Log in to like this post! Friends Group Presentation: Essential WinRT and Windows Phone 8 Development Event Recap [Infragistics] Mihail Mateev / Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Infragistics Friends group with the help of Infragistics Inc. organized a presentation about how Essential WinRT and Windows Phone 8 Development. The event was held on Thursday, December 13th at Infragistics Bulgaria Office, 110B, Simeonovsko Shosse Bul., Sofia, Bulgaria. I was honored to be a speaker at this interesting presentation. Windows 8 provides a new runtime environment, WinRT, for developing full-screen Metro applications that work on the ARM and x86 platforms. In this presentation was described how to build fast and fluid touch-enabled Windows Phone 8 applications. The lecture provides coverage of .Net and WinRT development using C# and XAML for Windows Phone 8 application. It was mentioned what is important to start with C++ apps and also how to create "hybrid" WP applications. Participants received useful information about application development models and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 new features. Before the presentation. Ho to localize Windows Phone 8 application Presentation slides and examples of "Essential WinRT and Windows Phone 8 Development" can be found here: Follow news from Infragistics for more information about new Infragistics events. As always, you can follow us on Twitter @mihailmateev and @Infragistics and stay in touch on Facebook, Google+and LinkedIn!