Built to Roam

Sydney (registration) - 24/25th January 2011
Perth (registration) - 27/28th January 2011
Melbourne (registration) - 31st January/1st February 2011

Presenter: Nick Randolph

Agenda
Day 1: Windows Phone 7 Developer Training
Session 1: Introduction and Windows Phone User Experience Overview
Session 2: Animation, Orientation and Overlays
Session 3: Application Lifecycle, Navigation, Application Tiles and Notification
Session 4: Tasks and Touch
Session 5: Working with the Accelerometer, Sounds and Location
Session 6: Connecting and Consuming the Web

Day 2: Windows Phone 7 Application Workshop
Phase 1: Present your application – 5 minute elevator pitch* with or without demo.
Phase 2: Workshop/Develop your application
Tips & Tricks: As many little bits and pieces Nick can cram into an hour
Phase 3: Continue working on your application
Phase 4: Round up – summarize what you got done and what still needs to be done to get your application into Marketplace**.

Day 1 is designed to equipe you with the fundamentals of building a Windows Phone 7 application. With these new found skills, Day 2 is designed to jump start your application development process. Whether you're just starting your first application, wanting some assistance getting your application ready for Marketplace submission or help troubleshooting some issues, the application workshop is where you should be. During the day Nick will spend time reviewing your application, suggesting areas for improvement and help you resolve any challenges you might have encountered.

* This isn't a traditional presentation - Nick will spend a few minutes with you going through your application idea. 0 stress! Just walk through what the idea entails, what you think will make it a rockin' app and perhaps the areas that you think you'll need/want some help with.

** For applications ready to submit to Marketplace there are a number of Marketplace tokens available.

Australia: 3rd January - 6pm EST 13th February 2011

Round 1 (closed):
- Topic: Sports, Health and Fitness
- Deadline for ideas: 6pm EST Sunday 9/1/2011

Round 2 (open):
- Topic: Business, Tools and Productivity
- Deadline for ideas: 6pm EST Sunday 16/1/2011

Round 3:
- Topic: TBA Sunday 16/1/2011
- Deadline for ideas: 6pm EST Sunday 23/1/2011

Round 4:
- Topic: TBA Sunday 23/1/2011
- Deadline for ideas: 6pm EST Sunday 30/1/2011

Final Round:
- Submit your application and send through link to your Windows Phone 7 application
- Deadline for submission: 6pm EST Sunday 13/2/2011

Full Competition Details

Brisbane: 13th-14th November

Now you have the skills – it’s time to use them to Build an app! The weekend workshop is all about you building something that you’d like to take to market. You can work by yourself or in teams, Nick Randolph (http://www.builttoroam.com) Microsoft’s Evangelists Dave Glover, Catherine Eibner plus a handful of local technical experts will be there to help you! At the end of the weekend, present your work to the judging panel of experts & investors to receive feedback & prizes.

Prerequisites:

To attend you must: Have AT LEAST 1 developer in your team that has attended the Skills Ramp Up Pre day or who already has experience in developing Applications for Phone 7. Be a member of Microsoft BizSpark (You will be asked to provide your BizSpark ID in your registration). www.microsoft.com/BizSpark

The Startup Camp is being held at Microsoft Brisbane Office.

• Brisbane: 13th-14th November
• Theatre 2 | Level 9, Waterfront Place 1 Eagle Street Brisbane QLD 4000 | Map
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Melbourne (20th/21st September 2010)
Sydney (23rd/24th September 2010)
Adelaide (27th/28th September 2010)
Brisbane (29th/30th September 2010)
Perth (14th/15th October 2010)

Are you interested in Windows Phone 7 Development? Are you keen to get ahead of the competition to create apps for the Windows Phone 7? Windows Phone 7 is a fresh exciting mobility platform and potentially a land of opportunity for killer apps! These “Free of Charge” workshops are designed to take your skills to the next level beyond the online training kits and helps you explore some more complex scenarios.

Prerequisites:
To get involved, you need Silverlight/WPF, C# .NET Framework skills and you should have completed a subset of hands on labs from the following:

• Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training
• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings

• Session 1: Introduction and Windows Phone User Experience Overview
• Session 2: Animation, Orientation and Overlays
• Session 3: Application Lifecycle, Navigation, Application Tiles and Notification
• Session 4: Tasks and Touch
• Session 5: Working with the Accelerometer, Sounds and Location

• Session 6: Connecting and Consuming the Web
• Session 7: Retrieving, Storing and Synchronizing Data
• Session 8: Silverlight Analytics, Unit Testing and other Frameworks
• Session 9: Security, Authentication and Round Up

DEV354     Shake, Rattle and Roll with Windows Phone 7
09:45 - 11:00 : Breakout Session : Nick Randolph : 300

What distinguishes a Windows Phone 7 application from a regular desktop application is that it can make use of the features of the phone. In this session you'll learn how to initiate tasks to capture photos from the camera, save a phone number, make a call and send an sms. The hardware integration goes much further with built in support for an accelerometer and FM radio tuner. When combined with the rich media aspects of Silverlight on the device, your Windows Phone 7 application will be set to keep you rocking all night long. .

DEV356     Advanced Windows Phone Services
17:00 - 18:15 : Breakout Session : Nick Randolph : 300

Building Windows Phone 7 applications is all about combining the power of Silverlight on the device with services in the cloud. You can offload long running processes to a worker process hosted in Windows Azure, and receive a push notification when it completes. Your application can also leverage the location services to provide more context rich information. This session walks through how you can consumer a number of cloud-based services such as Messenger Connect, Windows Azure storage and OData WCF Data Services from within your Windows Phone 7 application. Of course, this wouldn't be complete without the mandatory discussion on how to handle connectivity issues, such as caching and synchronization.