1. Susan Ibach| Technical Evangelist Christopher Harrison | Head Geek
04 | What’s new for app developers
Susan Ibach| Technical Evangelist
Christopher Harrison | Head Geek

2. Module Overview XAML Blend Azure Mobile Services JavaScript
Energy Consumption
Multilingual App Toolkit

3. New features for XAML developers
Intellisense
Code Snippets
Start and End Tag Refactoring
Go To Definition
Nested Comments

4. XAML editor improvements

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Related Resources
01: Exploring ASP.NET MVC 4
Visual Studio Team blog post on XAML Editor improvements in Visual Studio editor-improvements-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx
Pre-defined XAML code snippets

6. New features in Blend Rulers and Guides Device Panel Updates
CSS Animation Timeline
CSS Behaviors

7. New features in Blend

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Related Resources
01: Exploring ASP.NET MVC 4
Code Project blog “What’s new in Blend for Visual Studio 2013” Blend-for-Visual-Studio-2013
GoDevMental blog “How Blend made creating a Windows 8 app in 24 hours easy” blend-made-creating-a-windows-8-app-in-24-hours-easy.aspx
Windows 8.1 UX Design Guidelines us/library/windows/apps/bg aspx#one

9. Azure Mobile Services
Azure Mobile Services are not a new feature but the ability to create and add a mobile service from within Visual Studio is new!
For now, this feature only works for Windows 8.1 apps (not for Windows Phone apps). You can still use Mobile Services in Windows Phone apps, but you still have to use the Azure Management portal to create the services.

10. How can I get access to Windows Azure
01: Exploring ASP.NET MVC 4
Included in MSDN benefits
Start up companies may qualify for MSDN at no charge through BizSpark
Professors and Instructors can request credit-card free Azure passes for their courses through the Windows Azure Academic passes program
Anyone can get a free trial

11. Azure Mobile Services within Visual Studio 2013

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Related Resources
01: Exploring ASP.NET MVC 4
Azure Mobile Services SDK
Nuget Add-On for Visual Studio 2013 so you can install Azure Mobile Services SDK b21a8f5293ca
MSDN documentation us/library/windows/apps/dn aspx
Channel 9 Services-Tools-in-Visual-Studio-2013
Woot Studio blog system

13. New features for JavaScript developers
Highlight identifier
let Statement
const statement
Just My Code

14. New features for JavaScript developers

15. Related Resources
Windows 8.1 JavaScript code samples Modern-Style-App-Samples
“let” keyword us/library/vstudio/dn aspx
“const” keyword us/library/vstudio/dn aspx

16. Energy Consumption
When you build apps you are typically using a desktop or laptop.
It’s important to consider how your app will perform and consume resources on less powerful devices such as tablets
The new energy consumption feature allows you to determine how fast your app will drain the battery of a device.
Currently only available for Windows 8.1 app development

17. Energy Consumption

18. Related Resources
Visual Studio Team blog -consumption-tool-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx
Set up Remote Debugging on the Device
Debug and Test Windows Store apps on a remote machine from Visual Studio us/library/windows/apps/hh441469(v=vs.120).aspx
Diagnostics Tools for XAML Based Windows Store Apps

19. Multilingual App Kit
One of the great things about publishing an app to the store, is you can make it available around the world
Supporting multiple languages makes it more appealing to different markets
We have always been able to set up localized resource files for each language supported
The Multilingual app kit allows you to use Bing translation services to translate the contents of your resource files, so you only need to edit and proof read the translations

20. Related Resources
Multilingual App Toolkit
Windows Phone team blog “Localization made easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit” 0/24/inside-windows-phone-65-localization-made-easy-with- multilingual-app-toolkit.aspx
GoDevMental blog post “How do you add French to an English Phone app?” you-add-french-to-an-english-phone-app.aspx

21. Where can I get Visual Studio 2013
MSDN subscribers can download
Startup companies may qualify for MSDN through BizSpark
Students can access through Dreamspark
Anyone can download Express or Trial versions at
Visual Studio Online – free for up to 5 users