{"id":2163,"date":"2012-07-10T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2012-07-10T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:24:41","slug":"workshop-programming-metro-style-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Workshop: Programming Metro-style Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"metro logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/metro1.png\" style=\"float:right\" \/>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 &#8220;Hello, world&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How and why Windows was &#8220;reimagined&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The fundamentals of moving from .NET<\/li>\n<li>Asynchronous programming<\/li>\n<li>Sandboxing and protection<\/li>\n<li>Unit testing<\/li>\n<li>Working with SQLite<\/li>\n<li>Sharing, search, notifications<\/li>\n<li>Application lifetime and background activities<\/li>\n<li>Packaging, private deployment, and store deployment<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"book cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/metro2.png\" style=\"float:right\" \/>We guarantee by the end of the session you&#8217;ll have a firm understanding of Metro-style development on Windows 8 and Windows RT.<\/p>\n<p>The presentations will be given by <a href=\"http:\/\/mbrit.com\/\">Matthew Baxter-Reynolds<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/matthew-baxter-reynolds\">Guardian&#8217;s technology section<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/programmingmetrostyle.com\/book.aspx\">Programming Metro-style Apps in C#<\/a> book will be published by O&#8217;Reilly in November. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The workshop will take place in Edinburgh on the 13th of September 2012; the venue is still TBC, but it will be central.<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metrostyle.eventbrite.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/metrostyle.eventbrite.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Hello, world&#8221; and the basics and lift you up to the next level where you can start &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=2163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Workshop: Programming Metro-style Apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,625],"tags":[620,588,719,630],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developer-events","category-windows-8","tag-matthew-baxter-reynolds","tag-metro","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}