar, and is co-author of "Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development" from Packt Publishing (http://bit.ly/msazurebook). Follow Rich's blog at http://c1.ms/c1_richd, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/rj_dudley.
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CANCELLED - Windows 8: Porting a Real SilverLight Application to WinRT
Technology/Platform: Windows 8
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Start Time: Friday January 13, 2012 @ 9:30 AM
Location: Salon G
Abstract: Windows 8 is coming and there is a brand new kid in town called Windows Runtime (WinRT) to build applications. In this session we are going to look at what it takes to port an existing SilverLight application to run natively in the Metro interface within Windows 8. We'll be using a real world production application written in SilverLight that has Facebook and Twitter features (in other words this is not some contrived demo example). We'll walk through what's missing, what didn't work, what was hard, what was easy, what is painful and what is awesome. After leaving this session developers will have a real world benchmark of what it is going to take to port existing SilverLight applications to Windows 8 and WinRT.
Presented By: Keith Elder
About the Speaker: Keith Elder is the co-host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a Director of Software Engineering at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI and is the founder of the Hattiesburg, MS .Net User Group called Hub City NUG. Keith is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek. As an experienced educator, trainer and speaker he has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from top auto manufactures, fortune 500 companies and Universities. As a Microsoft MVP he speaks throughout the United States at major technical conferences, Code Camps, and .Net User Groups. Keith’s ability to explain complex topics with a friendly common sense southern attitude make him a highly regarded speaker at technical conferences. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/.
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Parallel Programming in Windows 8 Metro Applications
Technology/Platform: Windows 8
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Start Time: Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 1:45 PM
Location: Salon G
Abstract: Windows 8 will bring a new style of Windows applications: Metro. Metro style applications bring a new set of issues in writing applications that take full advantage of our computers. When do I use the new Async capabilities of .Net 4.5, and when do I use the Task Parallel Library? What happens when Windows 8 suspends my application when switching to another Metro application? Come learn the answers to these questions and others as we explore parallel programming in Metro applications.
Presented By: Michael Slade
About the Speaker: Michael Slade is an Applications Programmer – Lead with Progressive Insurance. Prior to joining Progressive, he was a senior software engineer with ABB, where he spent 12 years building real-time, highly concurrent Windows applications to help ABB customers automate their chemical, power, and manufacturing plants.
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Windows 8 Metro App with Near Field Communication
Technology/Platform: Windows 8
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Start Time: Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 3:35 PM
Location: Aloeswood / Leopardwood
Abstract: So Windows 8 is just cool! Add NFC to that and we have a super cool experience. We will create a simple metro app with Windows 8 , add ability to use NFC to communicate with another Windows 8 machine and create a multi player game. You will see how easy it is to use NFC in Windows 8 and write your own application.
Presented By: Parag Joshi
About the Speaker: Parag Joshi (@ilovethexbox ) is an independent consultant and has over 13 years software development experience working on various Microsoft based technologies. He has been developing on .NET since the first beta. He is an active member of the Cincinnati .NET User Group (@CINNUG) and runs an XNA Linked-In User Group at http://LetsXNA.org with support from CINNUG. With the new Windows Phone 7 ecosystem, he is busy developing Windows Phone XNA games for his 7 year old son and getting advanced input from his 15 month old daughter. You can check out the Let’s XNA site for more community XNA game development.
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