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DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 6

Mike Ormond — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:36:35 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 6: "How to sell Apps through Marketplace" with Rob Miles

"Using Windows Marketplace. In this session we explain how to join the Marketplace and get your applications out there. We take a look at how your solutions are packaged and deployed and how you go about registering a device for development and then using that with Visual Studio 2010 to test your applications."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 5

Mike Ormond — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:35:11 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 5: "Games Programming on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight and XNA" with Rob Miles

"Getting Started with XNA on Windows Phone. We talk about what makes the Windows Phone such a good platform for XNA development and how you create XNA games for it. We take a look at how games can manage the orientation of a phone and give you some tips on getting the best performance. Then we move on to take a look at the accelerometer input and how to make games that use this."

Here are the links to the individual sessions:

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 4

Mike Ormond — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:32:49 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 4: "Raising the dead: Programming Silverlight Apps that survive Tombstoning" with Andy Wigley

"Application Lifecycle and Using the Phone. A look at the execution model on the phone, and how to create applications that give a great user experience in the face of phone calls, termination, switching to a different app or termination due to the lock screen displaying. We show how to respond to events to make your application give the appearance of being “always on” and the data persistence facilities that you will need to make this work."

Here are the links to the individual sessions:

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 3

Mike Ormond — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:35:07 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 3: "Integrating with the device capabilities (location, camera, contacts, phone)" with Andy Wigley

"Windows Phone 7 includes facilities to access built-in services and integrated hardware. In this session, you will learn how to use the Location Service to retrieve your current location making use of Cell Tower Lookup, WiFi location, and GPS. We’ll also show how you can map your position using Bing Maps. We also take a look at “Pickers and Choosers”, how your application can use the built in phone behaviours to place calls, take pictures and select contacts."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 8

Mike Ormond — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:04:41 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 8: "Creating WP7 Apps that work offline" with Andrej Radinger

"To ensure the best experience for mobile users, apps built for Windows Phone 7 must implement an occasionally-connected pattern of development that Silverlight developers for the other platforms may find unfamiliar. In this session, learn how to build mobile apps that adjust their behaviour based on changing network conditions. Also learn how to conquer unreliable wireless networks by implementing RESTful principles to ensure your messages are both compact and fast. Then take those WCF REST services and use them to retrieve database tables, rows, and columns in order to drive the behaviour of your mobile applications. Finally, learn how to cache data to Isolated Storage to ensure that your Windows Phone apps keep working regardless of network conditions."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 2

Mike Ormond — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:53:18 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 2: "Silverlight App Development on Windows Phone 7" with Andy Wigley

"In this session, you will learn how to adopt the ‘Metro’ styling in your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps. You will also get an overview of how the built in controls work, and how to tailor the user input to match your requirements. We also take a look at page navigation within a multi-form Silverlight application on the phone and how to use the navigation inputs for best effect. We’ll also look at two key areas unique to Windows Phone 7 – implementing menus using the ApplicationBar, and how to handle phone orientation changes."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event

Mike Ormond — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:20:19 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development was held with speakers such as Andy Wigley and Rob Miles who delivered the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training. From the registration site:

"This event is all about Windows Phone 7. One day of demo-rich presentations where you can learn about developing Silverlight and XNA apps for Windows Phone. Come along and get ready to share in the excitement of the launch of this brand new phone platform.

On the day you’ll hear from speakers and MVPs from Appa Mundi and the .NET developer community including some of the top-rated speakers from Tech Ed! We will have some of the Microsoft UK Developer Team on hand to help out and chat to attendees."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published).

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 7

Mike Ormond — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:15:28 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 7: "Creating an application for WP7 with Cortexica’s ‘visual search’ API" with Tricky Bassett

"Devices have changed the way that super-brands connect with their customers. If you want to compete in this cluttered marketplace it's essential that you evolve your product or service into a unique brand. Get the thoughts of Tricky on 'experience design' and the methods that his team have put into practice on their first Windows Phone 7 application. This session covers the iterative approach that Tricky and his team use to design experiences, including: Branding, sketching and conceptualisation."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 1

Mike Ormond — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:14:36 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 1: "Understanding the Windows Phone 7 Development Tools and Getting Started" with Maarten Struys

"Developing applications for Windows Phone 7 is a efficient and easy, thanks to an excellent suite of development and design tools. For the first time, Microsoft offers free tools to develop applications for Windows Phone. To get the most out of your day-to-day work, it is important to understand the different capabilities of the different tools. This sample-filled session explains when to use Microsoft Expression Blend and when to use Microsoft Visual Studio, from a software development perspective. Also shown are how both tools operate together to create captivating applications for Windows Phone 7. Finally, the session explains the added value that you, as a developer, will get when using Visual Studio 2010 Professional."

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

DDD Windows Phone 7 Event - Session 0

Mike Ormond — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:13:24 GMT

On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:

Session 0: "Windows Phone 7: A Different Kind of Phone" with Andrej Radinger

Here are the links to the individual sessions (links will become active as more sessions are published)

The event was sponsored by

Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Pt2

Mike Ormond — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:37:00 GMT

One of the many benefits of ASP.NET MVC is its extensibility. It's possible to replace / add functionality for most of the major components. In this video we'll take a look at replacing the default Web Forms view engine (the code responsible for rendering views) with the Spark view engine which offers a very succinct markup grammar.

Part 2 focuses on converting the NerDinner Home/Index view from Web Forms to Spark. You can see companion blogposts at http://bit.ly/mospark.

Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Part 1

Mike Ormond — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:34:00 GMT

One of the many benefits of ASP.NET MVC is its extensibility. It's possible to replace / add functionality for most of the major components. In this video we'll take a look at replacing the default Web Forms view engine (the code responsible for rendering views) with the Spark view engine which offers a very succinct markup grammar.

Part 1 focuses on installing and configuring Spark with the NerdDinner sample project. You can see companion blogposts at http://bit.ly/mospark.

Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design

Mike Ormond — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.

dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their front-end web interface is currently built using HTML and AJAX. They were keen to explore opportunities to build an enhanced experience for their users.

In this video I chat to some of the people involved in the project to get their perspective on the project and the results.

Glenn Pittaway on SDL

Mike Ormond — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:30:00 GMT

I'm posting this on behalf of Andrew Fryer who usually posts to TechNet but today has something developer focused for us:

"Glenn Pittaway the Group Program Manager for the Secure development Lifecycle (SDL) talks about the past present and future of SDL. The SDL methodology is at the core of all development work that has an internet facing element (i.e. virtually everything!) at Microsoft. You might argue that this gives this gives Microsoft developers an edge over the competition as they can write more secure code more quickly, however these same SDL resources are also publicly available so you can adopt the same approach in your organisation."

Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 2

Mike Ormond — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:00 GMT

On 3rd July 2009, ScottGu happened to be in London and couldn't resist an invitation to do a special ASP.NET MVC session for the Vista Squad user group at the Microsoft offices in Reading.

Part 1 of this video can be found here.

Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 1

Mike Ormond — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:39:00 GMT

(More) Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:13:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about "suteki", ASP.NET MVC, open source, why Suteki Shop and open frameworks.

Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:12:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about ASP.NET MVC, TDD, technology choices, pros, cons etc etc

C# 4.0 New Features - Named Parameters

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Named Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

C# 4.0 New Features - Optional Parameters

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Optional Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

C# 4.0 New Features - COM Interop Enhancements

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:07:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (COM Interop Enhancements) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt4 - Smooth texture to WPF application

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:33:00 GMT

3D has traditionally been complex and challenging but with the advent of WPF, incorporating 3D into your applications is much more realistic. These 4 videos walk through the process of building a very simple 3D application.

I start by creating a re-usable 3D model of a yoghurt pot in Blender with textured surfaces representing interchangeable product artwork. This model is then imported into a WPF application via Expression Blend. I add some animation and user interaction via the 3D tools library on CodePlex and show how easy it is to switch the imagery to represent different products.

For an idea of what the final application looks like, visit my blog post or click here for the xbap.

Links to other parts:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt3 -Colourful model to smooth textures

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:31:00 GMT

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt2 - Blocky model to colourful model

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:09:00 GMT

Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt1 - Blank paper to blocky outline

Mike Ormond — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:00 GMT