{"id":203,"date":"2014-05-05T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2014\/05\/05\/new-video-series-on-windows-store-app-development-using-visual-basic-on-microsoft-virtual-academy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:38:11","slug":"new-video-series-on-windows-store-app-development-using-visual-basic-on-microsoft-virtual-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/new-video-series-on-windows-store-app-development-using-visual-basic-on-microsoft-virtual-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"*New* video series on Windows Store App development using Visual Basic on Microsoft Virtual Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey VB hackers,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com\/\">Microsoft Virtual Academy<\/a> recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com\/training-courses\/creating-windows-store-apps-using-visual-basic\">six-part series<\/a> all about building modern apps for the Windows Store using your favorite language and staring Visual Basic MVP <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/burrows\/default.aspx\">Bill Burrows<\/a><\/strong> and yours truly \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com\/training-courses\/creating-windows-store-apps-using-visual-basic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/05\/1616.vbstoreapps1.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and greatest technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In this series we talk about some of the fundamentals of making applications which take full advantage of all Windows 8 and 8.1 have to offer to create &ldquo;fast and fluid&rdquo; experiences for your users as well as how to use <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/we86c8x2(v=vs.110).aspx\">new language features added to Visual Basic 2012<\/a> that make asynchronous programming for Windows easier than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&rsquo;t had a chance to check out Microsoft Virtual Academy or <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/apps\/hh974576\">Windows Store App<\/a> development, now&rsquo;s a great time to start!<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p><strong>-ADG<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey VB hackers, Microsoft Virtual Academy recently published a six-part series all about building modern apps for the Windows Store using your favorite language and staring Visual Basic MVP Bill Burrows and yours truly \ud83d\ude42 Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,195],"tags":[35,36,37,181],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-visual-basic","tag-anthony-d-green","tag-async","tag-asynchronous-programming","tag-windows-store"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Hey VB hackers, Microsoft Virtual Academy recently published a six-part series all about building modern apps for the Windows Store using your favorite language and staring Visual Basic MVP Bill Burrows and yours truly \ud83d\ude42 Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free service available to anyone to sharpen their skills and learn the latest and greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}