If you’re working on, or thinking about building, apps for Windows 8, and looking for some help or advice, you’ll be super interested to know about the upcoming office hours in the DC metro area. In the month of October, local Microsofties will be at our Chevy Chase, MD and Reston, VA offices. During these…
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HTML5 Game Starter Kit for Windows 8
Yesterday, Petri (@petriw) from Microsoft Norway published this awesome resource for creating HTML5 games for Windows 8. Want to create a game for Windows 8? And publish it to the new Windows Store? Many of the apps that are submitted to the Windows Store are failing certification because they didn’t know that a Privacy Policy…
Win a Nokia Lumia 900
Come by the Microsoft booth at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for your chance to win a Nokia Lumia 900! You can enter to win by creating your very first Windows Phone app. We have four tutorials for you to walk through to create your first app. You can do the tutorials…
Startup Weekend Blacksburg Recap
Shamelessly reblogged from the Microsoft BizSpark Group Blog! Our champions in DC area, Ashish Jaiman and Ed Donahue, were mentors at StartupWeekend Blacksburg just last week (Sept 14th – 16th ) held at Rackspace in Blacksburg. The event was a huge success, and our guy Ashish says “Wow, what a great event. We got to…
Windows 8 Hackathon @ Duke
On Friday I’ll be at Duke University in Durham, NC to run a 24-hour Windows Hackathon. Here are all the details: Our Hackathon is an open Windows 8 code fest. Code to your heart’s content and get familiar with all of the great Windows 8 features. It’s the perfect opportunity to get your dream application…
Windows 8 Session @ Duke
Windows 8 Session 9/20 8:00pm Schiciano Auditorium Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join us to learn about the new platform for building applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, and the integration points with the operating system and across Windows 8 apps. Talk a walk-through of some code to…
Game Development 101, Part 2
Can’t wait to get started on developing apps and games for Windows 8? I know, me too!! To help you get started, sign up for 30 to Launch to get tips and tricks in your inbox that will help you take your app from idea to in-store. This is the second post in a series…
Windows Store Open to All Developers!
Today’s an especially great day to be a developer. We’re very excited to announce the last significant milestone in the rollout of the Windows Store before the general availability of Windows 8 on October 26. The Store is now open for app submissions from all developers – individuals and companies – in our supported markets,…
Game Development 101, Part 1
Can’t wait to get started on developing apps and games for Windows 8? I know, me too!! To help you get started, sign up for 30 to Launch to get tips and tricks in your inbox that will help you take your app from idea to in-store. In this series, I’m going to go over some…
Windows 8 Learning Sessions at Virginia Tech
Windows 8 Learning Sessions Thursday, September 13th. 1pm-5pm Squires Student Center, Room 219 (parking info) Join us for a free learning sessions designed to help you start building applications for Windows 8 right away. We’ll show you how to use Visual Studio to code fast, fluid, immersive, and beautiful applications. Following the sessions, there will…