Free Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Event!

All Day (10 hours) of Hands on Programming

Location: Cal Poly Technology Park

Come check out the Windows Phone 7 Unleashed event for everything you need to know to develop for WP7. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or you’re just starting with .NET development, there’s something in it for you.  This is a 'Bring Your Own Laptop' event (see requirements below).  You must bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on labs.

The first half of this deep dive event is lecture and hands-on lab. At the half-way mark of the day, you’ll have a solid foundation for building WP7 applications. The second half 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!

FreeMarketPlace 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 Prizefor 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 setof 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.

Food and Drink (Water, Sodas) will be provided.

In order to deliver the best possible experience for attendees, seating at this event is VERY limited. Register now!

Session 1 – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Programing.

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 :

1)Application life cycle

2)Hardware Foundation

3)Files associated with project template

4)Splash screen and the importance of 1 second / 19 second loading

5)Application Bar

6)Panorama and Pivot controls

7)Red Threads

8)MVVM

9)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.

1)Navigation

2)Fragment Navigation

3)JSon Deserialization

4)JSon.Net

5)The Extras Menu

6)Live Tile

7)Push Notifications

8)Push Notification Helper Library

9)Shell Tile Scheduler

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).

1)Tombstoning

2)Tombstoning helper

3)Sensor overview

4)Location and GPS

5)Bing Maps

6)Accerometer

7)Phone Shake

8)Launchers and Choosers

9)Isolated Storage

NOTE: This is a 'Bring Your Own Laptop' event.  Please ensure that your laptop has all the required software installed before the event.

The required software is listed below:

• 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)
  • Developer Tools
  • Developer Tools Jan Update
  • Windows Phone Developer Tools Fix
  • All three can be found on that page
  • 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 (see instructions next line)
• Instructions on how to register for Bing Maps account http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wp7trainingcourse_usingbingmapslab_topic2

Optional But Suggested Downloads and Resources:

• VB SDK if you want to write your phone apps in VB.Net http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a808a69d-6119-47b7-b858-262be5c49915
  • (Visual Studio Professional or higher. Does not yet support VS Express for windows phone)
• Paint.Net (Its Free) (for working with images—if you don’t have Photoshop) http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
• Paint.Net PSD Plugin & Install instructions http://psdplugin.codeplex.com/
• Windows Azure Toolkit for WP7 http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/
• Application Certification Requirements http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9730558
• Windows Phone 7 Design Templates http://wp7designtemplates.codeplex.com/ (Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit above is needed for this)
• Article – Using the design templates http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/21-WP7-Toolkit-in-Depth-articles-covering-all-controls
• Silverlight & WP7 Exception Handling and Logging Building Block http://silverlightlogging.codeplex.com/
• Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/
• WP7 Tombstone Helper http://tombstonehelper.codeplex.com/
• Push Notification Server Side Helper http://create.msdn.com/en-us/education/catalog/article/pnhelp-wp7
• WP7 Databases
  • WinPhone7DB http://winphone7db.codeplex.com/
  • Wp7Sqllite http://wp7sqlite.codeplex.com/
  • JubbaDB http://blog.clauskonrad.net/2010/10/how-to-database-for-wp7.html
  • EffiProzDB_WP http://www.effiproz.com/product_wp.aspx
• Isolated Storage Explorer http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/
• WP7 Dropbox http://wp7dropbox.codeplex.com/
• JSon Viewer to see and read long Json http://jsonviewer.codeplex.com/
• Creating Custom Pushpins for Bing Maps http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wp7trainingcourse_usingbingmapslab_topic3
• RestSharp http://lukencode.com/2010/08/04/rest-web-services-in-windows-phone-7/
• JSON.Net http://json.codeplex.com/