Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Silverlight developer => Windows Phone 7 Developer. My presentation at Code Project’s Mobile Development Virtual Tech Summit

by vbandi via VBandi's blog on 11/16/2010 11:40:16 AM

I was asked by Code Project to present at the Mobile Development Virtual Tech Summit about Windows Phone 7 development. Unfortunately, there is not much information at their own web page, so I am putting my session summary here on my blog.

The event itself is online (virtual), and will take place on November 17th. After that, the sessions will still be available on-demand.

My session is titled “Transferring Your Silverlight Knowledge to Windows Phone 7 Development.”. It is an introductory level session (200), so don’t expect too much technical depth. Here is the summary:

It is said that if you are familiar with Silverlight development on the Desktop, you know 90% of the things you need to develop Windows Phone 7 apps. This introductory session focuses on the remaining 10% and discusses important questions such as:

• How is developing for the phone different than developing for the desktop?
• What are the key considerations when developing an app for a touch screen instead of a mouse and a monitor?
• How to cope with the relatively weak processor? How to make sure that the application remains responsive? What can be done to utilize the GPU in Silverlight for WP7?

My session goes live at 2:30 PM EST on November 17th (which is 8:30 PM in Central Europe). See you there!