In early December 2014, I delivered a presentation at DC ALT.NET titled “Cloudy with a Dash of Universal Apps”. I started with an intro to Universal Apps for the Windows family of platforms, and then walked through a live example of Azure Mobile Services to tie in multiple apps across devices .

You can download the presentation material and try out the steps yourself:

• PPTX file: ms-CloudUniversal-ShahedChowdhuri-DC-ALT-NET-20141209.pptx
• Hub App Demo: MyHubApp.zip
• Shared Ref Demo: UnivAppWithSharedRef.zip

Next Steps:

• Samples on MSDN:
  • http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Universal-Windows-app-cb3248c3
• MVA:
  • http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/developing-universal-windows-apps-with-c-and-xaml
• Wintellect
  • Blog Post: http://www.wintellect.com/blogs/jprosise/building-universal-apps-with-visual-studio-2013-update-2

Enjoy! 🙂