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• Windows Phone 7 BootCamp Coming Soon!

  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... Posted Sep 01 2010, 11:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, Houston, Tulsa, Austin, development, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, Little Rock, wp7, wp7dev, BootCamp

• Windows Phone 7 and Azure, Better Together

  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... Posted Sep 01 2010, 08:22 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Dallas, Events, development, texas, cloud, wp7, wp7dev

• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application

  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... Posted Aug 27 2010, 11:26 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, development, wp7, wp7dev, #mvvm, MVVM, #mvvmlight

• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile

  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... Posted Aug 26 2010, 05:42 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, wp7, wp7dev, Students

• Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend

  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... Posted Aug 23 2010, 10:09 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Dallas, Events, development, texas

• InputScopes for Windows Phone 7

  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... Posted Aug 17 2010, 04:31 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, development, wp7, wp7dev, inputscopes, sip

• Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles

  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... Posted Aug 16 2010, 01:25 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, wp7, windows phone 7, wp7dev

• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings

  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... Posted Aug 13 2010, 03:22 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, development, wp7, Videos

• Fix: Push Notifications in WP7

  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... Posted Aug 06 2010, 11:42 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, wp7, fix

• NWA CodeCamp

  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... Posted Aug 05 2010, 03:19 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Events, CodeCamp, nwa, development, arkansas, cloud, ITPro, HoL, HandsOnLabs

• Foursquare for Windows Phone 7

  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. ... Posted Aug 05 2010, 10:20 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, wp7, Open Source, foursquare

• MVVM in Windows Phone 7

  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... Posted Jul 30 2010, 09:37 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, development, texas, TechFest, wp7, MVVM

• Time for Dallas TechFest!

  We’re only 2 weeks away from the 3rd annual Dallas TechFest!  The schedule is set, the bags are being packed and the speakers (including me!) are polishing up their talks.  Dallas TechFest has something to offer everyone, regardless of your... Posted Jul 20 2010, 04:22 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, development, texas, TechFest, cloud, ITPro, wp7, wp7dev

• Upcoming WP7 Training

  Jump start your development of Windows Phone 7 applications by attending Windows Phone 7 JumpStart. This free virtual live class, comprised of four instructor-led 3 hour sessions, will guide you in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform... Posted Jul 15 2010, 11:45 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, development, wp7, wp7dev, Online

• Windows Phone 7 Beta Bits are LIVE!

  Go get them right now from http://developer.windowsphone.com or the Microsoft Windows Download site!  There are LOTS AND LOTS of improvements in the Beta bits, so make sure you give them a try.  Be prepared that there are also some breaking... Posted Jul 12 2010, 03:07 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, wp7, wp7dev