Microsoft is hosting free Windows Phone 7 Workshop on June 23 at the Microsoft Canada offices in Mississauga and on June 25 in Richmond BC. The morning will be overview of Windows Phone 7, Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 architecture, developing using XNA and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. I’ll be doing the Silverlight for WP7 and Joey DeVilla will be doing the XNA part.
There will also be a coding challenge in the afternoon, I won’t be participating but will be there to help out the teams. The winners will get some prizes at the end of the day.
Here’s the agenda:
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Check-in, registration and refreshments
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Session 1 - Introducing Windows Phone 7 and the user experience - Selling your apps in the Marketplace - The Windows Phone 7 architecture
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Session 2 - Building Windows Phone 7 apps with Silverlight
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Session 3 - Building Windows Phone 7 games with XNA
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Q&A
12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m.
Lunch, followed by the Coding Challenge Bring your laptops, form a team and try your hand at building a Windows Phone 7 app or game in an afternoon!
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Coding Challenge Results Teams will present their apps, one will be selected as the Coding Challenge Champ and will a prize, and we’ll wrap up the day.
These workshops are free! So make sure you attend and register!
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