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Tue Nov 30th 2010 at 5:00pm |
Windows Phone 7 Developer Briefing |
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Thu Dec 2nd 2010 at 11:45am |
Silverlight Firestarter (with roadmap announcement) |
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Thu Dec 2nd 2010 at 8:30am or 5:00pm |
Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7! Community Tour |
You can stay for the Windows 7 and Silverlight events on Dec 2nd at the same venue!!
Details below…
Tue Nov 30th 2010 – Windows Phone 7 Developer Briefing
Get Your App in Gear – Register today and join us at the Windows Phone 7 Developer Briefing
Join us for an informative Windows Phone 7 Briefing to learn more about developing on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform. The briefing will cover the two application frameworks available for Windows Phone 7, where to find developer resources, how to submit apps into Marketplace, and much more!
Register here:
Ottawa, On – November 30, 2010 at 5pm
AGENDA
Registration
5:00pm
Start
6:00pm
Introduction
Apps with Silverlight
Break/Q&A
Games with XNA
Next Steps/Q&A
End
9:00pm
Apps with Silverlight
Silverlight provides standard user controls and an event-driven model suited to building apps that bring information to the user. In this session, you’ll see an app or two built right in front of you, and learn about many aspects of Silverlight development for Windows Phone, including controls, laying them out, the model-view-viewmodel pattern, resources, themes, data binding and data templates, making asynchronous web requests, LINQ to XML and more.
Games with XNA
XNA is a game loop-based framework that makes it easier to build 2-D and 3-D games where gameplay, graphics and sound are key. You’ll watch the construction of a 2-D game and in the process learn about XNA’s game loop, resources, screen management, sprites, getting input from the accelerometer and touchscreen, collision detection, making use of game code libraries and other aspects of game development with XNA.
Next Steps
You’ve now had a taste of developing for Windows Phone with both Silverlight and XNA. What now? At this session we’ll cover where to get the tools and hardware, where to find additional developer resources such as tutorials, books and communities, how to register with the App Hub, how to submit an app to Marketplace and even talk about ideas for new apps.
Thu Dec 2nd 2010 at 12pm – Silverlight Firestarter (with roadmap announcement)
Come to the Microsoft Ottawa office on Dec 2nd 2010 @ 11:45 am ET sharp to watch the future of Silverlight unfold.
On Dec 2nd 2010, Microsoft is running the all-day Firestarter event about Silverlight. It opens with a keynote from Scott Guthrie (Corporate VP of the Developer Division) on the Future of Silverlight and features various sessions from renowned speakers. It’s like another day of PDC just for Silverlight.
We’ll be watching and discussing the morning portion of the live event as a group. Colin Melia (Microsoft MVP for Silverlight), will be there along with Microsoft’s Christian Beauclair to discuss the event and answer questions.
Silverlight is THE developer platform for rapidly building and deploying UI- and media-rich data-connected business and consumer applications for the web, the desktop and the phone. It’s available today. Microsoft has invested and will continue to invest in Silverlight, and in products that use it including LightSwitch, Lync, Windows InTune, the new Azure Portal, etc.
No registration is required.
100 Queen Street (the World Exchange Plaza – with underground parking)
Suite 500 (5th floor)
Ottawa, ON
K1P 1J9
AGENDA
Welcome
11:45am
Live Broadcast start
12:00pm
End – continue watching at home
4:45pm
What is the Silverlight Firestarter?
· An Event. A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie.
· Training. New self-paced labs and walk through videos.
· Interactive. Watch live and ask the Silverlight product team and local experts questions during the event.
· Why Silverlight? Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline.
Full streaming event details – http://www.silverlight.net/news/events/firestarter/
Thu Dec 2nd 2010 – Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7! Community Tour
Windows® 7 represents an amazing opportunity for application developers. Since shipping just one year ago, more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. (That’s roughly seven copies of Windows 7 sold every second!). Windows 7 is also an amazing platform. Through integrated capabilities through the Windows Taskbar, sensors, text, and speech, it blends the best technology, innovation, and creativity to empower developers to create awesome apps.
Join Kate Gregory or Richard Campbell in five cities in Canada for the Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7 tour. Come hear how you can start taking advantage of the capabilities of Windows 7 in your new/existing applications TODAY. (Registration is free).
Register here:
Ottawa, On – Dec 2nd 2010 at 8:30am.
Ottawa, On – Dec 2nd 2010 at 5:00pm.
AGENDA
Registration *
8:30am/5:00pm
Start
9:00am/5:30pm
A Lap Around the Windows® API Code Pack
Building Touch-First Applications with Windows® 7
Q&A
End
11:30am/8:00pm
A Lap around the Windows® API Code Pack
The Windows API Code Pack for the .NET Framework is a managed library for building applications that light up on Windows 7. It provides access to new user interface features (taskbar jump lists, libraries, sensor platform and more) as well as "behind the scenes" features that make your applications more aware and responsive (restart and recovery, power management and more). This is a must-have library for developers targeting Windows 7 with managed code. In this session, you’ll learn how to quickly incorporate the Windows API Code Pack into your applications to take advantage of features in Windows 7.
Building Touch-First Applications for Windows® 7
In Windows 7, innovative touch and gesture support enable a rich and natural interaction with applications. Are your applications ready to support this new wave of PC form factors? Are they finger-friendly to support interactions and gestures on Windows 7? This session highlights the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explains how you can leverage them in your applications.
Got questions about this event? Email John Bristowe (Sr. Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Canada) – john.bristowe@microsoft.com / @jbristowe / blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs
*Light refreshments and snacks will be available
