Feb. 23 - Jan Hanneman and Thomas Lewis - Windows Phone Workshop
- February 23 · 8:00 AM
The workshop has two general presentations. One as an introduction to Windows Phone development and another one on the most important pattern for any XAML development, MVVM. Throughout the day developer can follow the scheduled labs, do other labs or code on their own app. Each scheduled lab will have a short introduction/motivation to the topic. In between we are there to help Devs with labs or their own apps.
Members should bring a laptop that has the WP8 SDK installed. The SDK brings a VS 2012 Express edition and works as add-in to an existing VS 2012 installation. Here the link and the system requirements:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471
You can install the WP SDK available here https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk In case people don’t have the required hardware for WP8, the WP7.1 SDK will also do it. Almost every lab is the same for both versions.
If you are having trouble getting it install, someone should be able to help you at the event.
08:00 – 08:30 Registration - Breakfast Provided
08:30 – 09:15 Introduction to Mobile Development, Windows Phone SDK – Thomas Lewis
09:15 – 09:30 Nokia developer programs - Jan Hannemann
09:30 – 10:15 Lab1 - Hello Windows Phone Lab
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Introduction to MVVM
11:15 – 12:00 Lab2 - Windows Phone Navigation and Controls – Thomas Lewis
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Provided
13:00 – 13:45 Lab3 - Windows Phone Navigation and Controls – Jan Hannemann
13:45 – 14:30 Lab4 - Launcher / Choosers - Thomas Lewis
14:30 – 15:15 Lab5 - Application Lifecycle – Jan Hannemann
15:15 – 16:00 Lab6 - Using a local database in the "Tidy" application - Thomas Lewis
16:00 – 16:30 Lab7 - Tiles - Jan Hannemann
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap-up
Speaker:
Jan Hanneman is a .NET enthusiast with great passion for technology. He is a graduated Computer Scientist originally from Germany, who immigrated to Canada in 2008. From the very beginning of his career he worked on the Microsoft stack and became an expert and lover of .NET technologies. In the last years he worked on large scale research Genomics projects during the day and on award winning Silverlight and Windows Phone software during the night.
As a Nokia Developer Ambassador he shares his knowledge and excitement with the community. Jan Hannemann is ready to assist you with writing the next big app for the Windows Phone platform.
Tommy Lewis is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft who at 8 years old thought that there was a frog apocalypse happening in his yard. It just turned out that the rain made all the frogs come out and hop around. He has been at Microsoft for over 12 years and has evangelized everything from Visual Basic 6 to HTML5 to Design for web developers and designers world-wide. He even once ate a "century egg" while in China. When not talking about the brutality of HTML5, Design and Windows 8, he enjoys his family, wine, death metal and all things 80's. He is also bent on eradicating IE6 from the planet and will never stop, never.
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Wei Cheng
For the Chinese students who came to this event, here is another presentation you might be interested, presented in Chinese about the Open Data stuff from the City: http://www.canadabaidu.com/read...
March 6
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Johnny Kaps
The PDF link to the WP tiles cheat sheet is here:
http://devndesign.fr/wp-content...Jan referenced the file in Nathalie Belval's blog:
http://devndesign.fr/2012/12/wi...February 23
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Michael Chu
You can install the WP SDK available here https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-...
In case people don’t have the required hardware for WP8, the WP7.1 SDK will also do it. Almost every lab is the same for both versions.If you are having trouble getting it install, someone should be able to help you at the event.
February 22
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Matthias Otto
Thanks Bill Alm for pointing this out to me:
The Simulator shipping with WP8 SDK required Hyper-V to run.
If you are planning to run the Simulator out of VMware, you need to do extra steps to pass on the Hyper-V capabilities of your i3/5/7 processor to the Guest OS.
Under Virtual Machine Settings -> Hardware tab -> Processors:
---Select all 4 processor cores
---Enable the 2nd checkbox ("Virtualize Intel VT-x...")On the "Options" tab, select the following Operation System version:
---Instead of Windows, choose "Hyper-V (unsupported)"Now if you open VS2012, create a Windows Phone project and hit F5 it will successfully launch the simulator (it will prompt you to give the Simulator elevated permissions to change HyperV settings.)
If you have the time, please try this out before hand so you're ready to go on Saturday :)
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to Comment on this post. I can also help you out Saturday morning if you have any questions...
February 21
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Stuart Sargeant
Sorry. Work commitments now prevent me from attanding the course on Saturday.
February 20
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Wei Cheng
Hmmm, it is not that good to run Windows 8 on virtual machines...Like some of you I got a development environment set up on a Hyper-V VM, if the Windows 8 were on a physical PC you still could get around it with the shortcut keys, but you just cannot sending the shortcut keys to a VM properly...not ideal for development.
February 19
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Matthias Otto
Yes, you will need the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK installed on your computer. I just realized that the SDK requires Windows 8 64-bit for an operating system.
If you cannot upgrade to Windows 8 (for whatever reason) I recommend setting up a virtual machine to run Windows 8 inside.
February 12
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Branislav (Brano) Stojic
Since this is a workshop, do we need to bring laptops or any other equipment?
Thanks
BranoFebruary 1
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Matthias Otto
Sponsorship Director, Co-Organizer
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Marek Garbowski
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