Introduction

The Infragistics team was excited to support the Windows 8 effort as a Microsoft partner.  The conference took place on Microsoft’s Redmond campus from October 29 – November 2nd, 2012. 

 

Opening Keynote

The opening keynote was led by Steve Ballmer who outlined the Windows 8 developer opportunity.  Find the full recording here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/1-001.

 

Attendee Giveaway

Attendees received:

• Surface RT 32 GB
• Nokia Lumia 920 Phone
• 100GB of SkyDrive storage

 

Infragistics Demos

Build attendees flocked to the Infragistics booth to check out the beta version of our Windows 8 controls.

If you are interested in getting in on the Windows 8 action as a developer, please download the free beta version of our controls. You may also download the NetAdvantage for Windows UI reference app called Running Total. This application was written by my colleague Brent Schooley. It provides clear examples of our Chart and Map control usage.

 

Its always great meeting with Infragistics’ customers and hearing about their latest projects. 

 

Got to meet up with old developer buddies I’ve worked with like star coder Mike Tate from my days at Costco.

 

 

Conference Parties

What event would be complete without a few parties to kick back and talk shop with other developers? 

Deep Fried Bytes Build Party at Lucky Strike

 

Build Attendee Party

 

Old School Video Games

I strolled down memory lane, as I played games like Donkey Kong and Pitfall on the Atari 2600.  I was looking for a TRS-80, Commodore 64 and Apple II to complete my trip…