DevRadio: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

Jerry Nixon welcomes Ivan Stojiljkovic and Jelena Mojasevic from the Microsoft offices in Serbia as they discuss the new features and capabilities found in the Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime. Tune in for this highly informative session where they show us how you can use the OCR Library to extract text from images In your apps. More…

DevRadio: How to use Visual Studio to Build Hybrid Apps that run on iOS, Android and Windows devices

Jerry Nixon welcomes Chuck Lantz, a Sr. Program Manager from the Visual Studio client team to the show as they discuss how you can build Hybrid apps for iOS, Android and Windows devices using Visual Studio with Apache Cordova integration. Tune in for this highly informative session and learn how you can deploy apps to a variety of platforms using a single project based on HTML and JavaScript.

DevRadio: How to Include Advertising in Your Windows 8 apps

Jerry Nixon, Ian Ferreira and Lucas Stankiewicz from the Ad Experiences team discuss ways in which developers can use advertising in their apps to help monetize their applications. Tune in as they show you how to get started with the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.

DevRadio: (Part 2) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps

Jerry Nixon and Tyler Gibson are back for part 2 of their UX design guidance series and in today’s episode, Tyler showcases the Netflix and Newegg apps for Windows 8 as good examples of apps that make it easier for users to find and process information.

DevRadio: (Part 1) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps

Jerry Nixon welcomes Tyler Gibson for this 2 part series on UX design considerations you may want to consider for your Windows 8 apps that handle large amounts of data. In part 1, they discuss best practices and how users evaluate, interpret and act on information.

DevRadio: Using the GeoLocation API for Your Windows 8 Apps

Jerry Nixon welcomes Janet Schneider, Mark Inderhees and Frank Chen to the show as they discuss the Geolocation API for Windows 8 app developers. Tune in as they discuss its benefits, features and how to implement it in your app.

DevRadio: Reactive Extensions for Windows 8

Bart De Smet from the Reactive Extensions team joins Jerry Nixon for today’s episode as they discuss the importance of using Rx and LINQ in their Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they share some background info as well as best practices for .NET developers who want to streamline their code and push their data in real time to users.

DevRadio: Making the most out of OData for Your Windows 8 Apps

Mark Stafford from the OData team joins Jerry Nixon on today’s episode as they discuss anything and everything to do with OData for your Windows 8 apps. Tune as they take a deep dive into OData sources, its new release strategy and upcoming features.

DevRadio: Roaming Your Windows 8 App Data

Jerry Nixon welcomes Dan Somrack and Dave Bennett to the show as they discuss how and why you would want to roam your Windows 8 app data. Tune in as they chat about what it is, why its important as well as how to implement it in your app.

DevRadio: SkyDrive and your Windows 8 Apps

Jerry Nixon and Harrison Hoffman from the SkyDrive team discuss how developers can utilize SkyDrive for their Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss the best use scenarios for SkyDrive as well as comparisons to Windows Azure.

DevRadio: Building Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013

Jerry Nixon welcomes Mike Morton, Mark Wilson-Thomas and Saurabh Bhatia as they discuss how and why you should start building apps for Office and SharePoint 2013. Tune in as we discuss the new cloud app model for Office and SharePoint and how it provides you with the maximum amount of choice and flexibility to build your apps using familiar languages, tools and hosting services.

DevRadio: Integrating Microsoft Translator into your Windows 8 apps

Jerry Nixon welcomes Vikram Dendi and Sandor Maurice from the Microsoft Translator team as they discuss ways in which you can integrate Microsoft Translator into your Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps. Tune in as they discuss the AJAX and SOAP interface as well as the Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012.

DevRadio: XAML and Windows 8 App Development

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Principal Program Lead, Tim Heuer to the show as they discuss all things XAML for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Tune in as they chat about it history plus new features in XAML and Visual Studio 2012 as well as “Project Callisto”

Next Steps:
Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development
Step #2 – Download Visual Studio Express for Windows 8
Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8

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• Getting started with Windows 8 Apps
• How to Sell Your Apps and Make Money in the Windows Store
• Attend a Windows 8 Developer Camp and Hackathon in your area!

Blogs & Articles:

• Jerry Nixon’s Blog
• Tim Heuer’s Blog
• Get Started Microsoft Blend

Videos:

• Microsoft DevRadio: Managing Your Windows 8 Enterprise Apps with Windows Intune
• Microsoft DevRadio: Your Top Windows Store Questions Answered

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• Windows 8 Virtual Labs

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DevRadio: Building Your Windows 8 Apps with XAML and Blend

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Navit Saxena and Hari Menon from the Microsoft Blend team to the show as they discuss the latest features and improvements made in Blend as it pertains to XAML developers and its integration with Visual Studio 2012. Tune in as they chat about how Blend can make life so much easier for Windows 8 app developers as well as where to learn more about this great product.

DevRadio: Using Xamarin to Create the Draw a Stickman app for Windows 8

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Jerry Nixon welcomes CEO of Xamarin, Nat Friedman and President of Hitcents, Chris Mills to the show as they discuss how Hitcents used Xamarin’s MonoTouch to launch their app, “Draw a Stickman EPIC” on Windows 8. Tune in as they chat about the ins-and-outs on how easy it was to use Xamarin’s platform to launch their app in the Windows Store and across multiple platforms.

DevRadio: Integrating Bing Maps into Your Windows 8 apps

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Ian Bennett and Jim Blizzard to the show as they discuss how they integrated a Bing Map into their Windows 8 app. Tune in as they chat about the Bing Maps SDK, along with the why, how-to and lessons learned from developing with Bing Maps.

DevRadio: Windows Phone 8 Features Overview

Technical Evangelists Jerry Nixon, Daniel Egan and Ryan Lowdermilk discuss their Top 20 (give or take) Windows Phone 8 features. Tune in as they discuss NFC support, Data Sense, Geolocation, Writable OS Tasks, Bluetooth and Skype APIs and much, much more!

DevRadio: Developing your Windows 8 Apps using Visual C++

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Eric Battalio, Ayman Shoukry and Raman Sharma from the Visual C++ team as they discuss how you can develop Windows 8 apps using C++. Tune in as they provide best practices and reasons why you would want to use this language.

DevRadio: You’re Coding from the Wrong End! Adventures in Advanced Data Modeling

This is a combined post of part 1, 2, and three especially united for my readers. in this episode I have a lot of fun with Buck Woody who has forgotten more about Data Modeling that most of us. Listen in and take a course with the professor.

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr. Technology Specialist from the Windows Azure team, Buck Woody to the show as they kick-off their 3 part series on how data applies to developers and how this ties in with Windows Azure’s service offerings. Tune in for part 1 of this 3 part series as they discuss data modeling and how this should be used first in the design process.

DevRadio: Managing Windows 8 Enterprise Apps

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Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr. Program Manager Mark Williams from the Windows Intune team as they discuss how developers can deploy and manage their Windows 8 Enterprise Apps with Windows Intune.