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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Leveraging Windows Azure for the Windows Phone Developer' delivered by Samidip Basu on January 4th, 2012.

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Webinar summary:

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, networking and content delivery capabilities to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet. The Windows Azure platform can be used both by applications running in the cloud and by applications running on local systems. 

Windows Phone 7 is the latest smartphone OS from Microsoft. Built from the ground-up, Windows Phone 7 brings together what you care about most, and brings it to you in an innovative and simple Metro UI interface. You and your content are at the center of it all through the Start screen experience with Live Tiles and integrated Hubs which provide rich & continuous user experience. 

In this webinar, we take a close look at how Azure & Windows Phones could play together; and in general, why cloud support is needed for most well-designed mobile solutions. We discuss techniques on how a Windows Phone developer might consider leveraging Windows Azure for cloud infrastructure needs. Attendees should be able to gain solid understanding & real-world examples on how to use Windows Azure to augment Mobile solutions, specially on Windows Phone.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Cloud Computing & Windows Azure
• Push Notifications for Windows Phone
• Push Notifications from Azure, including deep-linked secondary Live Tiles & Toasts for Windows Phone Mango
• Why consider OData while leveraging the cloud in cross-platform Mobile solutions
• Usage of SQL Azure & OData through Windows Phone
• Usage of Azure-hosted WCF Services for Windows Phone
• How to use Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone

3 of the attendees who left valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won a free copy of Samidip's ebook 'OData & Cloud Augmentation of Windows Phone Applications'. 

Another 3 who weeted this webinar using tag #webinarsilverlightshow got a free ebook 'Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook' provided by Packt Publishing (read this book's review on SilverlightShow).

See the who are the lucky winners!

More on this topic you can find in the following two articles by Samidip Basu and their associated source code:

• Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data
• Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Unit Testing for Windows Phone' delivered by MCC Peter Kuhn on December 14th, 2011.

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Note (regarding the demos): 

"The BDD sample project uses a custom version of the WindowsPhoneTestFramework.Test.EmuSteps.dll in the Windows Phone Test Framework that understands 'When' steps. The version of the framework that is currently on NuGet does not understand this semantics yet, so if you plan on using that official version, you need to exchange all 'When' steps with 'Then' steps."

Webinar summary: To many, unit testing is a mystery for normal desktop applications already. The concept is not hard to understand and seems great, but writing unit tests for the correct code, and ones that test correctly, requires a lot of experience. Now, unit testing on the phone? Is that really necessary?

In this webinar we're going to talk about possible scenarios of unit testing for Windows Phone. We will also see how to set up your development environment for this, because even when you are willing to and interested in writing unit tests for your mobile application, this is not exactly straight forward, and comes with strings attached and certain limitations.

3 of the attendees who left valuable feedback in our post-webinar survey won a free copy of Peter Kuhn's ebook 'Getting Ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599'. See the winners!

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on November 29th, 2011.

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Webinar summary: At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses on web, apps, touch and the tablet form factor. For developers, things will change as well. They need to be ready to build applications, called Metro applications, tailored for Windows 8 or adapt their existing applications for the new OS. Together with Windows 8, Microsoft announced Windows Runtime (WinRT), a new way of working with Windows.

As you can see, that's a lot of new stuff to get your head around! To help you, Gill Cleeren, Microsoft Regional Director and Silverlight MVP will explain you the new strategy that Microsoft is taking. In this webinar, we'll see what WinRT really is, how we can use it to build Metro applications with and how we can leverage C# and Silverlight knowledge to build Metro applications. We'll take a look at a fully working application as well to give you a clear picture of all the knowledge you'll gather during this hour. Watch this recording so the developer story for Windows 8 will have less secrets for you!

Some small prizes were given in this webinar:

• Three free copies of Gill Cleeren's ebook 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506'
• and 3 free ebooks 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Packt Publishing

See who grabbed the ebooks! 

  

Enjoyed this webinar? Gill Cleeren has a 4-day training session on XAML!

XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win 8 Metro & WPF: a 4-day Training in London, UK
February 20-23, 2012, from 9.00 am till 5.00 pm | Trainer: Gill Cleeren | Training page

This training will focus on mastering XAML on the following platforms: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 Metro and WPF.

The goal of this training is to teach the students to work with XAML by using it on one platform, and then apply the knowledge they already have to other platforms. A focus will be put on the differences between all platforms, as well as the aspects in which they overlap.

Fee for the full 4-day training course: £1,360 + VAT early-bird until January 20, 2012 / £ 1.700 + VAT standard.

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Watch a recording of the webinar 'Networking with Sockets in Windows Phone' delivered by MCC Peter Kuhn on November 9th, 2011.

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The full source code to the SNTP client demoed in the webinar is now available as part of the open source project "Phone Net Tools" on CodePlex: http://phonenettools.codeplex.com/

In particular, the parts that resemble what has been shown live are the "Sample.Ntp" project and the implementation of the SNTP client which is located in "PhoneNetTools/Ntp/SntpClient.cs". More detailed documentation of this project will be added tomorrow (on CodePlex).

The links listed in the webinar slides are:

• Another sample (simple instant messaging) with full source code with more detailed explanations is available on Peter Kuhn's blog: http://www.pitorque.de/MisterGoodcat/post/Windows-Phone-7-Mango-Sockets.aspx 
• Current performance problems with sockets on some phone brands/models (in particular HTC models and the Dell Venue) is described here: http://www.pitorque.de/MisterGoodcat/post/Windows-Phone-7-UDP-performance.aspx
• Another of open source library that demonstrates and uses TCP, UDP and Multicast is named "Phone as a Remote Control" and can be found here: http://paarc.codeplex.com

More detailed background information on the event-based sockets programming approach in WP7 and .NET (I/O Completion Ports) can be found here (very technical):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163356.aspx(MSDN Magazine article), and here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365198(VS.85).aspx (MSDN documentation)

Webinar summary: Windows Phone comes with several built-in options to do networking, for example to access web services or conveniently make http requests. But with the recent "Mango" update, several new options have been added that enable additional scenarios like multiplayer gaming or instant messaging – all of which were hardly possible before, or only with several limitations in place. In this webinar Peter Kuhn reviewed these features and explained how you can use them to enable performant, custom networking in your application.

The contents in particular:

• Sockets: an overview of the new networking features in "Mango"
• TCP vs. UDP: making a decision
• Sample code
• Obstacles during development and testing
• [Optional] Advanced topic: Multicast

As usual, we had a number of awards for our attendees! Check out who grabbed the 3 free SilverlightShow Ebooks 'Getting Ready for the Windows Phone Exam 70-599' (see all SilverlightShow ebooks), and 3 free ebooks 'Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook' from Packt Publishing!

Watch a recording of the webinar 'WCF RIA POCO Domain Services' delivered by Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes on September 28th, 2011.

Download the webinar slides (ppt / pptx) | Download the demos | Download the QandA document

WCF RIA Services makes it simple to query and update data from your Silverlight application, as well as invoke other functionality on the server side. But most examples show using it with the built-in support for directly querying Entity Framework domain models where the entity classes are code generated for you.

In this webinar, Brian explains how you can mix WCF RIA Services with the new Code First features of Entity Framework 4, or just get your data from somewhere else such as flat files, but still benefit from the power of RIA Services for the client side.

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As usual, we had a number of awards for our attendees! Check out who grabbed the 3 free SilverlightShow Ebooks 'WCF RIA Services' (see all SilverlightShow ebooks), and SilverlightShow T-shirts!

Also watch recordings of the previous webinars from Brian's WCF RIA Services series:

• Querying & Updating Data From Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services
• WCF RIA Services Validation
• Secure and Personalize Your Silverlight App with WCF RIA Services

Watch a recording of the webinar 'Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on August 24, 2011.

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With Silverlight 4 out for over a year now, some amazing applications have been built with it. It’s time to take a look at the next version, which is due late 2011. In this session, Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren takes you on a tour of the advanced new features available in the platform. See what you’ll be using in 2012 for all your Silverlight needs!

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We had a number of awards announced for the attendees in this live webinar session! Check out who grabbed the free SilverlightShow Ebooks 'Getting Ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506' (see all SilverlightShow ebooks), and SilverlightShow T-shirts!

Gill also delivered the following SilverlightShow webinars:
Blend for Silverlight Developers
10 things I'm sure you didn't know about Silverlight 4
Let's MEF: overview of the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4
Silverlight's Power Features: Data Binding in Action
Switch or no switch: Can I build my business apps in LightSwitch?
Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight 
Building a Silverlight 4 Application End-to-end

Watch a recording of Peter Kuhn's webinar 'XNA for Windows Phone 7' delivered on June 30th, 2011.

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The demos used are from the following article by Peter Kuhn:
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 12 - Mango (1)

For more information about Tombstoning please check the following article by Peter Kuhn:
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 11 - Tombstoning
 

In this webinar, Peter Kuhn presented some the key features of game programming for Windows Phone 7, explained how it is different from creating normal applications and what your options are. You can see how the upcoming Mango update simplifies a lot of the tasks that were rather tedious in the RTM release, and what new opportunities that creates.
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Read SilverlightShow article series 'XNA for Silverlight Developers' authored by Peter Kuhn. Now available as an ebook too!
 

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Watch a recording of Gill's webinar 'Blend for Silverlight Developers' delivered on June 16th, 2011.

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Blend a designer's tool? You're partly right, partly wrong. Yes, the designer on your team should use Blend, but so should you when building Silverlight applications. Did you know Blend has rich data binding capabilities? And do you know how to create custom controls using Blend?
 
All this and more was explained in this session aimed at developers!

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Watch a recording of Telerik's webinar 'Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7' delivered by Evan Hutnick on May 18th, 2011.

In this webinar, Telerik Developer Evangelist Evan Hutnick brought you on a quick tour through the Windows Azure platform and how you can start utilizing it when building your Windows Phone 7 applications. This involved a high-level overview of the Azure platform and why Azure makes sense for the Windows Phone platform. Then he did a quick walk through creating a sample SQL Azure database, a service you can call to the database with, and how to incorporate that data within your Windows Phone applications utilizing the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7.

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