London Nokia Windows Phone Training

Heading for the Emirates Stadium.

Today we started what will be our last Nokia Training event for Windows Phone. This one was rather special though, being based at the Emirates Stadium, home of The Arsenal football team. As well as doing our training, a chance of a trip around the ground was in the offing.

They even had Arsenal branded WiFi access (this one has expired now…)

The Hallowed turf

Some of the delegates, more on Flickr. I’ll stitch a panorama when I get home, not got the software on the tiny laptop.

Free Beer in a football stadium, what could possibly go wrong…

We had some lively discussions and I hope everyone got something out of the day. In terms of resources I said I’d put up links to the content. Here we are:

You can get all the content, slide decks and more, from the Jumpstart web site here:

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/wpmango/m/mediagallery/default.aspx

The ones you want are:

01 Mango Building Phone Apps
02 Mango Intro Silverlight
03 Mango Advanced Silverlight
05 Mango FastApp Switching
11 Mango XNA Winphone
12 Mango Selling applications

There are also other decks and samples you might find interesting. If you want to watch videos of Andy and myself delivering this content (and who wouldn’t) then you can find them on Channel 9 here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Mango-Jump-Start-01-Building-Windows-Phone-Apps-with-Visual-Studio-2010

You can find the Tidy ToDo application here. To use the WCF server project you have to have IIS installed on your machine and you must start Visual Studio in Administrator mode:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=a4ce6a659fd80c02&resid=A4CE6A659FD80C02!1482

If you want to learn C# from the same text that we teach our students with at Hull, take a look here:

www.csharpcourse.com

There is also a copy of the Windows Phone 7.0 Blue Book there, which has some background on phone programming that you might find useful.

Comments

[talv]

a whole post and not a single mention of cheese? Thanks for a great day I'll definitely be checking all the stuff out when I get back to Brum tomorrow!

[Rafe]

Thanks for the presentations. I even enjoyed most of the jokes - although there was not a conducive environment to laughing.

Appreciate having the materials / resources collected all in one place.

[rgccarter]

You referenced a website with free icons to download to use in WP7 applications, can you remind me what it was?

[Rob]

I think you mean thenounproject.com:

http://thenounproject.com/

[Jonathon Curtis]

Hi Rob
Thanks for a very interesting day of Windows Phone training at Arsenal.
After one days training and armed with your “Windows phone Blue book” during a bit of free time during the Christmas break I have written and published my first Windows phone app.
You can check it out here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/5477d3b7-e368-4a00-a444-c371f1a71146
Thanks again,
Regards
Jonathon