Windows Phone 7 Firestarter Next Tuesday

If you are interested in developing apps for Windows Phone 7 and want to hit the ground running, you won't get a better opportunity than the Windows Phone 7 Firestarter event next Tuesday, 8/24/2010!

For more information and to register, go to this link.

There are limited seats available, so register soon!

This is the PERFECT preparation for our contest coming up in October!

Phone 7 Contest

Don't forget GGMUG's Phone 7 development contest!

You can develop an app either with Silverlight or XNA, and the app voted best at our October meeting will be crowned the winner. We have some exciting prizes lined up too!

The rules are simple:

• You must attend the October meeting.
• You must have attended at least one previous meeting.
• You must demo your app at the October meeting.
• Winners will be decided by a vote of the members present that night.

You need to let me know ASAP if you want to enter. So far I only know of one person who is definitely working on an app, so his odds of winning are 100%! There will be multiple prizes, so your odds of winning a cool prize are extremely high.

jeffa

GGMUG Alert: August Meeting 8/12/2010

MEF and MVVM for Silverlight

Don't miss our August meeting on 8/12/2010. We'll have a great speaker talking about an exciting new feature in .Net 4.0: MEF.

With the release of Silverlight 4, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) became a first class citizen of the .NET Framework 4.0. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) has quickly become the most popular pattern for developing Silverlight applications. Learn the benefits of the MVVM pattern and how to leverage MEF to implement the pattern for your line of business applications. Jeremy Likness will cover how the framework and pattern work together to provide a powerful foundation for enterprise applications and cover many “real world” scenarios ranging from asynchronous service calls and dialog boxes to navigation and dynamic modules in the context of MEF and MVVM.

Jeremy Likness is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP who works as Project Manager and Senior Consultant for Wintellect with 15 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has worked with software in multiple verticals ranging from insurance, health and wellness, supply chain management, and mobility. His primary focus for the past decade has been building highly scalable web-based solutions using the Microsoft technology stack with a focus on Silverlight since version 2.0. Prior to Wintellect, Jeremy was Director of Information Technology and served as development manager and architect for AirWatch, LLC, where he helped the company grow and solidify its position as one of the leading wireless technology solution providers in the United States by managing the development of their product portfolio that includes public HotSpot solutions and a management console for enterprise grade wireless networks, mobile devices, and their consumers. A fluent Spanish speaker, Jeremy served as Director of Information Technology for Hispanicare, where he architected a multi-lingual content management system for the company's Hispanic-focused online diet program. Jeremy accepted his role there after serving as Development Manager for Manhattan Associates, a software company that provides supply chain management solutions.

All our usual meeting stats apply:

• 6:30 PM
• Gwinnett Technical College
• Building 100
• Room 401

Contest!

Don't forget out Windows Phone 7 programming contest! You can write either a Silverlight or XNA app that runs on the Windows Phone 7 emulator for a chance to win some great prizes.

The rules are simple:

• You must attend the October meeting, plus one prior meeting
• You will demo your app at the October meeting
• Winners will be decided by attendee voting at the October meeting

See You There!

jeffa

Files From Ritesh

Great Meeting Last Night!

We really had a great meeting last night. Both Pom and Ritesh did a fantastic job with their presentations.

Ritesh has passed along the sample code for his WCF Routing talk. You can download the ZIP file here.

Thanks Pom and Ritesh for a good time had by all.