The first part of this deep dive
event is lecture and hands on lab. At the end of
that time, you’ll have a solid foundation for
building WP7 applications. The remainder of the
day is going straight to code!
Build the best app and
win a $500 (1st
place), $200 (2nd
place) or $100 (3rd
place) American Express gift card! Build your
app in a group (in a group, if your app wins, you will split
your winnings) or go solo! Start building your
app NOW; you don’t need to wait for the event to
start! You must be present to win!
Free
MarketPlace tokens for those putting their
application into the marketplace (a limited
supply of these, organizers of each event will
collect names and we will distribute)
Telerik is sponsoring a$5000.00
Grand Prize for the best application
over all of the WP7 Unleashed events that are
submitted to marketplace. The top 25
will be selected and then one of the top 25 will
be randomly picked for the prize (So get your
app into the marketplace after the event). They
are also giving EVERY attendee a free
set of their $99.00 WP7 Controls.
PDSA, Inc. is pleased to sponsor the WP7
Unleashed Events. They will be giving 2
lucky winners from each event a chance
to win four 1 hour long videos on Silverlight.
In addition 1 lucky person will win our
Haystack Code Generator for .NET at
each event that allows you to create the
business and data classes and the WCF services
that can be consumed by Windows Phone 7
applications!
O’Reilly will be giving away a free ebook to
every attendee (Many WP7 titles) and will also
donate a few books to raffle at each event.
Session 1 – Introduction
to Windows Phone 7 Programming
In this session, we start with a discussion of windows phone, the architecture changes made from 6.5 to 7.0, the hardware specifications and then move into the beginnings of building a WP7 application including :
- Application life cycle
- Hardware Foundation
- Files associated with project template
- Splash screen and the importance of 1 second / 19 second loading
- Application Bar
- Panorama and Pivot controls
- Red Threads
- MVVM
- Marketplace
Session 2 – Connecting to Services
In this session, we will discuss how Cloud Services help to bring power to the phone. We will be binding to a rest based services and show how to search and display the information received. In this session we will also talk about Navigation, passing information between screens, simple page animations while working with List and detail information.
- Navigation
- Fragment Navigation
- JSON Deserialization
- JSON.Net
- The Extras Menu
- Live Tile
- Push Notifications
- Push Notification Helper Library
- Shell Tile Scheduler
- Navigation
Session 3 – Recording Data
In this session we will be working with the Camera to capture and crop photos, record audio files, take notes, saving location, sharing (sending emails and SMS messages – and if time permits sending to twitter or FB) and saving everything using isolated storage. We will discuss tombstoning and how it effects your application process, including the when, where and whys of saving state).
- Tombstoning
- Tombstoning helper
- Sensor overview
- Location and GPS
- Bing Maps
- Accerometer
- Phone Shake
- Launchers and Choosers
- Isolated Storage
NOTE: Each attendee is required to bring a laptop loaded with the free software required for the labs.
The required software is:
 | Windows Vista or Windows 7 (WP7 tools will not run on XP or on a VM) |
Windows Phone 7 Developer tools http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started (All 3 below) All three will be found on that page:
| Developer Tools |
| Developer Tools Jan Update |
| Windows Phone Developer Tools Fix |
If you already have Visual Studio, the tools will be added to VS otherwise it will install the free phone tools.
| Direct Link to tools ISO instead of web installer http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201927 (If you use this make sure you go to the other page and install Jan update an dFix) | ||
| Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/60291 | ||
| Shake Gesture Library http://create.msdn.com/en-us/education/catalog/article/Recipe_Shake_Gesture_Library | ||
| Register at FanFeedr http://developer.fanfeedr.com/ | ||
| Register for MS Advertising and download SDK – we will show you how to add this to your apps in class http://advertising.microsoft.com/mobile-apps | ||
| Sign Up for a Bing
Maps account and key
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff428642.aspx
|
Optional But Suggested Downloads and Resources:
