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Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction

My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a developer at Microsoft.  For the past few months I've been working on a Windows 8 app along with a small team of developers from the Visual C++ team, we call it Project Code Name Austin. Austin is a digital note-taking app for Windows 8. You can add pages to your notebook, delete them, or move ...

The Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we announced the Metro style apps with C++ event. Since we announced the camp, there were a lot of requests for a live webcast. Thanks to Jaime who just posted on this blog, the event will be broadcasted live!Quoting Jaime:Event sold out within a few days, and we got a lot of requests for it to be ...

Building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ Windows camp

Hello all,We’re hosting a one day, free technical event in Redmond on May 18, 2012 intended for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 with C++. Details: Location: Redmond WA, Microsoft campus, bldg 92. Date:  May 18th, 2012 Time:  9 AM to 5 PM for sessions, Q&A and a small social event ...