Windows Phone 7 Development

DON'T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF THE NEXT GENERATION MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.

Using Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight, tools you are already familiar with, you can build and deploy mobile applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace. DevConnections is offering an exciting new Windows Phone 7 track as part of our DevConnections conference.

Note: You must be a registered attendee of one of the DevConnections shows to have access to any of these exciting sessions.

Have you ever thought about developing a cool application for mobile phones that will make you some real money? Windows Phone 7 brings a new marketplace for developers working in Silverlight. If you know Silverlight, you already know how to build Windows Phone 7 applications. If you don't know Silverlight, now is the time to learn. This new platform will launch a wave of mobile applications that will empower consumers and enterprises to bring the desktop, web and mobile experiences together. And developers like YOU are at the center of this movement.

November 1-4, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV, DevConnections will bring together Microsoft and third-party experts to teach you what you need to know to get immediately productive and take advantage of this huge market opportunity. Attend the keynote by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore and get the insider's track on how developers like you will create applications to populate the Windows Phone Marketplace.

After the keynote, choose sessions presented by Microsoft and our third-party expert speakers in our Windows Phone 7 track to get you going in the right direction.
  • Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development
  • Building Integrated Mobile Applications with Windows Phone 7 Hardware and Services
  • Selling Your Mobile Apps on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
  • Windows Phone 7 Architecture Deep Dive
  • Converting an Existing Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7
  • Metro for Developers on Windows Phone 7
  • Adding Location Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Bing Maps
  • Device & Server: Networking & Notifications in Windows Phone 7 Applications
  • Building Casual Windows Phone 7 Games in Silverlight
  • Building Windows Phone 7 Games in 3D with XNA Game Studio 4.0
DEVCONNECTIONS ATTENDEES ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN UP FOR A ONE-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON WINDOWS PHONE 7 DEVELOPMENT WITH SHAWN WILDERMUTH FROM AGILITRAIN.

Writing apps for a phone was never so easy. If you've been tempted to write for the iPhone or the Android phone, you don't have to. With Silverlight you can build applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series as easy as you can build a web widget. When you're ready to dive into building applications for phones, this is the workshop for you.

Designing for the Phone
  • Metro Explained
  • Working with Screen Sizes
  • Integrating Touch
  • Why Panorama Applications Make Sense
  • Making sense of the Page Model
  • Understanding Connectivity
  • Understanding the App Lifecycle
  • Integrating with the AppStore
Silverlight on the Phone
  • Sizing Your Application
  • Intermittent Network Access
  • Memory Size Issues
  • Scaling to Phone Performance
  • Understanding the Input Model
Building for the Phone
  • Working with Phone Services
  • Orientation Changes
  • Geo-Location Integration
  • Contact List Access
  • Making Calls
  • Accessing the Accelerometer
  • Hardware Buttons
  • Working with the Notification Service
  • Creating Live Hub Icons
We'll sponsor a Windows Phone 7 app contest as part of the workshop. Details will be distributed at the workshop. Attendees of Shawn Wildermuth's "Building Apps with Windows Phone 7" workshop will receive:
  • A suite of Telerik Silverlight controls
  • Pre-Emptive's Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone 7
Bring your own laptop, get signed up to the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, and get started building your first Windows Phone 7 application with Shawn Wildermuth.
Every attendee at the workshop will have a Windows Phone 7 device to test with!
Laptop requirements: Windows XP SP2, Vista or 7 with minimum of 1.5 GB of memory. Software should be the entire WP7 Tools. http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started