Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Boot Camp
Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp
Microsoft Canada & MEIC are pleased to present our first Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Boot Camp. This free session has been designed to provide developers, designers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts some real life experiences on developing for WP7.
Join us on August 15, 2011 from 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the auditorium at OCAD University (100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON)
AGENDA:
12:30-1:00 PM Registration
1:00-1:15 PM Welcome
1:15-2:45 PM Session 1 – Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Recipes
2:45-3:00 PM Questions & Answers
3:00-3:15 PM Coffee Break / Networking
3:15-4:45 PM Session 2 – Windows Phone 7 XNA Kickstart
4:45-5:00 PM Questions & Answers
SESSIONS:
The WP7 Boot Camp features two sessions to help MEIC members to get started developing apps for WP7:
Session 1: Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Recipes
If you’re building Windows Phone apps to help organize your life, capture your ideas, find out what’s going on around you, stay in touch with friends or gather the information you need, chances are you’ll be building them using Silverlight. We’ll show you how to build Silverlight apps that fetch data from web services, get the phone’s current location, display maps, organize applications into panoramas and data into pivots, make use of input and sensors and more. With these recipes under your belt, you’ll be writing apps that make the best use of Windows Phone 7 features in no time!
Session 2: Windows Phone 7 XNA Kickstart
Haven’t you always wanted to write a videogame, but could never get started? If you’d like to start writing games – the most popular mobile app category – for Windows Phone 7, you’re in luck! Windows Phone is the only smartphone with its own official game development framework, XNA, which not only lets you develop games for the phone, but for Xbox and Windows as well! You’ll learn the basics of XNA, get your feet wet writing 2D videogames, and give you what you need to start you on your journey as a game developer.
PRESENTER:
Paul Laberge, Phone Evangelist for WP7
Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions.
Currently, Paul leads Microsoft’s developer engagement around Windows Phone 7 and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps.
Paul is also passionate about Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences. In other words, if you have a question about Microsoft’s leading edge platforms, Paul is someone you can talk to.