Cross-Platform Mobile Development -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Mobile clients are becoming a common vehicle to allow users' interaction with each other, their organizations, and their business applications. Mobile apps might be native client apps or mobile Web sites, and they often make use of cloud-based data and services. This track includes:

Using Xamarin tools to leverage your C# code on iOS and Android
Creating mobile Web apps with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile
Using Push Notification Services across mobile platforms

W02 Creating Data Driven Mobile Web Apps with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile Wednesday May 7 9:15am - 10:30am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

In this session you will learn what you need to get started writing data-driven mobile web applications in Visual Studio with ASP.NET MVC, as well as how to integrate jQuery Mobile into current ASP.NET applications. more

W06 Getting Started with Xamarin Wednesday May 7 10:45am - 12:00pm

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

This introductory session shows how easy it is to start working with Xamarin projects. more

W10 Building Multi-Platform Mobile Apps with Push Notifications Wednesday May 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

This session will discuss the various push notification services from Microsoft, Apple and Google, how to leverage them in your mobile applications, how to deal with push scenarios for any given multi-platform app, and also look at platform-specific notifications. more

TH12 Build and Publish a Windows 8 Game in 1 Day, even without Windows 8 Thursday May 8 11:00am - 12:15pm

David Giard, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn to use Construct2 to create a game. more