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A Few Pictures from Microsoft Build

Microsoft Build was the coming out party for Windows 8 development. While there I took a few pictures with my phone. Here are just a few of them I thought worth sharing. Yes, they are primarly slide presentations, but I figured that information was more interesting than seeing people! The slide that was most interesting: […]

Oct 24, 2011
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Microsoft Build was the coming out party for Windows 8 development. While there I took a few pictures with my phone. Here are just a few of them I thought worth sharing. Yes, they are primarly slide presentations, but I figured that information was more interesting than seeing people!

The slide that was most interesting:

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A closer look at the part that mentions Metro and the WinRT APIs:
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And the Metro API breakout:
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Of course, building Metro apps, requires Metro controls. Here are the ones coming:

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That’s just a few of the slides. Hopefully the information is useful.

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