If your just getting started developing your first Windows 8.1 application or if you are already a pro this recent session I gave down in New Zealand is worth a watch. I pulled it together when I was starting to feel a little bored of slide heavy presentations so instead I took a hands on approach and limited the deck to about 8 slides and spent the majority of the hour in Visual Studio. It was a fun session and I covered a lot of common scenarios you will encounter when building connected Windows 8.1 apps with Mobile Services including:

• Getting started with an Azure Mobile Service backend
  • Creating your first mobile service
  • enabling Source control
  • npm install
• Building Geospatial apps – how to implement
  • Where am I
  • Save a point of interest to your backend
  • Perform radial search of points of interest nearby
• Auth – how to secure your applications
• Media – how to implement
  • Media capture on the device
  • Securely uploading your media to Windows Azure Blob Storage using a Shared Access Signature
• Notifications and Live Tiles – how to implement
  • Discussion on Push notifications verse Periodic notifications and when to choose which
  • Implement Push Notifications with the new Push Wizard in the VS 2013 tooling for Mobile Services
  • Implement Periodic notifications with Custom API

I hope you enjoy the session as much as I did, enjoy! nick

You can also watch it on Channel 9