Windows 8 Developer Day and Night of Windows 8

Likely you already found out that recently Windows 8 preview got released showing off some of the new ways Windows 8 will work for you and your company. Microsoft Belgium jumps on the bandwagon and organizes a cool concept: study at day, hack and code at night.

You can follow during the day the following program:

8:08 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Opening keynote: Introducing Windows 8 Platform for Metro style app and principles Speaker: Giorgio Sardo 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Building Metro Style Apps with XAML and HTML: everything .NET and Web developers need to know 12:30 - 13:15? Lunch 13:30 - 15:00 Building Metro Style UI and integrating with Windows 8 Experiences 15:00 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 17:00 Bringing Your Apps to Life Closing with Windows Store & Developer opportunity 17:00 - 18:00 Closing drink

After that the hackaton starts:

18:00 - 18:30 Welcome and setup 18:30 - 23:00 Develop your app, code galore! 19:00 - 20:00 Pizza & Red Bull 23:00 - 24:00 Showcasing of apps, voting for the best apps Best app of the night prize! 24:00 Closing or stay up all night :)

So if you like to start being creative for Windows 8 and you’re in Belgium, you know where you want to be on March 23 2012.

Grz, Kris.