TechEd North America Highlights for App Developers

[Guest Windows Apps Team]

Another great TechEd North America conference wrapped up recently, delivering to you a rich set of sessions and hands-on labs that complement and/or expand on what was presented earlier this year at //build 2014. Below are some of the highlights that are specifically directed to developers working with Windows Phone, Windows Store apps, enterprise/LOB apps, and desktop applications. As always, we encourage you to browse the TechEd content further on Channel 9. And if there are sessions or labs that you’d love to see in the future, such as TechEd Europe that’s coming up in late October 2014, let us know in the comments.

 

Universal Windows Apps/Windows Phone for C#/XAML

 

• The New Windows Phone Application Model
  
• Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 Store Apps Networking Survival Kit
  
• Live Tiles and Notifications for Windows Phone 8.1
  
• Multi-Tasking and Event-Triggered Background Processing for Windows Apps
  
• From 4 to 40 inches: Developing Windows Applications across Multiple Form Factors
  
• Windows Runtime for Windows Phone Developers
  
• Build for Both: Building Shared Apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1
  
• Sharing Code and UI with Universal Projects and Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS)
  
• Hands-On Lab: Using Blend to Design JavaScript-Based Windows Store Apps
  
• Hands-On Lab: Using Blend to Design XAML-Based Windows Store Apps
  

Cross-Platform Development

 

• Native Mobile Application Development for iOS, Android, and Windows in C# and Visual Studio Using Xamarin
  
• Building Multi-Device Apps with the New Visual Studio Tooling for Apache Cordova
  

Azure

 

• What’s New in Mobile Services and Notification Hubs
  
• High-Volume, Low Latency Mobile Push Notifications
  
• Building Microsoft Azure Mobile Services with Visual Studio
  
• The Microsoft Application Platform for Developers: Create Applications That Span Devices and Services
  
• Hands-On Lab: Introduction to Building Windows Store Apps with Microsoft Azure Mobile Services (JavaScript)
  

Enterprise, Line-of-Business, and Desktop Apps

 

• Wrap a Mobile API around Your Enterprise and Take Data Offline with NoSQL on Windows Phones and Tablets
  
• Respecting Your Investments: How to Leverage Your Existing Code in a New Windows Runtime LOB App
  
• Mobile Line-of-Business Applications in Microsoft Azure
  
• Support Your Demanding LOB Apps with SQLite on Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1
  
• Deploying and Managing Enterprise Apps on Windows and Windows Phone
  
• Windows Desktop Development: A Panel Discussion
  
• Windows Desktop Development Platform Advancements
  
• Entity Framework: Building Applications with Entity Framework 6
  
• Industrial-Strength Entity Framework
  
• Hands-On Lab: Entity Framework
  

Visual Studio and Tools

 

• Getting Started with Visual Studio Online
  
• Visual Studio Power User: Tips and Tricks
  
• Debugging Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013
  
• Hardcore Debugging
  
• Windows Performance Deep Dive Troubleshooting
  
• Modern Application Lifecycle Management
  
• Make Data-Driven, High-Impact Improvements to an Application with Application Insights
  
• Rapidly Detect Application Outages with Visual Studio Online Application Insights
  
• Hands-On Lab: New Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostic Tools
  

Languages

 

• Building a Large Scale JavaScript Application in TypeScript
  
• The Next Generation of .NET for Building Applications
  
• Favorite Things for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2013
  
• Hands-On Lab: What's New in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 for C++ Developers
  
• Hands-On Lab: Asynchronous Programming in the .NET
  

 

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