MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Content Overview

Artigo
03/23/2010

The tools available at MIX 10 and for public download are a Community Technology Preview, while not feature complete, the tools release at MIX 10 ships with a robust set of functionality.

The white papers provide guidance on architecture, development, as well as design. In addition there are code samples and hands-on-labs that cover key topics such as Silverlight, the application bar, splash screen, navigation model, and XNA Game Studio.

Training available now:

The following sections provide the information you need to build Windows Phone applications:

The Windows Phone MIX Sessions

Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below:

Windows Phone – General Design and Development
Windows Phone and Silverlight
Windows Phone and XNA

There are more than 18 hours worth of session video on Windows Phone covering the platform, the marketplace, Silverlight, and XNA Game Studio.

Windows Phone - General Design and Development

Title	Video	Slides	Recommended Audience
KEY01: Day 1 Keynote The Day 1 keynote started with Silverlight and finished with the first complete announcement Windows Phone and its development environment, as well as where you can download the tools to get started immediately.	WMV	n/a	Manager, Architect, Designer, Developer
CL01: Changing Our Game – An Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Series Joe Belfiore, Corporate VP Windows Phone Major changes are coming to Windows Phone! This session goes in-depth on the design and features of Windows Phone and gives a comprehensive picture of what’s coming in this exciting new release.	WMV	n/a	Manager, Architect, Designer, Developer
CL13: The Windows Phone Application Platform This session is delivered by Charlie Kindel, PGPMWPAPDE (Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform and Developer Experience) provides a “100-level” overview of what’s available for developers who want to build Windows Phone apps.	WMV	PPTX	Manager, Architect, Developer
CL14: Designing Windows Phone 7 Series Albert Shum, Mobile Design Partner, lead design of Windows Phone 7 Michael Smuga, Studio Director Chad Roberts, UX Design Lead Windows Phone constitutes a dramatic new user experience paradigm. This session will provide prescriptive guidance, tips, and techniques on how designers & developers can build beautiful, compelling user experiences that are consistent with the built-in Windows Phone 7 Series experiences.	WMV	PPTX	Manager, Architect, Designer, Developer
CL18: Windows Phone 7 Series Architecture Deep Dive Istvan Cseri, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series represents a significant change from the past. The entire stack, starting with the operating system, user experience, and the application platform have been engineered to build a new class of phone that users will just love. This session will go under the covers and describe how to think about applications and games from the perspective of user experience, security, packaging, cloud services and performance. Details on the new application model, device capabilities, location, sensors, and other platform capabilities will be covered.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Architect, Developer
CL20: Making Money with Windows Phone Applications and Games Todd Biggs, Director of Program Management John Bruno, Lead Program Manager Windows Phone Marketplace will revolutionize distribution of Windows Phone applications, games, and content, and is designed to solve the two largest problems of the Windows Phone consumer-focused developer community: distribution and monetization. This session will provide application developers with the insights, tools, and processes necessary to begin distributing and monetizing their applications on the Windows Phone platform.	WMV	PPTX	Business and Technical Manager
CL23: Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager for Windows Phone The Mobile Web has been a long time in coming, and now that it’s here, it’s a force that you and your business can’t afford to ignore. What has made all of this possible is the combination of ever-more-powerful devices, fast network connections, and highly capable mobile browsers. In this session, you will learn how to build sites that work well and look great on Windows Phone and across mobile devices. We’ll cover the core mobile Web scenarios, preparing content for mobile, and tips and techniques for debugging and testing your sites.	WMV	n/a	Web Team Manager, Web Architect, Web Developer

Windows Phone and Silverlight

Title	Video	Slides
CL02: Blend 4 for Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 Christian Schormann and Pete Blois of the Expression Blend team Explore how Expression Blend lets you design and build rich, vibrant Windows Phone, Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 applications. Take advantage of a host of new platform and tools capabilities to produce better user experiences, with less code.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Developer, Designer
CL15: An Introduction to Developing Applications for Microsoft Silverlight Shawn Oster, Silverlight Program Manager New to Silverlight? This is the session for you. This session will cover: how to get started building your first application, tooling, extensibility and deployment. We’ll also highlight the capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight on the PC, as well as support for Windows Phone.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Architect, Developer, Designer
CL16: Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 1 Mike Harsh, Program Manager for Silverlight Together with part 2, these sessions give an overview of the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. Part 1 will cover new input paradigms including multi-touch, software keyboard, accelerometer and microphone, as well as the APIs to leverage phone applications like email, phone dialer, contact list and more.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Architect, Developer
CL17: Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 2 Pete Torr, Program Manager for Windows Phone Together with part 1, these sessions give an overview of the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. Part 2 will cover the new application model, updated control templates, themes, and services available to applications, including new Windows Phone web services.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Architect, Developer
CL59: Unit Testing Silverlight and Windows Phone Applications Jeff Wilcox, Senior Software Development Engineer Learn how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. See what tools are available to easily validate controls and application interfaces and gain a solid understanding of test principles to deliver great experiences for your clients and customers.	WMV	PPTX	Technical Manager, Architect, Developer
CL60: Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone Seema Ramchandani, Program Manager - Silverlight Performance and Graphics for Windows Phone 7 Series Learn how to optimize your Silverlight code for Windows Phone. This session will discuss common bottlenecks using the graphics and managed stacks, and will highlight how to optimize startup and reaction time.	WMV	PPTX	Architect, Developer

Windows Phone and XNA Game Studio

Title	Video	Slides
CL19: Development and Debugging Tools for Windows Phone 7 Series Cullen Waters of the Advanced Technology Group, who works on the Xbox 360. This session covers tools available to the developer for building XNA games including debugging, emulation, and performance. Special emphasis is placed on best practices for managed code performance and .NET profiling tools you can use to optimize your games for windows phone.	WMV	n/a	Game Developer
CL21: Developing Games for Windows Phone 7 with XNA Game Studio 4.0 Michael Klucher, Lead Program Manager With the release of Windows Phone, game developers will be able to create amazing content rapidly through the power of Silverlight and the XNA framework. This talk will outline the basic application model of Windows Phone, enumerate Windows Phone core device characteristics, and walk through highlights of Silverlight and XNA Frameworks on the phone.	WMV	PPTX	Game Developer
CL22: High Performance 3D Games on Windows Phone 7 Series Shawn Hargreaves , Software Development Engineer, XNA Team This session will detail how to use XNA to develop 3D games for Windows Phone, with a special eye towards the special characteristics of Windows Phone application platform. Special attention will be placed on optimizing high-performance managed code games for the platform, to help you squeeze out every last drop of performance.	WMV	n/a	Game Developer

Windows Phone 7 Series Tools

Here are links to the tools to architect, design, and develop Windows Phone applications using Visual Studio and Expression Blend. Note that they are listed in recommended installation order.

1. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Release Candidate (Needed ONLY if you want create applications using the professional tools)

2. Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Recommend installing this if you install VS 2010 Ultimate RC)

3. Expression Blend 4 Beta (Needed in order try Expression Blend with Windows Phone)

4. Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP (be sure to read the release notes )

5. Microsoft Expression Blend Add-in Preview for Windows Phone

6. Microsoft Expression Blend Software Development Kit Preview for Windows Phone

Items 3 – 6 are the minimum I would recommend installing. The Windows Phone Emulator has specific graphics hardware requirements that can be found in the release notesfor item 4. It is also not supported to run the tools within a virtual environment.

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Anonymous
March 31, 2010
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