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Start Dreaming. Start Building. There has been a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement in the developer community as we get ready to launch Windows Phone 7. There have been over 300,000+ downloads of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools as developers...
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The next Cloud Computing User Group Meeting for Dallas will be on Thursday, September 2nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Microsoft (Las Colinas Office, Building LC1). The presentation will be done by Derek Martin and Trent Foley and will cover Windows...
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I’ve done a TON of Windows Phone 7 demos over the past few months, and I get asked all the time for access to download my samples. I’ve been meaning to post this application since I started all of this, but just never got around to it. SO – here...
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Microsoft DreamSpark Program provides students with Microsoft Professional Development tools for free! Pass this information along to your friends, family and anyone else you know. The tools for building the applications are free, the marketplace...
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Do you work for a company that truly, I mean truly, values technical leadership and skills? Do they value your abilities to communicate with non-IT staff? Do they encourage you to get involved in the community through a bonus compensation...
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I am very happy to announce that our own Teresa Burger has put together another amazing Silverlight training opportunity in the DFW area. She has managed to successfully wrangle Victor Gaudioso, Microsoft MVP and Book Author to come to Dallas on...
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I have used Shawn Oster’s excellent InputScopes blog post and accompanying demo in the past when talking about Silverlight and the first revisions of the Windows Phone 7 dev tools, but noticed today when I was prepping for a talk that it no longer seems...
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Although I had originally hoped to be one of the first, there are LOTs of great articles out now about how to use Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7. Instead of re-hashing information that is already readily available on the internet, this article...
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Our August 2010 meeting will be held on Tuesday August 17th, 2010 6pm at Justin Brands. Please join us as Chance Coble presents: "Beginning Intelligent F#" Meeting Sponsor TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing...
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For those of you interested in doing development on Windows Phone 7, Jaime Rodriguez just posted links to recordings from the recent Windows Phone Design Day: A few weeks ago, our Studios team, the folks responsible for the end-to-end user experience...
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After embarassing myself earlier this week with a demo I wrote a while back not working in front of a crowd, I tried to figure out what had happened to the Push Notifications stuff in WP7. Turns out, the service has changed post-Beta, and the existing...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010 – http://nwacodecamp.org In the fine tradition of other great CodeCamp events across the world, the Northwest Arkansas developer community has announced their next CodeCamp, scheduled for October 23rd at the Tyson World...
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The guys over at Touchality have been working hard on a Foursquare application for WIndows Phone 7 – check out what they’ve accomplished so far at http://4square.codeplex.com/ From what I can tell, the check in and friends features work pretty well. ...
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For those of you that attended my talk at TechReady 11 or at Dallas TechFest 2010, here is the sample application I built along with my code snippets and my demo script. I’ll be working on a Hands-on-Lab version of this talk, as well as producing...
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Are you ready to gain access to the latest tools, turning your hobby into a source of revenue, or expand your network? Stop dreaming. Start building. Join us for a new series of Windows Phone 7 Bootcamps where you can get an inside track on how to be...