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9/18/2010 : Special Full Day MSDN Event - Windows Phone 7 Unleashed

8/28/2010 9:00:00 AM

Windows Phone 7 is HOT! Come check out Windows Phone 7 Unleashed 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.

The first half of this deep dive event is lecture and hands on lab. At the half point 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 have a chance to win a $500, $200 or $100 American Express gift card!

There will be Windows Phone 7 handsets at the event to test on.

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

Event Prerequisites:

This is a bring your own laptop event. You must have a PC that is able to connect to wireless internet.
Download these tools BEFORE the event.

Session 1 – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Programming.
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 :

Sensor overview
Application life cycle
Splash screen and the importance of 1/19 seconds loading
Files associated with project template
Application Bar
Live Tile
Application Icon

The session will end with a brief discussion of the Windows phone 7 Marketplace before the entering into the HOL.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:

Set-up
Live Tile
Splashscreen
Home Screen with Application Bar

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.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:

Search Screen
Display Screen
Detail Screen
Additional Application Bars

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.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:

Add New Wine
Record Audio
Picture Capture and Crop
My Wines

Session 4 – XNA on Windows Phone 7 with Sam Stokes
In this session you will learn game development on Windows Phone 7 using XNA

7/8/2010 : Windows Phone 7 Development - Mark Rosenberg

6/17/2010 6:30:00 PM

Windows Phone 7 is going to rock the mobile computing world very soon. Mark Rosenberg will walk us trhough the development of a Windows Phone 7 appication using Silverlight & XNA Framework on Visual Studio 2010.

6/3/2010 : Learn C# 4.0 & VB in VS 2010 from the Product Team

5/13/2010 6:30:00 PM

This is a special session where we have visitors from Redmond for two great presentations on the latest and greatest technologies. We will be combining forces with local User Groups like LA C#, OC.NET and several others.

Microsoft Product Team Members Chris Burrows and Jason Malinowski will be presenting the latest and greatest developer tools as well as guidance and best practices on how to put them to use.

Topic #1: Getting to Know C# 4.0
With the release of C# 4, the language gives the programmer the ability to more fluently interact with external data models using a few new features, including "dynamic" by way of the Dynamic Language Runtime. This brings the .NET programmer closer to Python and Ruby when they need it, and it gives them a better experience with COM interop and other dynamic data, such as XML. I'll discuss this and the rest of the new features and experiences you can expect with the release of C# 4 and Visual Studio 2010, with an emphasis on how they are designed and how they work.

Topic #2: A Tour of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 brings several enhancements to Visual Basic designed to let you write code faster than before. I’ll demonstrate how the new language features allow you to reduce the amount of code you write, and how you can consume the new Dynamic Language Runtime in VB. I’ll also show how new IDE features, like Highlight References and Navigate To, let you quickly move around in your projects and how Generate From Usage means you’ll never have to write a class declaration again!

5/13/2010 : WPF MVVM Made Easy

4/22/2010 6:30:00 PM

Are you struggling with how to use MVVM? Feel confused by all of the (overly complex) MVVM patterns and tools out there? If so, you are not alone. However, MVVM does not have to be hard. In fact, if you are willing to not take a purist approach, then MVVM becomes very easy to do. Some of the main goals of MVVM is to help you develop code that is testable and re-usable. In this seminar you will learn step-by-step how to get to MVVM quickly and easily.

You will Learn :

How MVVM will help you develop better applications
Step-By-Step approach to MVVM
A sample MVVM application

Take away :

Sample MVVM application that you can use as a model. You will also get some base classes that will help you develop MVVM applications.

4/8/2010 : Creating iPhone applications with C#, .NET and MonoTouch

3/18/2010 6:30:00 PM

Many .NET Developers have wanted to get into iPhone application development, but have been deterred by the learning curve of Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch Framework. This session demonstrates how you can use your .NET skills in creating native iPhone applications using C#, the .NET Framework, as well as standard iPhone development API’s by means of the MonoTouch Framework and MonoTouch tool set. You will learn the basics of building, testing, and deploying iPhone applications as well as a guided tour of Apple’s Interface Builder from a certified Apple iPhone Developer, so you can get up and running quickly and enter this exciting, new development environment.

3/11/2010 : New Features in SSRS 2008 and 2008 R2

2/18/2010 6:30:00 PM

The release of SSRS 2008 and the upcoming release of SSRS 2008 R2 mark a huge upgrade in the type of functionality that is now available when it comes to Reporting on the Microsoft SQL Server Platform. If you have not looked at Reporting Services since 2005 you are potentially missing out on some great features. In this session we will cover all the great new features in these two versions of SSRS. Just to name a few of the improvements we will cover: Charting Enhancements, Tablix Control, Data Feeds, Report Parts, and many more.

2/18/2010 : No Meeting

1/28/2010 6:30:00 PM

1/14/2010 : Simplify XML processing using LINQ to XML

12/24/2009 6:30:00 PM

LINQ technology in .NET 3.5 has some great hooks into XML that make using XML documents a breeze. This seminar will explore how you will put this technology to work in your applications. Many XPath queries can be greatly simplified using LINQ. Besides the obvious advantages of using LINQ to iterate over XML data you can also use it to create and process XML documents. One great way you can use XML is in prototyping, another is to merge XML data with Word 2007 documents. In this seminar you will learn to use LINQ to XML for real world applications.

11/12/2009 : RAD MVC - Getting Up to Speed with ASP.NET MVC Rapid Application

10/22/2009 6:30:00 PM

Nuri Halperin and Steve Bearman will build a complete and practical ASP.NET MVC application, from start to finish, showing rapid application development (RAD) with MVC, complete with an Entity Framework data access layer and humor.

This is *the* jump-start presentation to get you actually going with MVC. The presentation is both practical and enjoyable, with well motivated steps and an interesting presentation. In each major area of development we clearly show what to do and how to leverage what Microsoft provides. We give the steps and recommend best practices.

The MVC framework is even better than we all expected.

10/8/2009 : Web Application Testing using WATIN

9/17/2009 6:30:00 PM

Web application testing is a tough task especially in the ASP.NET web forms environment where model‐view‐controller boundaries intermingle. To solve this presentation is a premier to WatiN (inspired from WatiR, its Ruby counterpart), a feature rich and stable framework. WatiN is developed in C# and aims to bring you an easy way to automate your tests with Internet Explorer and FireFox using .Net. Watin is open‐source functional testing tool for web‐applications which simulate the user actions (filling/submitting form), drives the browser and allows you to do your web application testing in a convenient and developer friendly way. This talk focuses on how you can use WatiN to do web application testing and integrate it with your acceptance testing framework. The presenter provides a step by step guide to build test frameworks for your website using WatiN. This is a code intensive talk so those allergic to slides are encouraged to come.