In this scenario-based CodeLab, you will learn how to build a ‘polyglot persistence’ data pattern that is common in modern cloud hosted applications. Requirements of modern applications, such as,…

This session will help you understand how Application Insights integrates with Visual Studio and assists in identifying performance issues with your code more quickly. Next, we'll look at the…

In this session you will learn advanced querying concepts with Analytic. It provides an overview of the telemetry data that Application Insights collect and how you can you use interactive querying…

This session includes 3 topics a) Future strategy for Contextual Sensing APIs and plan for Lumia Sensorcore API, b) Introduce 3 new Motion Sensing UWP APIs c) Sensing Remotely when sensors are not on…

In this code-focused session, N. Taylor Mullen digs into the advanced aspects of tag helpers, explaining how you can accomplish more difficult tasks. Along the way, he builds a great tag helper that…

In this session, learn how to leverage Spark to build intelligence into your applications.

Service Fabric deploys and manages distributed applications built as microservices. This session we will show you how to create Service Fabric clusters and walk through an ARM template. We will and…

Azure IoT: Today and Tomorrow

The Future of XAML

Ying, Yang and a Bang

Jeffrey Snover on Azure Stack, Powershell, and Nano Server

Azure AD

Python and node.js on Visual Studio

TypeScript and Angular 2

Converting your desktop app to use the Universal Windows Platform (Project Centennial)

Application Insights

Field: Brazil Recap

International Space Station Project

Keynote Review

Docker Tooling for Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core

Given prior history, Microsoft, Linux and OSS are not the terms you see often together in one sentence but the times have changed. In this session we will show how the new Microsoft is changing this…

Azure Table storage offers highly available, massively scalable storage so that your application can automatically scale to meet user demand. Azure Table Storage is Microsoft’s NoSQL key/attribute…

Want to offload your Testing? In the new DevOps world it is important to ship products faster with great quality, VSTS has tools to setup DevOps pipeline to achieve these goals. As part of the…

In this brief session Brady Gaster introduces the Azure App Service and the Visual Studio tools ASP.NET developers can use in Visual Studio to create and publish their ASP.NET applications to it.…

Benefits of moving your applications to cloud. Realize the simplicity & flexibility of managing your infrastructure.

Learn about new capabilities to allow Administrators to deploy Office Add-Ins from a central location with Azure Active Directory Groups.

Module extensibility allows app developers the ability to create new modules within Outlook. Similarly to Outlook's native mail, calendar and task modules developers can now provide their users with…

People API helps you build people centric applications with an endpoint that supports contextual search and fuzzy matching and returns the people that matter most.

Use the Microsoft Graph to build smarter apps that connect with Office data and insights. Make your app context aware and easily build people and group centric experiences interacting with documents,…

Come learn how to use v2.0 authorization model + Outlook and Microsoft Graph APIs to target 100s of millions of Outlook.com users and 10s of millions of Office 365 users!

Interested in using Outlook tasks in your app? Come learn about our new Outlook Tasks API in preview.

Find out how to get near real time notifications to changes in OneDrive and OneDrive for Business with service to service webhooks and OneDrive API.

Drill into the new Unified OneDrive file picker and what’s possible.

Find out how to use the new Skype for Business App SDK to directly embed chat, voice, and video conversations within your native iOS and Android apps for businesses and consumers.

For the developer in you that wants a library to simplify your coding, come and learn about the SDKs available for Microsoft Graph and how you can even make your own for .NET, iOS, and Android using…

Office Add-ins will be soon available on OneNote Online. Learn how you can create an Add-ins for OneNote.

Want to use our latest Free/Busy capability to get meeting time suggestions? Want to get./set your OOF status? This session is for you!

Overview of the OneDrive API for OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, highlights on what’s new, and a quick overview of the range of scenarios you can enable.

Want to see the easiest way to create rich content inside Office 365 Groups? Take a look at Connectors!

Excel has a rich JS API with lots of new functionality that enables add-ins to do deep manipulation of Excel data!

Worksheets, Tables, Ranges, Charts and more Excel capabilities via the new Excel REST API available in Microsoft Graph.

Do you want your app to respond dynamically to changes in data stored in Office 365 using the Microsoft Graph without polling? Webhooks are for you!

Office Add-ins will soon be available on the Office for Mac. Learn how you can side-load your add-in as well as debug using VorlonJS on the Mac.

Don't use Visual Studio? Don't worry! It's easy to build Office add-ins using your favorite development tools. In this video, we'll use the Yeoman generator, VS Code, and the browser to create and…

Create custom ribbon buttons, tabs and much more to deeply integrate your web add-in with Office. In this overview you will learn all about add-in commands, the cool new feature that enables web…

Learn how you can leverage Office Open XML to create amazing add-ins for Word!

Check out the new APIs we're enabling for Word add-ins and use them across Office platforms!

Building cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase was once just a dream. With Xamarin.Forms, this dream is now a reality. Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms…

Microsoft Azure Redis Cache is a secure, dedicated cache service from Microsoft, based on the Open Source Redis engine. In this session we will take a look at how you can leverage the new features to…

By supporting sign in with Microsoft identities, your application can have single sign on with Windows and Microsoft cloud applications, can protect your users with the same technology and investments…

Azure provides a wide range of virtual machine sizes for any workload that you might want to run. Trying to decide which size is right for your workload can seem challenging. Join this session to find…

If you are a SaaS application developer writing multitenant applications, you often face tradeoffs between development efficiency, manageability, as well as tenant performance and security. With Azure…

Application developers must support unprecedented rates of change – functionality must rapidly evolve to meet customer needs and respond to competitive pressures. To address these realities,…

In this video, you will learn how HockeyApp can help you in delivering and maintaining successful UWP apps. First, you will learn how to use HockeyApp to beta distribute your UWP app to testers. Then,…

Every serious app you deploy on Azure has critical secrets – connection strings, certificates, keys. Silly mistakes in managing these lead to fatal consequences – leaks, outages, compliance…

Join us to learn more about Azure Monitoring services and the new features introduced at Build 2016, allowing you to gain deeper insights into the state and health of your Azure resources as well as…

Power BI Custom visuals enable you to create magical data experiences tailored to your user and your applications. We will work through everything you need to know to build quality custom visuals…

Cortana Analytics Suite is a fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that transforms your data into intelligent action. It includes information management, data storage, analytics and…

Visual Studio 2015 provides the best in class C++ development experience whether you are targeting Windows, Android, iOS, Linux or IoT. With a good mix of demos and showcase for new…

Learn how the Cortana Analytics Process empowers you with a systematic approach to understand your raw data, and transform it into actions you can embed in intelligent applications. We will walk…

Field: Italy Recap

Field: Japan Recap Part 2

Field: Japan Recap Part 1

Jonathan Lipps, Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, joins Yosef Durr, Program Manager of the Windows Application Driver project, and Charles to discuss Appium support on Windows. Windows…

Marian Luparu and Ankit Asthana discuss reasons to move existing C++ code to Visual Studio 2015 and dig into the new C++ extension for Visual Studio Code.

NPR Xbox UWP

Field: Belgium Recap

The Windows SDK for Facebook is an open source implementation of Facebook’s Graph API that allows developers to integrate Facebook login/social features into their UWP apps. Through this presentation…

Take your Windows 10 UWP app to the four corners of the globe using Visual Studio 2015 + Multilingual App Toolkit. Integrated localization workflow makes reaching the next 1 billion customer just…

Introduction to creating a dialing application using Windows 10 public calling APIs, and a walkthrough of the Github sample app.

Learn the main design principles for building accessible apps including, common control usage, keyboard accessibility, programmatic accessibility and respecting the user settings, as well as some…

Get the power of Bing.com, available to you as an API! Learn about the new features provided with the offering and how to take advanantage of the capabilities to light up your own scenarios.

SQL and .NET has been a favorite language for developers and DBAs for decades. However over the last couple of years, data processing is increasingly moving towards Big Data processing and is posing…

With ever increasing amounts of connected "things" and volumes of data, visual representations are often key to decode the meaning behind the data and make better informed decision. The…

In the next release of Windows, we will bring spatial audio to UWP developers. Xbox, Windows Desktop, HoloLens, and Windows Mobile app developers will be able to add Spatial Audio to their UWP…

In this talk we’ll look at using the F12 Edge Dev Tools to instrument code just like you would with console.log but without having to redeploy your site.

In this talk we’ll look at how you can be more productive debugging events with the F12 Edge Dev Tools. Specifically, we’ll be looking at setting breakpoints on events, tracing them and figuring out…

In this talk we’ll look at some features in the F12 Edge Dev Tools that will make working with CSS that little bit easier. Specifically we’ll be looking at the track changes and CSS editing features…

Windows Hello already offers Windows 10 users a secure password alternative for accessing business networks, apps, and SaS applications and now we’re adding new support that will enable users to use…

Get an inside look at how the Edge team prevents regressions in, and expands support of, JavaScript frameworks in the browser and UWP web apps.

Engaging with your user base at the right time and with the appropriate message is key to your success as an app developer. Windows Dev Center provides a data-driven customer engagement platform that…

Acquiring customers for your app can be a challenge. Microsoft provides a "Promote your app" service that will allow you to attract customers using free or paid campaigns. The video shows…

Have you ever wondered if modifying in-app offer descriptions or ad placements in your app would boost conversions? Or whether modifying the difficulty in a particular game level might boost user…

This presentation covers the capabilities that allow multiple users to access a Dev Center account to manage apps and collaborate. Learn how to create and link an Azure AD from Dev Center, and how to…

For corporate owned devices, there is often a need to restrict the experience to one or more Line of Business applications, creating a curated lockdown experience such as a kiosk or a specialized task…

PlayReady is a popular technology for securing video and music services. With Windows 10 a new version of PlayReady adds features requested by premium video services to support hardware security.…

Attract more customers in the Store by making your apps more visible and enticing. Learn about how you can improve the appearance of your products in the Store and how this impacts discovery through…

Windows Dev Center offers a wide range of options for accessing your app's analytics data. With the new Windows Store analytics API, you now have programmatic access to this data, including advanced…

Enabling existing desktop applications (Win32, .NET, etc.) to become part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) ecosystem is a key part of the Windows 10 vision. This session will cover the…

App Feedback gives you a new channel for hearing from your customers. Learn how to add an option for your customers so they can submit, upvote, and comment on feedback about your app. Everything your…

Learn how Windows Store allows you to do testing in production using package flighting -- delivering different binaries for the same app to different groups of people. Also learn about new features…

Learn what's new with monetization in Dev Center and the SDK. We'll show a hands on coding walkthrough adding banner and interstitial ads into a C++ app, but note that the same concepts apply…

Looking for an update on UI Test Automation? This session covers both Browser and App testing. Great news for Windows application testing! We are launching a new UI test service based on the WebDriver…

In this session, you will learn how to use the Mobilize.NET migration tool to convert Windows Phone Silverlight applications to the Universal Windows Platform. In addition to the automated process, we…

In this introduction we will cover the basic considerations for making your applications accessible to the widest set of users, showing how you can work with the Windows UI Automation framework and…

In this brief video, Jeff Petty from the Windows Accessibility Team, provides an overview of some of the new accessibility features coming to Windows in 2016. He shares information about how Microsoft…

Most apps need to store data. This session will teach you the design principles to model and store your UWP app data so that it is preserved via Backup/Restore, synced across devices via app data…

Windows 10 is an exciting release from an Identity point of view with many new additions like Azure Active Directory Join, Web Account Manager, Microsoft Passport, and Windows Hello. This session is a…

Enabling people to access their corporate apps and data on their devices, whether in the office or on the road, doesn’t need to be a challenge. Windows 10 helps protect corporate resources though…

In the this short talk Chris and Kelly will explore key concepts, code and demos for getting started with the Windows.UI.Composition effects system. You’ll learn how to describe, animate and chain…

With Windows 10 strong authentication and biometrics we’re poised for mainstreaming on Windows devices with Microsoft Passport and Windows Hello. These solutions are about to become more flexible than…

This talk assumes you have an understanding of using the Windows UI EffectBrush (presented in Talk One) and want to learn some new techniques like shadows, scene based and backdrop effects to take…

In this video, you’ll see how C++ Coroutines can dramatically simplify the Async coding pattern for UWP, whilst boosting readability and maintainability. As with many other languages,…

Learn to use the new animation engine to create custom and responsive motion experiences in your Universal Windows Application. This talk is a deep dive on how to use expression animations in the…

Connected animations provides a way for developers to run animations while the user is moving between scenes or pages. This helps user to main focus on the right thing and orient them as they land in…

Implicit Animations helps developers to declare their animations/behavior ahead of time and as changes happen to properties in application related animations are played by the system implicitly…

This session covers the use of non-volatile memory (NVDIMM-N) in a byte-addressable mode with a DirectAccess (DAX), a.k.a. zero-copy file system in Windows Server 2016. In this mode, DAX-aware…

This session covers why non-volatile memory - in the form of NVDIMM-N - is an important storage medium of interest to application developers and DevOps experts. It will provide insight into…

This video gives a brief overview of the newest runtime editing tools available in with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and the newest Visual Studio preview. The In-App runtime tools streamline the UI…

IT’s biggest challenge is how to manage access to work data for a mobile workforce, where phones and laptops with sensitive data are lost or recycled, employees switch companies, and data lands on…

Watch this session to see what you can do with Logic Apps, our cloud-scale workflow engine that enables you to connect SaaS applications to data sources to social media to your own API Apps and more!…

Device control and diagnostics from the convenience of your browser. Windows Device Portal will be included on all Windows 10 devices, coming in the April Tech Preview. From Device Portal, UWP…

Take a look at the Bluetooth classic communication paradigm that Windows 10 has to offer. With the latest APIs released just in time for //Build 2016, you'll see that devices don't always have to be…

3D printing is now universal across Windows devices including Desktop, Tablet, phone, and HoloLens. In this talk you will learn about the various app and game scenarios that are enabled by 3D…

Most likely you have seen product recommendations in some of your favorite ecommerce sites. These are often presented as "Frequently Bought Together" recommendations which show products that…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Hosted Web Apps on Windows 10 can do more than ever before but that isn’t always clear. People often times have thoughts and questions similar to these: “can I call native APIs form JS on the web?”,…

Learn how to reach the millions of users of Bing, Cortana, Outlook, and more by enabling app deep linking using standards-based markup & protocols.

Recorded session will cover the Windows App Studio NuGet packages for Windows 10 controls (~2 min) and will show how easy it is to implement into any Windows 10 solution in visual studio (~3 min).

Recorded session will cover the features and templates in Windows App Studio for small businesses and explain how the foundation of a great app can be created in under and hour (4 min). The session…

Device Guard provides a way to lock down systems so that they only run trusted applications. Security conscious organizations are deploying Device Guard across increasing numbers of machines, so it is…

As Microsoft moves towards a Windows as a Service model, application development cycles will need to evolve to cater to the faster release cadence. This session will explain how to decouple the…

Check out all the new March 2016 updates in Azure tools for cloud developers deploying and diagnosing distributed applications and services. You will see updates to the Azure tools for Visual Studio…

In this demo-driven session, learn by example about the tools available for seamless data integration in the cloud with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics, SQL…

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a diverse set of networking APIs to enable developers to implement a wide range of scenarios. For many networking scenarios, there are multiple options…

Consumer identities are at the core of every consumer-facing application. Developers who manage them are facing growing challenges around cost, scalability and security. In this session, you will…

Recorded session will cover a walkthrough of converting a web app into a Windows Hosted Web App (~2:30min) and will mention how to extend in vs to add more advanced functionality (2 min).

Windows introduced support for Beacons at //Build 2015. Now, we explore some common use cases for Beacons and how they tie in with the rest of the Bluetooth APIs.

Don't leave your device without a companion! Ease user frustration and market yourselves to potential customers by delivering a performant app experience on Windows 10. With the new Bluetooth in app…

Azure Batch enables large-scale parallel and compute-intensive workloads to be easily and efficiently run in the Azure; execute your new or existing applications on tens to tens of thousands of VM’s. …

Great apps run on any device and connect to the cloud. Learn how Azure App Service helps build great connected mobile experiences, including single sign-on, push notifications, offline data sync, and…

By leveraging the same local search technology as Cortana, File Explorer, Edge, and others, apps can help users find the data they need when they need it. This talk will cover: - How Edge stores and…

Learn to enhance the user experience of your app and unleash your creativity with the new exciting element of interactivity linked to the powerful functionality of the animation engine in the visual…

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a scale out database service designed to answer your ad hoc queries and questions. By spreading your data across distributions SQL Data Warehouse is designed for analytics…

Running Bash on Ubuntu on Windows? Really? Yes, REALLY! In this video we’ll outline why and how we’re enabling Windows 10 to run native Linux apps and tools directly on Windows! Watch to learn more…

As a SaaS developer with hundreds, or even thousands of databases, elastic database jobs simplifies management through reliable execution of T-SQL scripts across a group of databases. Learn how you…

Context of Network Security when you build applications on cloud; How can you monitor your network and gain additional insights

Skype for Business enables developers to enhance the capabilities of their applications and ecosystems. Come see some real-world examples of integration scenarios that may spark your imagination!

Real-time placeholder, due on 3/15 EOD

With Azure Data Lake we’re introducing a new SQL-based language called U-SQL, that combines the familiarity of SQL with C# extensions to make Big Data processing easy, and fun. In this presentation…

If you build Web APIs, internal or external, API Management is all about saving you time and money. It can make APIs easier to discover, easier to use, better controlled, perform better and more…

See how you can use Azure Logic Apps to automate business process that integrate with services in the cloud without using code. This session will introduce Logic App capabilities including its…

MicroServices are on everyone's mind, come learn from the Service Fabric team why 25min is enough to get you excited on what we have to offer for your productivity

Azure functions is a new PaaS service which allows you to write "functions," short pieces of code in the language of your choosing which respond to and process events. In this session, we’ll…

Azure Marketplace is the place where Azure customers and partners meet. Come learn why use the marketplace and how to deploy and manage single and multi-tier solutions. As an existing or potential…

In this session, we’ll talk about how ARM helps you author, deploy, monitor, and manage modern applications in the cloud. In parallel, we’ll discuss how features such as auditing, role based access…

Azure CDN offers developers a new CDN object model, APIs, and multiple SDKs to help you build global applications with massive scale, high performance and security. We will quickly walk you through…

Includes how Halo, Xbox Live Events & Office use Event Hubs for large scale telemetry

Visualizing data in applications is a powerful communications tool. Learn how to do this easily with Power BI

In this theatre session, we’ll be demoing key scenarios leveraging information management, big data and advanced analytics capabilities in industries such as retail, healthcare, or manufacturing.

Modern businesses need to answer questions quickly. We’ll explore how you can deliver a powerful data warehouse solution to answer these questions.

In this session Hari and James will go deeper into MyDriving IOT Starter Kit featured during the ScottGu keynote. Learn how we designed the architecture around this app, the patterns we used and how…

This talk will cover tips & demos to make you more productive diagnosing issues in Edge, specifically looking at: working with CSS (changes, editing & diffing), pro tips for making JavaScript…

You probably already code in C# or JavaScript, but how do you deal with problems that don’t fit these languages? Come find out how Python can fill that gap.

Come learn how pairing HockeyApp with Xamarin can provide a consistent mobile DevOps solution across all mobile app platforms. HockeyApp provides a comprehensive beta distribution platform, rich crash…

Building cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase was once just a dream. With Xamarin.Forms, this dream is now a reality. Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms…

Diagnostics or usage analysis of any application is never straight forward. The current tools available for developers and dev teams are very limiting. With Application Insights Analytics, we allow…

There’s more to .NET Core than just C#. F# is a functional-first .NET language that can help you write better software with less code. In this session, you'll learn how to get started with F# on .NET…

NuGet is a free and open-source package manager from Microsoft. Many people think of NuGet as only a public repository of packages, but that’s not true. You can use NuGet as your company’s private…

Visual Studio vNext has some great XAML tooling and we'll dive deeper to show you what's new!

React Native is a compelling platform for building cross-platform mobile apps, and like other JavaScript-based solutions, can take advantage of the ability to perform “hot code pushes” of your code…

In this session, we'll highlight recent updates to the latest Microsoft Band SDK, and how to use them to use the UWP background execution model to create interactive experiences on the Microsoft Band.

Watch how a Universal Windows Platform app can use a combination of Bluetooth and sensor APIs to teach a robot how to respond to contextual changes in the world around it.

See how to identify and overcome more advanced challenges when making data-bound apps more accessible.

We'll look at practical design considerations and best practices that developers should take into account when optimizing their app experience for the Xbox One platform. We'll demonstrate real-world…

The Windows Store is more than just a consumer app store. Join the Store team and TeamViewer as we discuss how the Windows Store for Business can help you reach new users in the SMB and prosumer space.

Designing for the Surface Hub means more than just a large canvas. We'll talk about the challenges and benefits of building a productive Surface Hub experience.

Kick back and watch as we show off cool website code that you may not have thought was possible -- from an immersive game using WebGL to using biometric authentication on your website using Windows…

Check out a web-based app using a Raspberry Pi and camera to create a mirror that readies the owner to take on their day. In this session, we'll talk about how hosted web apps provide a new way of…

You may have known that Office UI Fabric is the official skin for Office Add-ins, but did you know that it’s also used by a myriad of teams within Office and Office 365? How about that there are…

A demo of the UWP tile and icon generator. Learn how to use Photoshop to generate the 68 recommended image assets for displaying different screen sizes. Ensure your app’s icons look great, and update…

Wearables are becoming more and more prevalent in our worlds, bringing technology to our fingertips through constant connectivity and presence awareness. Wrist-worn wearables are at the leading edge…

Learn how to extend the capabilities of your applications with Skype for Business, including new capabilities for Skype for Business Online. We’ll explore the new online APIs, the web SDK, and give…

A quick overview of Azure Mobile Engagement - a newer SaaS service on Azure platform which enables app publishers and app owners to easily track usage behavior, create rich and dynamic segments and…

In the early goals of Angular 2, we focused on creating a full platform that encompasses even more of the needs of our developer community. Mobile is all the rage these of late, but the majority of…

MeetingSquared is a product that uses an Outlook and SharePoint add-ins to provide agenda lead meetings. The SharePoint add-in is used to manage agendas, votes, actions and documents for any type of…

Join us at Build 2016 as the top U.S. Imagine Cup awards are announced.

Building a shardless, real-time twitch MMO in the cloud requires new ways of thinking. In this session Illyriad Games will share practical insights from the development of Age of Ascent that can be…

In the last two years, Microsoft has surprised many by open sourcing major parts of the Microsoft platform, but we also contribute to projects started by others. Join custodians of the Apache Cordova…

Personal computing has evolved from operating systems to internet browsers being the runtime where users find and engage with applications and services. In the new world of AI, digital personal…

The MyDriving IOT Starter Kit is a canonical example of a highly scalable, performant, available and cross-platform IOT service and application. This application brings together our best Azure,…

Join this session to learn how easy it is to use the Microsoft Graph to build apps. In the first part we will show apps that access data from the consumer cloud and the commercial cloud using a single…

The Internet of Things in the home represents one of the next big things in tech, with increased consumer interest, low cost hardware, and wireless connectivity solutions contributing to an explosion…

Microsoft Azure will be offering state of the art GPU visualization infrastructure and GPU compute infrastructure for various different scenarios like gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning,…

There’s a perfect tool for every job and Microsoft’s mobile toolbox is BIG. Join mobile developers from Xamarin, Cordova, Unity and C++ in a candid conversation about the strengths and…

Making that first pull request to an open source project can be a scary and daunting thing, even for a seasoned developer. “What if people laugh at my code? What if I break something? What if I didn’t…

Adding intelligence to apps is not just for the largest, most global apps out there. Apps of any size can add intelligence. Hear senior leaders and experts across data, machine learning, and analytics…

In the Skype developer session you will hear about some new and innovative ways we are going to enhance messaging experiences today, and into the future. Microsoft believes that adding intelligence…

In this session, we’ll cover how you can use our intelligence APIs to build fresh, differentiated apps powered by advanced research from Microsoft.

Microsoft HoloLens was developed to transform the ways we communicate, create, collaborate, and explore. This talk will frame important questions about Mixed Reality and how you might begin to think…

Are you a .NET developer who always dreamed of writing video games? In this short and fun session, we’ll do exactly this. We’ll start a new project, and write a 3D game in C# with Visual Studio and…

Join us to hear from two of the principal architects of the Windows Insider Program for a candid conversation about the past, present, and future of the program. They will share some of the history,…

Join us Wednesday in The Hub during the lunch session for a special Women in Technology-focused set of activities. We will have a panel of women leaders, followed by a special networking event, and…

Join us Wednesday in The Hub during the lunch session for a special Women in Technology-focused set of activities. We will have a panel of women leaders, followed by a special networking event, and…

Conversations is the new platform for apps. By connecting apps like Trello, Twitter, Uservoice and more, Outlook keeps your team up to date with all the conversations and updates they care about in…

With Windows 10, your phone can work like your PC. Continuum for phone enables you to connect a Windows mobile device to any external display with the new Microsoft Display Dock, USB-C, or Miracast. …

There's a ton to learn on this topic! In addition to the announcement and live coverage we have a number of deep dives that really get into how the feature works at an operating system level:…

Kevin Gallo on Channel 9 Live answering Q&A from our viewers. Make sure to catch his Day 1 Keynote presentation.

Create great user experiences across devices and across apps. Get hands-on experience connecting your app to the cloud so users get a connected experience across all their devices, and add experiences…

Create great user experiences across devices and across apps. Get hands-on experience connecting your app to the cloud so users get a connected experience across all their devices, and add experiences…

Create great user experiences across devices and across apps. Get hands-on experience connecting your app to the cloud so users get a connected experience across all their devices, and add experiences…

Learn how to implement more personal ways for your C# UWP app to interact with the user. Add inking support, provide speech integration through Cortana and get an introduction to defining actions in…

Learn how to implement more personal ways for your C# UWP app to interact with the user. Add inking support, provide speech integration through Cortana and get an introduction to defining actions in…

Learn how to implement more personal ways for your C# UWP app to interact with the user. Add inking support, provide speech integration through Cortana and get an introduction to defining actions in…

Get hands-on with building a UI for a XAML and C# UWP app that looks great across all your user's devices. Implement an adaptive UI that scales and adapts across different screens, try it out on…

Get hands-on with building a UI for a XAML and C# UWP app that looks great across all your user's devices. Implement an adaptive UI that scales and adapts across different screens, try it out on…

Get hands-on with building a UI for a XAML and C# UWP app that looks great across all your user's devices. Implement an adaptive UI that scales and adapts across different screens, try it out on…

Learn how to create 2D games in Unity, the leading industry game engine. In this workshop you’ll learn coding for Unity, animations, platform builds, physics, and more as you experience building out a…

Learn how to create 2D games in Unity, the leading industry game engine. In this workshop you’ll learn coding for Unity, animations, platform builds, physics, and more as you experience building out a…

Learn how to create 2D games in Unity, the leading industry game engine. In this workshop you’ll learn coding for Unity, animations, platform builds, physics, and more as you experience building out a…

Day 2 Keynote of Build 2016 with Scott Guthrie, Qi Lu, Steve Guggenheimer and John Shewchuk. [00:01] Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + Enterprise, Kicks off Day Two of Build 2016…

Day 1 of Build 2016 Keynote featuring Satya Nadella, Terry Myerson, Kevin Gallo, Phil Spencer, Alex Kipman, Lili Cheng and others. [00:53] Satya Nadella Kicks off Build 2016[04:47] Microsoft…

There has never been a better time to be a .NET developer, you can now build Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, and Windows applications with .NET all in Open Source. This session with the Lesser Scotts will…

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new service built into Windows 10 enabling enterprises to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks on their networks. Windows…

Since Roslyn shipped last year we’ve been hard at work building on it to improve tooling, add new language features and enhance Roslyn itself. In this session Dustin and Mads will play with fire,…

You already have a web dev workflow and deploy your code to a backend of your choice. You are writing code across Mac OS, Windows or both. This session will cover how you can leverage your existing…

Come see the best new Visual Studio Code features that you didn't know existed, but won't be able to live without! We'll demo Power-User features, including debugging on-the-fly, intelliSense for your…

Extending Visual Studio with new capabilities is something that can make our lives easier and greatly improve our overall developer happiness on a daily basis. It can also be a challenge to learn…

Develop scalable and open source PaaS solutions on Azure. In this session we go through some of the latest innovations for open PaaS on Azure. Build an open PaaS infrastructure with VM Scale Sets,…

Do you have data to analyze? Do you want to create a predictive model? Do you want to do it quickly, interactively, and with cutting-edge visualizations? Do you want to leverage the work of the…

In the next version of Windows, you can build apps that work on Xbox using the same UWP technologies and Store submission procedures that you use for PC and phone. Come learn how to use familiar…

In 2015, Windows and Xbox shared how we were building the world's most accessible and powerful game development platform that spans across consoles, PC, tablets, phones, and more. Come join us in 2016…

TypeScript has seen enormous growth in the past year. Today, it is used to build several key frameworks like AngularJS, Ionic etc. Several large applications such as Visual Studio Code and Office Web…

Visual Studio 2015 provides the best in class C++ development experience whether you are targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, or IoT. With a good mix of demos and showcase for new…

Are you building a Universal Windows app? Come and see in action new Universal Windows development tools in Visual Studio. This session will demonstrate some of the latest and upcoming tools to build…

Build 'smart' into your apps with this new collection of intelligence and knowledge APIs from Microsoft Project Oxford and Bing. Executive Vice President, Dr. Harry Shum, the head of Microsoft's…

Learn about new features the Windows Store and Dev Center is adding to help developers. See the new types of items are being added to the Store. Learn how adding these items to the Store is easier…

During this session you will learn what spatial audio is, how to best author sounds for spatial audio , and how to add spatial audio to your app, game, or experience. We will go through a number of…

Windows Server 2016 is a radical transformation of the server application platform and developer experience. The Windows Server 2016 SDK targets a super lightweight platform enabling applications to…

Come learn about the building highly available, low latency applications using a microservices approach that can be deployed into Service Fabric clusters running in different environments including…

Come and learn how a quirky Microsoft designer (Lynnette Reed) and a somewhat eccentric Microsoft developer (Rob Cameron) collaborate to design and build a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app.…

Attend this foundational session on the Office Platform to learn how to use simple, open technologies to build powerful productivity solutions integrated with Office apps and services. We'll focus on…

Notifications are one of the primary ways you interact with your customers on Windows Platforms. In the next release of Windows 10, Action Center and toast notifications are evolving to help you get…

Node.js + Microsoft?! Yep, you heard us right. In this session, you’ll learn why Node.js is so exciting, why Microsoft cares, and – more importantly – what’s in it for you. Additionally, we’ll…

Join us on a demo-packed session! You will learn more about how HockeyApp, CodePush, and Visual Studio Team Services help you to deliver high-quality, modern apps for Android, iOS, and Windows.…

Microsoft identity technology has been powering consumers and business solutions for decades, anticipating and contributing to industry trends such as the move to the cloud. Come to this session to…

Come learn about our Microsoft Mapping and Location technologies (Web, XAML and REST APIs). Learn how to take advantage of the many functionalities used in the Windows Maps app in your own XAML- and…

The new Office Add-ins allow you to integrate your custom business solutions right inside Office, bringing productivity to the next level for hundreds of millions of users on every platform. In this…

With the power of Windows Ink you can now add the ability to ink in your apps to unleash the power of the pen. It provides solutions which are easy to enable inking, with only requires minimal…

In 2015, Microsoft launched its first new browser in 20 years: Microsoft Edge. After 8 months, it's on a great trajectory but we're just getting started. Join us to learn about the progress we've…

Mark will cover best practices, tips and lessons learned in Azure to help developers avoid making the same mistakes with their cloud-scale deployments using IaaS and PaaS. This will include a look…

In this session, you’ll hear advice and best practices for bringing your iOS apps to Windows 10, using the Windows bridge for iOS, an open-source project that allows you to use Objective-C code and…

Microsoft is all in on IoT. Come and learn the latest on both Azure and Windows offerings for IoT and where they are going. Microsoft has great offerings for both operating systems and cloud solutions…

With Windows 10 IoT Core we have made it so anyone can learn, build and productize Things – intelligent, connected devices with apps. From the most novice student to the experienced pro developers,…

Come to hear the future of Visual Studio. This session will illustrate how Visual Studio is evolving demo by demo. We’ll show you the latest capabilities to enable any developer to build any apps.…

Azure Functions introduces an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that builds on Azure’s market leading PaaS platform. Come and experience how Azure Functions extends the existing WebJobs…

Applications show intelligence when they can spot trends, react to unusual events, predict outcomes or recommend choices. Learn how to introduce intelligence traits into your apps including;…

Modern cloud applications provide new opportunities every day for greater insights into our customers, code and quality using the signals in the application’s exhaust. Using the data produced by users…

With Microsoft’s Cognitive Services, you can build smarter and more engaging experiences that bring the knowledge of the web right into the experience, while interacting with users in a natural way,…

All apps built for Microsoft HoloLens run on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). That also means that all UWP apps built for phone and desktop can work on HoloLens too. We call these 2D apps since…

The Universal App Platform provides developers with a real opportunity to create meaningful, familiar and tailored Apps that run across a wide set of device families. Windows 10 will provide many new…

Entity Framework (EF) is a popular data access technology for .NET applications. Entity Framework Core is a lightweight and extensible version of EF that brings new features, new platforms, and…

Windows 10 offers new solutions for building, selling and deploying apps to organizations. The Windows Store for Business enables apps to be acquired in bulk and the ability to publish LOB apps to…

Windows 10 is seeing great momentum in the enterprise. What does it mean for you as either an IT Professional or Enterprise Developer? Rob Lefferts will look at the things you should know about…

If you could have a super power what would it be? Wouldn’t it be nice to predict the future? In this session we will show you how you can harness the power of Machine Learning! Learn about the Azure…

Join us for a deeper look at the latest developer opportunities from Office 365, Outlook, and Skype and how we are enhancing messaging and real-time experiences to help users get more done. With this…

In 2015, just a couple of weeks before the 20th anniversary of Internet Explorer 1.0, we broke from the past with our brand new browser for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge. Just five months later, there…

DevOps represents a transformational shift in the way the software industry produces and delivers software. While the benefits are many, the road to DevOps for an established organization can be a…

Take a guided tour of Visual Studio Team Services & Team Foundation Server with Jeremy Epling and Donovan Brown. During this session we'll show you the products & services that will shape your…

All you ever wanted to know about how to connect IoT devices to Azure and make the most out of all the data coming from sensors leveraging smart data analytics, machine learning and other Azure…

Learn what is hybrid, why it matters and how to develop and operate apps across Microsoft clouds.

Jonathan Wiedemann, Design Director for the Windows Devices Group, will share how Microsoft’s design language has transformed over the years to support a wide range of devices and inputs that will…

Microsoft Azure offers the best cloud platform, designed for developers to build the most innovative apps. It offers many different options for app development in the cloud. You can choose to control…

What does a #1 app on the iTunes App Store and an installment of one of the most successful gaming franchises in history have in common? They both use Azure DocumentDB to ingest massive volumes of…

Learn about how Dev Center helps you reach customers on all Windows devices including Xbox. Discover new ways to engage your customers with bundles, add-ons, and pre-orders. Simplify your development…

In this world of constantly evolving apps and continuous deployments, knowing what is happening with your app can make or break your customer experience. You want to proactively detect issues as they…

In this session you will learn about Azure Machine Learning through a comprehensive end-to-end example that he builds during the session and that encompasses: •Problem detection •Algorithm selection…

Xamarin and Microsoft empower .NET developers to become native iOS, Android, and Windows mobile app developers overnight. Apps built with Xamarin deliver truly native user experiences, 100% native API…

Six years ago, PhoneGap (a.k.a. Apache Cordova) burst onto the scene with tremendous fanfare. It promised near-total code sharing across iOS, Android, and Windows using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.…

Cortana is evolving from reminding users about things to helping them get things done. Cortana can now proactively surface your app to users in the right context, and provide your app with relevant…

Driving user engagement with your app is important. However, users jump between apps, devices, and different OS platforms throughout their day. This makes retaining users a tough problem to solve.…

With Windows 10, your phone can work like your PC. Continuum for phone enables you to connect a Windows mobile device to any external display with the new Microsoft Display Dock, USB-C, or Miracast.…

Driving user engagement with your app is important. However, users jump between apps, devices, and different OS platforms throughout their day. This makes retaining users a tough problem to solve…

The difference between a user who walks away and one who gives you 5 Stars can often come down to the details of their experience. A beautiful experience that has playful choreographed motions and…

Enabling existing desktop applications (Win32, .NET, etc.) to become part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) ecosystem is a key part of the Windows 10 vision. This session will cover in detail…

Come and learn about how applications can leverage the hyper scale, software defined network infrastructure that Azure offers. This session covers the breadth of Network APIs with best practices,…

The AzureCAT team works with the largest projects across the world being built on the Azure platform. This session will share the learnings and provide guidance based on those experiences.

Applications that are powered by intelligent data processing systems can be more engaging to their users and deliver new insights and value to the organizations that build them. Cortana Intelligence…

You can run any type of app at any kind of scale on Microsoft Azure cloud. While the Cloud is endless, in order to truly have a hyper-scale application, you need to be aware of few little details. In…

If you are a .NET or C++ developer, the next release of Visual Studio brings significant improvements for building Desktop apps. From XAML authoring and debugging all the way to helping get…

Corey will walk through many of the ways to build applications using Virtual Machines on Azure. He will talk about building apps using Dev/Test lab and VSTS. He will also cover deploying apps on the…

Everyone loves a Docker Container. Many people love two, or three or maybe even four. However, many need guidance on how to navigate building once we start to build real world applications using…

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides everything you need to build and connect your bots to your users wherever they converse – from SMS to Office365 mail to Slack and more… It’s your bot, wherever…

Join this session to learn how easy it is to use the Microsoft Graph to build people and group centric applications that use the latest APIs from Azure AD, OneDrive, Outlook, OneNote and more, all…

Visual Studio is a powerful, feature rich IDE. Come to this demo heavy session to learn about our favorite tips and tricks to improve your productivity AND get a sneak peek at some of our favorite new…

Having the best idea for an app is only half the battle. Ensuring your app has an engaging and beautiful experience that is playful and entices users to evoke emotion when using it is critical to…

You spoke and we listened! The application lifecycle is getting upgrades to cover the scenarios you care about most. In this session we will cover the basics and best practices of the app execution…

Azure Storage Block Blobs is the object storage platform for all of Azure and currently stores trillions of objects with millions of transactions per second. Nearly all Microsoft services including…

IoT is the next revolution in computing and an incredibly exciting space. A critical part of IoT is cloud based solutions that enable you to connect, secure and manage IoT devices as well as providing…

Microsoft offers SQL Server and Azure SQL Database to help you develop great relational database applications. In this session you will learn about the top developer features coming in SQL Server 2016…

Azure Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake are two new services designed to work with all of your data no matter how big or complex. With two strong options to store, process and analyze large volumes…

ASP.NET Core is a completely new web framework for building modern cloud-based web applications. In this presentation learn all about ASP.NET Core and including the latest features and innovations in…

It's a whole new world: support for Linux in Azure and cross-platform support for the next version of ASP.NET. This session will demonstrate a variety of options and techniques to deploy ASP.NET Core…

Come join Scott Hanselman and let’s learn about the groundbreaking changes in ASP.NET. For the first time ever ASP.NET is supported on Windows, Mac and Linux with a fully cross-platform ASP.NET Core.…

The UWP App Model encompasses the way that apps are packaged and installed, how they store data and state, their background process and multitasking capabilities, their run/suspend/resume lifecycle,…

App Extensibility enables you to enhance your app by leveraging the great work of other developers. In this session, we will walk through some unique ways of adding inter-app communication, including…

When it comes to monetization, your success, is our success. Literally. In this session we’ll introduce you to several new ways you can use Windows Dev Center to attract new customers and unlock the…

Every software developer has the need to debug problems in code, but we are rarely taught how to use the debugging tools available to us. Come to this demo-driven session where we’ll learn how to…

R is the lingua franca of Analytics. SQL is the world’s most popular database language. What magic can you make happen by combining the power of R and SQL for Data Science and Advanced Analytics?…

Bring stunning and interactive Power BI data experience to your applications. Learn how to integrate to Power BI using the Power BI REST APIs and how to build your own custom visualizations.

Notifications are an essential tool for engaging with your customers on Windows. We are building on the foundation of Action Center to give developers greatly increased flexibility in Adaptive Toasts.…

The cloud has a lot going on, and open source plays a key role when it comes to cloud innovation. From unikernels to aPaaS, and from DevOps to managed services, open is where things are happening.…

The cloud has a lot going on, and open source plays a key role when it comes to cloud innovation. From unikernels to aPaaS, and from DevOps to managed services, open is where things are happening.…