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Posted on December 17, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Starting in March 2011, we’re rolling out a series of 12 Web Camps in the Central US. Microsoft’s Web Camps are events designed to teach you all about building websites using ASP.NET MVC, WebMatrix, OData and more. We’ve held Web Camps all around the world over the past few years, but we’re taking them to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 9, 2010 by Chris Koenig
A friend contacted me yesterday asking me how to enable some sort of side-to-side scrolling of images, similar to the way to that the Pictures Viewer works. He looked at taking a ListBox, turning it on its side and just scrolling sideways, but it didn’t give him the “feel” that he wanted. I thought it [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 1, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Windows Azure Boot Camp is a two day deep dive class to get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep, real world experience with Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. Agenda Intro to Cloud Computing and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 29, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I’m pleased to share with all of you an exciting announcement around a new (hopefully) annual technical event here in Dallas. On March 4 & 5, 2011, Dallas will host the first ever Dallas Day of Dot Net! DDDN is a 2-day conference featuring the top local technical talent as well as a special guest [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 15, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Keynote Starts December 2, 2010 at 9:00 pacific time Hear what’s coming next for Silverlight from Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Training, labs & swag Online or in-person at Microsoft HQ It’s just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight Agenda (link) Keynote : The Future of Silverlight Data Binding In Silverlight and Windows Phone [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2010 by Chris Koenig
During Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch events, I hosted a 1/2 day Hands-on-Lab where we walked through building a Windows Phone 7 application in Silverlight from the ground-up using Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010. I got lot of great comments about the session, and several requests for video recordings of the session so that [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 15, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications, Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7 applications. Using design patterns that embody important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 7, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Alfred Astort over at the Windows Phone 7 blog have just published a really nice list of the top 10 things you should think about before submitting your application to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Here’s the list: Start tiles and splash screens are your first impression… Make them great. Make sure your buttons are [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Yesterday at PDC10, Scott Guthrie demonstrated a Windows Phone 7 application that he was building using Silverlight. During this time, he mentioned that a new OData stack had been released for .NET which included an update to the library for Windows Phone 7. Now you might think that this was just a regular old upgrade [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Get started developing for Windows Phone 7 by downloading this free ebook from one of the world’s foremost authors, Charles Petzold. Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold
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