Description:

Silverlight and XNA. On a phone! Windows Phone 7 presents us with an exciting new development paradigm and a great opportunity to leverage your .NET experience on this new platform. Whether or not you’ve developed for Windows Mobile before, there is a lot to learn about this new platform. You’ll leave this session with a basic understanding of the Windows Phone 7 platform architecture, knowledge of how to access the various input mechanisms, phone APIs, and services, as well as insight into the tools used to build applications and games for this platform . We’ll leverage Expression Blend and Visual Studio to build a basic, but useful, application to demonstrate the concepts discussed.