This month instead of talking about building cool experiences lets touch some… Well be looking at user experiences in the Wall, in tables (not surface but touch cells), and more. Designers and futures from the [wire] stone experience center will show you high end retail experiences and talk about how they were built and designed and you get to touch and see them in real life. A full spectrum of technology from ipads and slates to other new UX technology we be available for touching… with designers and developer on hand to talk about each bit of hotness. We’ll also be debriefing new trends and what HTML5, vNext and the BUILD conference annoucements means to UX professionals in the Seatle Area.
Remember this time it is NOT at Aquent (to whom we love still 
) but at the new [wire] stone experience center near pioneer square. Park anywhere around or accross at the north stadium lot
WHEN
Date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
WHERE
[wire] stone seattle eXperience center
100 South King Street
Suite 320
Seattle, WA, 98104
USA 206.653.5143
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=100+South+King+Street&mkt=en-US&FORM=BYFD
see http://www.InteractSeattle.org/ for more info.
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The Mango feast continues at the Seattle Silverlight User Group on Sept 7th as we build on the previous Mango presentations. This month, Microsoft patterns & practices team members Francis Cheung and Karl Shifflett will serve up a slice of Mango covering Windows Phone 7 Unit Testing and using an inversion of control container (IoC). This event will be held at the normal time (7:00pm) on 7 Sept 2011:
Abstract:
Unit Testing: Learn how to: unit test Windows Phone 7 applications, write testable code, and run unit tests are part of the build. This session will motivate and teach you to unit test your Windows Phone 7 applications. Think about this, it takes 3-5 days for an update of your application to post to the market place; much better to discover issues before you deploy.
IoC: Learn how to: create Blendable Windows Phone 7 applications who’s view model dependencies are injected into the constructor rather than the view model creating its own dependencies. Dependency injection increases testability of your applications and provides a good design time experience for developers and designers alike. This session will provide you a clear understanding of the benefits and implementation pattern for using dependency injection in your Windows Phone 7 applications.
Speakers
patterns & practices Windows Phone 7 team members Francis Cheung (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/francischeung/) and Karl Shifflett (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kashiffl/, http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com)
Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide: http://wp7guide.codeplex.com/
Date and Time: September 7th, 7pm 2011
Location: Microsoft Maincampus Redmond, WA Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ) at 7pm to 9pm
All the local cool Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there. We will also be talking about vnext for the slug.
As always if you have questions bring them and you can 'Ask the Expert' as we will have a few that would love to help
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SeattleSlug
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-SLUG/181750441443
Entry is Free, Parking is free, everyone is welcome.
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One of the most important developer space's on the Microsoft stack is the still emerging LOB app space for phone 7. This particular book is focused on SharePoint 2010 applications on Phone 7 which is an increasingly important sector of the increasingly important Phone 7 developer segment... yes I know a bit repetitive but still...
The thing in this book that really made it for me a "must have" for LOB wp7 folks is the fact that it separates the basic's skills need on each related platform (wp7 and sharepoint) and then includes the cross over elements of working with both platforms as well. Although narrowly focused this as I pointed out an increasingly important segment that this book is targeted towards and as an LOB developer sometimes myself its an important part of my collection.
The downside of this book would be the lack of depth for phone 7 and sharepoint specific information but that really is beyond the scope of the premise of the book so I can't fault that on the book but that also means that to make the most of this particular book you should probably look into something on sharepoint and another book on windows phone7.
Check out the book on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-SharePoint-Enterprise-Applications-Windows/
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The Mango feast continues at the Seattle Silverlight User Group on Aug 3rd as we build on the previous presentation “Mango Dinner,” presented by Microsoft MVP Alex Golesh. This month, Karl Shifflett (Microsoft patterns & practices team) will serve up a slice of Mango covering data entry forms on the Windows Phone 7. This event will be held at the normal time (7:00pm) on 3 Aug 2011:
Abstract: Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" is Microsoft's newest version of mobile phone. This deep-dive session focuses on a single slice of Mango, the data entry form. Mango has the enhanced data binding stack from Silverlight 4, along with ICommands, IDataErrorInfo to simplify form code and reduce the number of binding converters in applications. It would be unnatural to talk about data forms without a serving of MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) to provide separation of concerns and enabling easier unit testing of the application. In addition, this slice of Mango will cover other techniques that developers can employ to make their forms easier for end-users to fill in on the device.
Bonus: The patterns & practices Windows Phone 7 Guidance team will talk about their new phone project for 15 minutes. Attendees will learn about the project (so they can follow and feed into it) and be able to provide their input as well on needed guidance for building Windows Phone 7 applications. We are very interested in your real-world problems and scenarios that you need guidance on.
Date and Time: August 3rd, 7pm 2011
Location: Microsoft Maincampus Redmond, WA Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ) at 7pm to 9pm
All the local cool Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there. We will also be talking about vnext for the slug.
As always if you have questions bring them and you can 'Ask the Expert' as we will have a few that would love to help.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SeattleSlug
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-SLUG/181750441443
Entry is Free, Parking is free, everyone is welcome.
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After much ado we are planning our next meeting for the Seattle Silverlight User Group. As a followup to Jared Potter's presenting on June 15th titled 'Making It Mango' (http://www.InteractSeattle.org/?p=908 ) we are hosting Alex Golesh (Microsoft MVP) presenting Mango from a technical standpoint. The event will be held at the normal time July 6th, 2011:
Abstract: Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" is Microsoft's newest version of mobile phone. This demo-packed session introduces the new features added to Windows Phone and how to use them to enable additional scenarios which were not possible with previous version and much requested by developers. Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" is Microsoft's newest version of mobile phone. This demo-packed session introduces the new features added to Windows Phone and how to use them to enable additional scenarios which were not possible with previous version and much requested by developers.
Date and Time: July 6th, 2011 7pm
Location: Microsoft Maincampus Redmond, WA Building 40/41 caff ( bing maps ) at 6:30pm to 9:00pm.
All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.
Meet and greet MVPs and Microsoftee’s, hange out will all the local Silverlight experts
This month you can also come with questions and 'Ask The Expert' for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SeattleSlug
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-SLUG/181750441443
Entry is free, Parking is free, everyone is welcome.
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Here’s the deal:
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Any developer that publishes 5 new apps between
April 1 and June 30, 2011 gets FREE advertising for 1 of the 5 apps.
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There is a limit of up to 4 offers per
developer (no gaming with multiple emails, multiple mailing addresses or
variations of name)
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There is a limit of 200 offers in total
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This is open to all US based developers (that
meet the legalese: 18+ years old,…); contest rules are on the site
If you already entered our contest your are already in this one too. (we will be annoucing the winners seperately). To enter the free advertising content go to this url: http://bit.ly/WP7DevOffer and use event code: EV8S4
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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 win a $500 (1st place), $200 (2nd place) or $100 (3rd place) American Express gift card!
Free MarketPlace tokens for those putting their application into the marketplace (a limited supply of these, organizers of each event will collect names and we will distribute)
Telerik is sponsoring a $5,000.00 Grand Prize for the best application over all of the WP7 Unleashed events that are submitted to marketplace. The top 25 will be selected and then one of the top 25 will be randomly picked for the prize (So get your app into the marketplace after the event). They are also giving EVERY attendee a free set of their $99.00 WP7 Controls.
PDSA, Inc. is pleased to sponsor the WP7 Unleashed Events. They will be giving 2 lucky winners from each event a chance to win four 1 hour long videos on Silverlight. In addition 1 lucky person will win our Haystack Code Generator for .NET at each event that allows you to create the business and data classes and the WCF services that can be consumed by Windows Phone 7 applications!
O’Reilly will be giving away a free ebook to every attendee (Many WP7 titles) and will also donate a few books to raffle at each event.
Food and Drink (Water, Sodas) will be provided.
In order to deliver the best possible experience for attendees, seating at these events is VERY limited. Register now!
http://wp7unleashedbellevue.eventbrite.com/
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This month, we are announcing a Windows Phone 7 app contact. Everyone that enters into the phone 7 sweepstakes gets a chance to win a phone plus the person with the most new apps in the market place win’s a Phone 7 and if we have more than 20 entries the person with the second most entries win’s a kinect. But wait that’s not all. Anyone that gets 2 apps into the market place gets the app hub fee back.
Enter to win by going to this url (http://bit.ly/WP7DevSwpstks ) and entering the code: EV8S4 to enter the sweep stakes for the phone 7 drawing. Let us know how many apps you get in the market place via (david.kelley@wirestone.com) we’ll also link to and tweet about your apps and help you get the word out and even rate and write reviews of your apps that are free or have trials.
To get your rebate on the app hub feed follow these directions:
But wait you don’t have a phone for testing… just ping me and I’ll get you a phone to use to help you get your app to market. If you are really awesome we might let you keep it J (free).(david.kelley@wirestone.com)
Need a phone for testing? Np we got you covered. Winners accounced on May 4th.
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This month's (April 6th) meeting is about making money with phone 7. We have 2 presentations, with the first hour on making money with AdCenter from AdCenter team member Boris Feldmen and our second presentation by world renown MVP Walt Ritscher on 'After the development is over: Selling and analyzing your Windows Phone 7 application'.
Boris Feldmans presentation covers: Giving mobile developers options for how to turn their hard work into cold-hard cash is the key to building a thriving Windows Phone ecosystem. This session by Boris Feldman (Microsoft Advertising) will start helping developers put on their business hats by covering the basics of mobile advertising. We'll also show the end-to-end advertising workflow by demonstrating, with live working code, how easy it is to go from File/New to a fully-functional Windows Phone 7 ad-supported app.
Walt Ritscher's presentation is titled: 'After the development is over: Selling and analyzing your Windows Phone 7 application'
abstract: I've talked to a lot of developers who are creating Windows Phone 7 applications. Some do it because they love the platform and have a strong vision of what they want for their mobile applications. Others see the WP7 landscape as a green field opportunity and hope to cash in on the exciting new device. But what happens after you written your last line of code and are ready to market your application?
You have to set a price for your application and get it on the marketplace. So can you make money as a Windows Phone 7 developer?
The answer is yes, but you have to know what you are doing. Since the AdCenter team is sharing the stage during this event this talk will concentrate on 3rd party ad frameworks like AdMob. This talks shows you the various ways to sell your app, including tips on pricing, whether to create trial versions or make free ad supported applications. Lots of real world stories and sales numbers during the evening.
As an added bonus, learn how to instrument your code so you can see what features your users love and what features they avoid and the reason analytics are important to improving your application.
Date and Time: April 6th, 2011 7pm
Location: Microsoft Maincampus Redmond, WA Building 40/41 caff ( bing maps ) at 6:30pm to 9:00pm.
All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.
Meet and greet MVPs and Microsoftee’s, hange out will all the local Silverlight experts
This month you can also come with questions and 'Ask The Expert' for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SeattleSlug
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-SLUG/181750441443
Entry is free, Parking is free, everyone is welcome.
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