Now that we’ve recovered from the excitement of Build 2015 last week, with its many keynotes packed with important announcements and 200 sessions, there’s much to digest, and we wanted to make it easier for you to quickly find some of the most popular sessions, now posted on Channel 9.
This list is just a snapshot, and you’ll find ALL the sessions over on Channel 9 at the Build 2015 event page.
Let us know your favorite sessions in the comments or @wpdev. As always, get your hands dirty with Visual Studio and the Windows 10 tooling plus the Universal Windows Platform samples from Build 2015.
UWP Features
- Introducing the Windows 10 App Model
- Tiles, Notifications, and Action Center
- Cortana and Speech Platform In Depth
- Cortana Extensibility in Universal Windows Apps
- A Studio in the Palm of Your Hand: Developing Audio and Video Creation Apps for Windows 10
- Camera: Developing Powerful Camera Apps
- API Contracts (or How I Learned to Stop Checking OS Versions and Love Feature Detection)
- App Lifecycle: From Activation and Suspension to Background Execution and Multitasking in Universal Windows Apps
- User Data: Working with Contacts, Appointments, Text Messages and More on Windows 10
UX/Xaml/Graphics
- What’s New in XAML for Universal Windows Apps
- Introducing Win2D: DirectX-Powered Drawing in C#
- Use New Motion and Effects Features to Captivate Users and Truly Bring Your App to Life
- From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: Building Universal Windows App Experiences with XAML
- XAML Performance: Techniques for Maximizing Universal Windows App Experiences Built with XAML
Tooling
- A Lap Around .NET 2015
- Moving to the Universal Windows Platform: Porting an App from Windows 8.1 XAML or Windows Phone Silverlight to Windows 10
- What’s New in C# 6 and Visual Basic 14
Bridges
- Project Astoria: Build Great Windows Apps with Your Android Code
- Project Centennial: Converting your Classic Windows App (Win32, .Net, COM) to a Universal Windows App for Distribution in the Windows Store
- Project Islandwood: Compiling Objective-C Using the Visual Studio 2015 C++ Code Generation that Builds Windows, SQL, .Net, and Office
- Project Westminster: Hosted Web Apps and Web Platform
Internet of Things
- Internet of Things Overview
- Windows for Makers: Raspberry Pi 2, Arduino and More
- AllJoyn: Building Universal Windows Apps that Discover, Connect, and Interact with Other Devices and Cloud Services Using AllJoyn