Brussels Girl Geek DinnerWindows 8 App development

Who Am I?

Elise Daans

Managing Partner at 2IT / AppStory (the Cronos Group)

Technical Background as Developer / Analyst

@Ellliiissseee Elise.daans@appstory.be

Development fun?

The fun of coding started with my first: ‘Hello world’ in C

It only became more fun when learning Java, .NET,…

The sheer joy of making things

The pleasure of making things that are useful 2005: started working as Developer @ 2IT

• Analysis:bringing your own ideas / design to life is even more FUN!

• PM:make de development process run more smoothly for developer & client

2011: Managing Partner of 2IT 2012: Birth of AppStory

new Company telling the Windows 8 Story

http://www.appstory.be - info@appstory.be - @AppStoryBe

Story tellers: Kristof Rennen (my sacoche) & Elise Daanss

Windows 8 App Development

Opportunity

500M(over 1 billion Win

devices)

Windows

247M

Android

152M

iOS

30M

Mac

As of December 2011

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All the apps you want

Apps are the heart of Windows 8

The apps you need are built right in

Apps work together and make each other better

Windows 8 Platform

Metro style Apps

HTMLJavaScri

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CC++

C#VB

Desktop Apps

Win32

.NET / SL

Internet Explore

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Communication

& Data

Application Model

Devices & Printing

WinRT APIsGraphics &

Media

Syst

em

Serv

ices

JavaScript(Chakra)

CC++

C#VB

XAML HTML / CSSVie

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Windows Core OS ServicesCore

Getting Started

What do you need? Windows 8 Visual Studio 2012

Professional, Premium, Ultimate Express For Windows 8

Store token And the most important:

How can we Help?

Learn on your own speed! Windows 8 App labs – good place to start

Windows 8 Camp in a box – step by step (offline) tutorials for everyone!

Channel 9 Build your first Store app Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C#

Community Support MADN

Metro App Developer Network http://www.madn.be/ Monthly sessions Competitions

Azug Windows Azure User Group http://www.azug.be/ Monthly sessions, with frequently international speakers Bi-yearly dev competition with amazing prizes (e.g. Dublin

datacenter tour)

Microsoft Support

TALK & Get feedback from the professionals to get your App in the store!

Now is the time! Windows 8 is here! Start your app-gines! Monetize on the biggest dev opportunity ever Use what you know from .NET or HTML/JS

ENJOY!!