Joe Stegman: Windows 8 User Interface




Bytes by MSDN (MP4) - Channel 9 show

Summary: Joe Stegman talks about creating XAML UI for Windows Store apps.    He mentions the flexibility of XAML being accessible from C++, VB and C#, and the great performance you will get out of the engine (which is written in native code).  Learn more about the new XAML UI platform at the Windows devcenter and follow Joe’s advice and start building your apps. Ready to Get Started? Visit the Windows Developer Center for a myriad of sample, docs and guidelines Join the GenerationApp program and get a jumpstart building your Windows Store app.   About Joe Joe Stegman is the Group Program Manager for the Windows UI Platform team.  Joe previously worked on developer platform related technologies as part of the Silverlight team and prior to that spent several years building a UI Framework and supporting UI development tools as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team.  Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.About Tim Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI) in Rich Client and Rich Internet Application (RIA) Technologies like Silverlight & WPF on the computer, the Surface, and Windows Phone 7. He has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launch events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a speaker for the International .NET Associat