Its been a long past few weeks, with the announcement of Windows 8 and the Windows Runtime and the preparation for my presentation at the NYC Code Camp 2011.2. We had a really good turn-out, and I’d like to thank everyone who came to learn about the Windows Runtime. I started by off showing a bit from Build and Metro style apps. Then we went into an extensive overview of the Windows Runtime. For the coding demo portion of the presentation I started with a Silverlight application an converted it to a C# Metro style app with a C++ component. Then as the grand finale I ported the Silverlight C# ViewModels into new HTML/CSS and JavaScript Metro style app. All of the code has been uploaded to GitHub and the links can be found below.

Downloads/Code

• IntroToWinRT.pptx (4.79 MB)
• IntroToWinRT GitHub Repository

There were a number of resources discussed in our meeting and for convenience you can see find them here.

Resource Videos

• PLAT-874T – Lap around the Windows Runtime
• PLAT-875T – Windows Runtime internals: understanding “Hello World“
• TOOL-531T – Using WinRT with C#
• TOOL-533T – Using WinRT with JS
• TOOL-532T – Using WinRT with C++
• TOOL-930C – A .NET developer’s view of Windows 8 app development

Resources

• Windows Dev Center
• Windows Runtime Forum