Windows Phone Developer Workshop: Sydney Sept 24th and 25th, 2011
Windows Phone is a fresh exciting mobility platform and potentially a land of opportunity for killer apps! This hands-on centric developer workshop is designed to take your skills to the next level and help you explore more complex scenarios.
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This workshop is fully booked out, we’re rerunning in Sydney on Oct 8/9, head here for more details.
When
From: Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 09:00:00
To: Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 17:00:00
Where: Cliftons, 190-200 George Street, Sydney Location Details
Cost: Free
Workshop Style
The workshop will be predominantly hands-on with a short talk introducing each topic. You will also have the opportunity to review you own projects with a team of experts over the course of the workshop.
Subject to timing, topics covered will include:-
- Windows Phone Pivot and Panoramas
- Navigation and Controls
- Push Notifications
- Launchers and Choosers
- Application Lifecycle
- Bing Maps
- Multitasking
- Phone Capabilities
- Local Database with SQL SE
- Fast Application Switching
- XNA Games development
- Symbian/QT Development overview
Workshop setup
PCs will be provided per student configured with the developer tools.
If you wish to use your own laptop then it needs to be a developer class laptop with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1RC installed and the following hands on labs installed:-
- Windows Phone 7 Training Kit (WP7TrainingKitOffline_RTM1.Setup.exe)
- Windows Phone Mango Labs
Sponsorship
Lunches are sponsored by Nokia.
Speakers
- Brendan Forster (@shiftkey)
- Ducas Francis (@ducas)
- Luke Drumm
- Nick Randolph (@btroam)
Comments
- Anonymous
September 18, 2011
Hi Dave, Sydney workshop is on Sep 24th,25th OR October 8th, 9th?? It looks like copy/paste typo. Thanks, B