Links to videos for iOS app developers who also want to build great apps for Windows 8.
Videos
- Parallels: Using Visual Studio on OSX
This 7-minute video shows you how to use Parallels Desktop to run Windows and Microsoft Visual Studio on a Mac. Parallels Desktop is especially useful for running Visual Studio and Xcode side-by-side, and this video introduces some general strategies for sharing your code between these two development environments. For more info, see Using Parallels Desktop to install Windows and the dev tools on your Mac.
- Top tips for iOS devs building Windows Store apps
This one-hour video introduces iOS developers to building Windows Store apps for the first time, presented from an iOS developers' perspective. Topics covered include an overview of the business opportunity, how iOS APIs map to the Windows Runtime APIs, general Windows 8 UI and app design principles, and demonstrates writing simple code with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. This video is presented by Big Nerd Ranch, who are well-known experts in teaching iOS developers from around the world.
- Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers
This 14-part video collection features over 11 hours of in-depth info about how to build Windows Store apps, presented from an iOS developers' perspective. These videos introduce you to business opportunities for iOS developers, the Windows 8 UI and app design principles, and supporting app-development tools like Visual Studio and Blend for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8, followed by increasingly deeper dives into code. This video series also features content from Big Nerd Ranch.
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Build date: 3/5/2013
