VENUE CHANGE: Please note that the venue for the May session will be at the Waterloo Public Library, 35 Albert Street in the James J Brown Auditorium.

Session Overview 
If you have used a Windows Phone, Windows 8, various Microsoft web sites or the new XBOX Dashboard then you’ve already been immersed in it but you may not realize what it is.  Microsoft’s new design language called Modern UI is fresh, bold and very distinct.  The Windows 8 and Windows Phone experience is driven through the Modern UI design language and as such Modern UI is of strategic importance to Microsoft.  In this session you will learn how Modern UI drives an immersive user experience, how Modern UI was created and what ultimately what it is and isn’t.

Speaker Bio

Paul is a Technical Evangelist with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 15 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for 6 years. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions.

Currently, Paul leads Microsoft's developer engagement around Windows Phone and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, speaking at events, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps. Paul is also passionate about Windows 8 and Windows Store apps, Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences.

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Thanks for attending last night's session on Test Driven Development and Unit Testing, presented by Andre King, Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp. The slide deck and source code can be downloaded from SkyDrive at: http://sdrv.ms/12nUiZp


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Thanks to our SWAG sponsors: Telerik, Mindscape, O'Reilly, Microsoft, and Pluralsight!

Thanks to all those that attended our March session, All About Data Persistence in Windows 8. Special thanks to Andrei Marukovich for coming out to speak to our group on this topic! Be sure to check out his blog at http://lunarfrog.com/blog and follow Andrei on Twitter at @amarukovich

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Special thanks to our March sponsor, Hays IT Canada!

And thanks to our SWAG sponsors: Microsoft, Telerik, Syncfusion, Mindscape, RedGate, campusMVP.net, Pluralsight, O'Reilly, Apress, and CODE magazine.