You’ll have to sign an NDA to participate as the prototypes are confidential. It’s a great opportunity not only for an early look at some ideas Microsoft has, but more importantly for an opportunity to significantly influence the direction Microsoft take.

Please contact Steven if you are interested.

Developer Events, Windows 8

Workshop: Programming Metro-style Apps

10/7/2012 Craig Murphy

Programming Metro-style Apps Workshops are a unique event in the UK designed to help developers get started on the road to building software for Windows 8 and Windows RT. We take you from the point of having done “Hello, world” and the basics and lift you up to the next level where you can start building real retail and line-of-business apps on the platform.

You’ll learn:

How and why Windows was “reimagined”

The fundamentals of moving from .NET

Asynchronous programming

Sandboxing and protection

Unit testing

Working with SQLite

Sharing, search, notifications

Application lifetime and background activities

Packaging, private deployment, and store deployment

…and more

We guarantee by the end of the session you’ll have a firm understanding of Metro-style development on Windows 8 and Windows RT.

The presentations will be given by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, an expert in developing on the Microsoft platform an author of a half-dozen books on the subject. Matthew is also an occasional contributor to the Guardian’s technology section and his Programming Metro-style Apps in C# book will be published by O’Reilly in November.