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I admit it! I am not a gamer. Or at least I have not been one since my last game of Zaxon. But things are about to change.  Between Kinect for XBox 360 coming out and all of the games that are going to be on the now Wp7, I am sold.

Check out this mini montage of WP7 games.

Or go to the engadget story to get the lowdown on how cool the experience is on the WP7.  Judge for yourself and let me know what you think. http://bit.ly/9E2TZi 

Daniel Egan – DotNetDoc

Are you still deciding if WP7 is going to hit big?  I know I am quite obviously bias but it has been great to see the way in which people are embracing the phone even though it is not yet finished.   In this Engaget Show, check out the comparison between Blackberry OS6 (first half of video) vs WP7.  Its been a while since people have said ANYTHING good about a windows phone. 

Tell me what you think. And if you are in my area, come to my next event and I will show you in person.

Happy Coding -- Daniel Egan (DotNetDoc)

October 28-29, 2010  >>  Redmond  (Microsoft Campus)

PDC is coming and you don’t want to miss this historic PDC – this is the first time we’ve ever held the event on the Microsoft campus.  Because we’re on campus this year, attendees will enjoy unprecedented access to campus facilities, Microsoft developers and product teams.  The venue and audience are smaller, which opens up a lot more opportunities for an amazing event. 

This event is selling out quickly.  Once we hit top capacity, we will be unable to accommodate any further registrations, so register now to secure their spot at the event. We’d hate to have unhappy customers that assumed they’d be able to attend because they “always register a few weeks before the PDC”. 

To learn more, check out this video by event owner (Jennifer Ritzinger) and keynote owner (Mike Swanson) host a 10-minute, behind-the-scenes preview of content and event activities. Get the inside scoop on why this is going to be an exciting PDC and the type of content that attendees and viewers can expect.  http://bit.ly/cx0vAP  .

If you have been following Brandon Watsons blog at http://www.manyniches.com I am sure you have come across his posts about Windows Phone 7 Device requests.

http://bit.ly/bPTASL

In a follow up post, he stated that distribution will be through the Evangelists in the field.

         “but there’s a whole team of evangelists who will be getting the phones to developers.” ( http://bit.ly/dwnovQ )

Guess what?  That's me!!  Well, one of them anyway. To be clear, I only have a few right now so I want to make sure that as many people as possible are able to test their WP7 App on a real device.  I may have more in the next few weeks but we will see.  By the way, for those that do not know, I am a Developer Evangelist in Southern California, so you must be in this area.  But don’t worry, I can help point you to your local developer evangelist that may be able to help.

So, if you want to test your app on a device contact me at any of the following :

Daniel (dot) Egan (at) Microsoft (dot) com

@DanielEgan on Twitter

or leave a comment here on how I can contact you.

Once you do, I will send you an email with more info.

Happy Coding!!

Daniel Egan – DotNetDoc  - The Sociable Geek

Click HERE for the video.

The launch of the much anticipated Windows Phone7 (WP7) is just around the corner and with it will be the launch of the Windows Phone MarketPlace for WP7.  Now is the time to get the application you have been thinking about for years under way.  There is absolutely nothing stopping you. The tools are completely free and can be found here http://bit.ly/9J7icb 

Starting next week we I will begin a series of how-to blog posts/screen casts (depending on the amount of code) that will take you through everything you need to know to get started on WP7.  Among other things we will cover Not necessarily in this order :

• The tools and environment
• Working with the Emulator
• Push Service \ Live Tiles
• Location Based Services
• Launchers and Choosers
• The other Sensors (Accelerometer, Proximity,  Compass, etc..)
• Multi-Touch
• And More
• Unlocking and Installing on the phone
• Marketplace and Developer Resources

Start looking for these posts coming next week.  If you have a request for a post or a question you need answered feel free to post a comment or send me an email.

Happy Coding

Daniel Egan

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Microsoft today announce that they will release a RC (Release Candidate) for Visual Studio 2010 via Scott Guthrie’s blog.  This means that there will be another release for you to play with before the March 22nd release of VS2010. That is really cool!!  

To read more about the announcement go to http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/12/17/visual-studio-2010-and-net-4-0-update.aspx

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  Hey SoCal Developers, this is something that you don’t want to miss.  If you are looking to get up to speed on Microsoft’s Cloud Services – Windows Azure, then this is the event for you!!  Its FREE!!

This is  3 Day class that is absolutely FREE!!  Tuesday, December 15th – Thursday December 17th – 9am to 5pm each day. This is a instructor led / hands-on event.  (You will need to pay for parking. Parking is NOT validated)

Description :

The Microsoft Developer & Platform is pleased to announce a Metro Instructor Led Training event focused on Developers covering the Windows Azure Platform, for Microsoft Partners and customers. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, the workshop will focus on three key services of the Windows Azure Platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services.

This event is targeted at partners and customers who have projects that they are potentially looking to deploy to the Windows Azure Platform.

Attendee Prerequisites :

This workshop is aimed at developers, architects and systems designers with at least 6 months practical experience using Visual Studio 2008 and C#.

Agenda Topics

× An introduction to Windows Azure

× Working with Windows Azure storage

× An introduction to SQL Azure

× Building applications with SQL Azure

× An introduction to .NET Services

× Building solutions using the .NET Service Bus

Date/Time/Location:

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:00 AM - Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft Technology Center - Irvine

3 Park Plaza
Suite 1600 TBC Irvine California 92614
United States

To register please use the following link :

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032428626&IO=He5wNESuIe2vbmj2%2bI%2bSiw%3d%3d

Or go to http://msevents.microsoft.com and use Event ID : 1032428626

Did I mention its FREE!! See you there!!

Are you looking for an easy way to get a Azure Token??  Why don’t you  get and Azure Token and win on contest at the same time??  CodeProject.com is giving away a kindle as part of their Windows Azure in December contest.

First, it is the easiest way to get an Azure token AND you could end up winning a prize too. How great is that?

Just go to http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Azure/ and follow the simple directions. You will get your Azure token instantly.  But you better hurry, as of this writing, they only have 393 Azure tokens left to give out for the contest.

Good Luck, and if you develop an Azure application, I would love to hear about it.

Happy Programming

DotNetDoc – Daniel Egan

On Monday I spoke to about 50 developers about Visual Studio 2010.  This is a BIG release, not only was the whole IDE rewritten in WPF but it utilizes the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) to make VS2010  a platform as well.  The community can now create and/or download templates, and IDE enhancements from inside visual studio.  I will be doing some deep dive talks soon on templates and MEF that you will not want to miss.

Below you will find the slides and the code I used in the presentation.

Visual Studio 2010 has a new look. Besides the new logo, it has a couple of new options when you are starting VS2010 for the first time.

• Web Development
• Web Development (Code Centric)

This seems to be part of a shift to recognize and help the two different types of web programmers that now exist.  First we have the developers that prefer to work in the preview, dragging and dropping controls onto the page, and then tying them into the back-end.  The “newer” web developer, which ironically develops more in the Classic ASP style, stays mostly in the HTML preferring to hand code each table, section, and control (Code Centric).  Part of the reason for this is the new ASP.Net MVC framework that inherently puts you in this frame of mind.  In addition, VS2010 also help in this area with new HTML snippets (type in TB and hit tab tab), to increase the speed at which you can “hand code” (sort of a mini Code Rush).  In essence, when you select the Code Centric options, it strips away (or hides) all of the property windows.

Which way do you code? Are you a Code Centric developer?

Let me know.

Doc – Daniel Egan

This week I traveled through the Southland (LA, Orange County, San Diego) talking about some cool new things coming out from Microsoft. (Windows 7 Multi-touch, Silverlight RIA Services, SketchFlow). Below you will find the slides and demos for the talk.

Enjoy.

Daniel

You can find the files for the demos HERE. For the RIA Services Demo,  you will find the step by step snipits in the Presentation folder and the Required installs in the SetupAndResearch folder. 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Daniel