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Author news: What would YOU like to see presented at //build this year?

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Hello, Kraig Brockschmidt here. I’ve been busily working on wrapping up the second edition of Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the second preview of which we made available last fall. It’s been a joy to explore and share with you all the new features of Windows 8.1!

Let me also say a big “thank you” to all of you for making this one of the most successful books that Microsoft Press has released recently. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the download numbers, and also seeing it keep a top-ranked spot in Amazon’s free eBooks for Kindle.

As many of you know already, I’ve been continuing to post new content and insights on my blog, https://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/blog, including material from the second edition book. Some examples include Custom Layouts in the WinJS Listview Control, a three-part series on Multiple Views For Windows 8.1 Apps, Special Syntax for data-win-options Strings with WinJS Controls, and much more. Take a look if you haven’t been there recently, and let me know if there are topics you’d love to see.

Speaking of which, you’re probably aware that we’re set the dates for the //build 2014 conference, April 2-4 in San Francisco (see https://buildwindows.com). I bring this up because I’m part of the group that’s planning the content for Windows and Windows Phone, and in that capacity I’d like to ask you a question:

What would YOU like to see presented at //build this year?

Please share your thoughts in the comments to this post over the next two weeks as we hone in on the session list. I’d very much love your input!

Kraig

P.S. On a more personal note, did you know that I did a bunch of final editing on the first edition of my book on a movie set? That’s right, I’ve made it to the big screen! The award-winning movie Finding Happiness, which was released to DVD last fall and which is also making rounds in various theaters, is a documentary about the intentional community called Ananda where I happen to live with many friends and neighbors. In the film, Elizabeth Röhm plays a fictional journalist doing a story on the community, but besides that everything is genuine. Check it out, and you’ll see yours truly making a few appearances as an extra, including close-ups in the choir performance near the end!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2014
    I'd love to see some Desktop app/WPF/Net love at Build. Also would like to hear about Windows 8.1.1 (aka Update 1). And any plans about Update 2 or 8.2. Also while not Windows/Phone, would love to hear about .Net vNext (4.6? 5?), C#/VB vNext, Roslyn, M#. Also more on building Modern LOB apps for Windows 8.1+. And any plans on making Modern LOB app's easier to deploy (an Inside the Corp Firewall App Store?, one that's reasonable to setup and run.) That's enough for now... :)

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2014
    Great work! I 'ld love to see great change in accessing Azure using SCCM through windows phone, monitoring level will not be bad for IT professional, update 2 and robust compatibility for multi-vendor apps.

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2014
    Another vote for Desktop/WPF/.NET which seemed to be pretty much forgotten about at the last two //build conferences. There are still a lot of people working in offices on desktop machines running desktop LOB applications that don't have a need for or aren't geared toward becoming a Windows Store Apps. While I find the new app model interesting, it just isn't going to work for our math intensive structural engineering software which is using Fortran algorithms behind the scenes. Would also like to hear about any plans to merge Windows Phone and Windows Store development. I hope to be able to attend again this year...have learned a lot and been inspired at the last two.

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2014
    Enterprise ui strategy which has been neglected for far too long. TypeScript sessions. #love it Future of C# again has been absent.

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2014
    I want to see C# 6.0 and New features in XAML

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2014
    I'd like to see some improvements to the Windows 8 Store UI controls.

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2014
    Writing apps that can be published in the Office Store. It would be a great subject.

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2014
    +1 on LOB/WPF/.NET for the desktop.

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2014
    Outside of technical content I'd like to see a better schedule published well before the event.  With the live/24 hour event streaming, the value prop of the sessions goes WAY down, and the importance of the ability to network goes way up when justifying the non-trivial expense involved in these conferences.  Having the "secret squirrel schedule" where not even evening events are fully described ahead of time compromises vendors' abilities to pull together events that foster this exact networking.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2014
    Please rebuild developer trust by especially focusing on enterprise devs working currently with wpf/silverlight!!!