Build 2014 Videos

Posted on April 6, 2014  •  4 minutes  • 644 words

This year’s Microsoft Build conference was jam packed with Windows Phone goodness. In fact, there is too much to take in at once. So what I’ve done for you is break it down into sections so that you can bookmark this page and come back at your leisure.

These videos are in no particular order, so review them all before you choose, enjoy!

Windows Phone Development

• Developing apps using the common XAML UI framework
• What’s new with Windows Phone Silverlight apps
• Using Visual Studio to build XAML converged apps
• Cortana Contextual Awareness
• Building your first Windows Unity game
• What about XAML UI and Controls?
• Integrating your app into the Windows Phone Speech Experience
• Building games for Windows
• Direct 3D 12 API preview
• Multitasking and triggered background tasks
• Notification platform development on Windows
• Innovations in high performance graphics with DirectX across Windows and Windows Phone
• Diagnosing issues in Windows Phone XAML apps using Visual Studio
• Modern camera and imaging apps in Windows and Windows Phone
• Navigation Model for Windows XAML applications
• Contracts and pickers: Building apps that work together on Windows
• Building video and audio streaming apps
• Building awesome experiences with Facebook
• Live Tiles enhancements
• Building geo-aware apps with maps and geofencing
• The new video edit APIs for Windows Phone: Windows.Media.Editing
• Strategies for developing cross device applications with VS 2013
• Windows runtime for Windows Phone developers
• App Studio for Windows and Windows Phone: pre-launch preview
• Extend your Windows apps with Nokia SDKs
• Building great Bluetooth apps for Windows Phone
• Dealing with data: Storage, roaming and backup on Windows and Windows Phone
• Sensors platform enhancements in Windows Phone
• Managing resource constraints on Windows Phone
• New integration opportunities with Wallet on Windows Phone
• Windows Platform SDL (Lifecycle) best practices
• Sequencers, synthesizers and software, Oh my! Building great music creation apps for Windows Store

Windows and Windows Phone Design related

• It’s a trap! 3 remarkably common UI traps and how to avoid them
• Animations in Windows Phone XAML apps
• From 4 to 40 inches: Developing Windows applications across multiple form factors
• Practical Design for Windows Phone
• Tips and tricks with designing a great Accessibility experience for your app

Market, Store, Performance and Analytics related

• Windows Phone and Windows Store and DevCenter
• Maximizing revenue for phone, tablet and pc apps in the Windows Store
• The story of Bing apps: Delight across multiple form factors
• Quality and performance for XAML apps
• Strategies for world domination: Design research advice for developers
• Understanding customer patterns: Instrumenting an app for telemetry and analytics
• Apps without borders. winning globally on Windows Platform
• App packaging and deployment for Windows devices
• Promote your app in search results
• Windows and Windows Phone: DevCenter and app submission deep dive
• Driving user engagement with your Windows app
• Automated testing for XAML based apps for Windows and Windows Phone
• Avoiding Windows Store app failures
• How to analyze performance issues in your Windows and Windows Phone apps

HTML, WinJS/javascript and Web related

• What’s new in WinJS? The road ahead.
• Diagnosing JavaScript issues with Windows Phone apps using Visual Studio
• HTML5 platform from web to apps
• Building Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox One apps using HTML/JS/CSS and C++
• Blending the web with platform capabilities
• Internet Explorer as a web application platform
• Building a converges phone and PC app using HTML and Javascript
• High performance web platform, problems and solutions
• Cutting edge graphics in HTML

Enterprise related

• Deploying and managing enterprise apps
• Wrap a mobile API around your enterprise and take data offline with NoSql on Windows Phone and Tablets
• Windows Phone enterprise management
• New security features for Windows Phone
• User data management in Windows Phone

Here is the main Ch9 Build 2014 page  if you want to look up any sessions not related to Windows or Windows Phone development. Let me know if you have any trouble with this page or if there is something you think I should add.

Happy coding!