Inspiration Tour Resources

Yesterday saw the first of our Inspiration Tour dates kindly hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University.

I thought it would be a good idea to pull together a bunch of resources on the technologies we talk about as a central reference for those who attend the tour or are interested in Silverlight, Embedded, XNA, Popfly or Surface.

Silverlight - silverlight.net

• Getting started with Silverlight (Includes links to all required downloads) - https://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
• Expression Homepage - https://www.microsoft.com/expression/
• Expression Blend Forum (Non MS) - https://expressionblend.com/
• Silverlight videos on Channel8 - https://channel8.msdn.com/Search/?TagName=silverlight
• MIX07 Sessions - https://sessions.visitmix.com/
• Silverlight on the web - https://silverlight.net/Showcase/
• Imagine Cup UI Design Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=18 

XNA - creators.xna.com/

• Getting started with XNA (Includes links to all required downloads) - https://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill/archive/2007/09/03/getting-started-with-xna.aspx
• Starter Kits (Full games with source) - https://creators.xna.com/Education/StarterKits.aspx
• Tutorials - https://creators.xna.com/Education/Tutorials.aspx
• XNA team blog - https://blogs.msdn.com/xna/
• Dream-Build-Play - https://dreambuildplay.com/main/Default.aspx
• Imagine Cup Games Development Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=12

Windows Embedded - microsoft.com/windows/embedded/

• Getting started with Embedded - https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/aa731285.aspx
• Windows Mobile - https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/
• Windows Embedded blog - https://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/
• Tahoe Micro Framework board - https://www.embeddedfusion.com/default.aspx?id=90
• Imagine Cup Embedded Development Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=11

Popfly - popfly.ms

• Introduction to Popfly - https://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill/archive/2007/07/12/popfly-on-ukstudentzine.aspx
• Popfly in 15 minutes video - https://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=43f66911-2acf-468a-b455-1fe4636d3553

Surface - microsoft.com/surface/

• Prototype PlayAnywhere MSR video - https://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/PlayAnywhere%20final%201Mbps.wmv

Hopefully these resources will give you everything you need to get started with these technologies. If you have any questions about any of these technologies then please comment on this post.

Technorati Tags: Silverlight, XNA, Windows Embedded, Popfly, Surface, Inspiration Tour, Microsoft

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2007
  Thanks for the links, was a good event shame about the technical problems. Let us know when it has been confirmed about revisiting and will start spreading the word.

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2007
  Hey man, i just got back from the stafford presentation you guys did (those cubed shirts are awesome, and i want the machine that makes them), could i get a list of the URL's from the thing?  I got the microsoft.com/student one and this one, but i wanted to play around with the xna and stuff (and i'd love to get a look in on popfly).   I'll check back here or you can e-mail me Thanks, good presentation guys :)

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2007
  Hey Alexis, most of the resources for getting started with the technology we showed are in this post. There are all the links to XNA/Embedded/Silverlight and my introduction to Popfly article. If you need any other help getting started feel free to reply.

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  February 10, 2008
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