The even took place at Boecillo (Valladolid) and there was more than a hundred people to hear about this new mobile operating system by Eduardo Ortega, Jose Antonio Gallego (our Five Flames blog mate expert in WP7) from CIM and Isabel Gomez from Microsoft Ibérica.This event is oriented to developers (obviously) and UI/UX designers too, excepting the Key Note and the Introduction to Windows Phone session that was oriented for all publics.
The keynote was presented by Isabel and Eduardo and talks about Windows Phone, its evolution to Mango, and the main improvements that this new version of the OS bring us.
After key note, Eduardo and Jose Antonio gives an introduction about programming for Windows Phone 7 both Silverlight Applications and XNA Games technologies with a little demo for each one. The use of Microsoft Blend studio for designing a rich UI/UX interface like a Flash app and how it's integrated with Visual Studio was awesome for most of the people who saw that create rich visual experiences was easier in Windows Phone 7 than other platforms.
Next session, also by Eduardo and Jose Antonio, talks about data access with SQL Server CE, accesing to web services and the new feature of WP7: Live Tiles. A "widget" like tile attached to an application in which you can show updated content.
In the break after this session the event organizers give us a free brunch for our hungry stomach and afterwards Eduardo Ortega talk us about Windows Phone advanced capabilities included in Mango: gyroscope, compass, accelerometer, camera and augmented reality with GART which could be used or implemented in a Windows Phone app/game with only a few lines of code.
After lunch Eduardo's session talks about multitasking in Windows Phone and the features asociated to this functionality: Tombstoning, dormant, background Agents and Fast Application Switch and how to use it from code.
Next to a little break that prepared us to final sessions Jose Antonio developed from start to end a complete app named "ZombSquare" in which was included every features seem in this event: Silverlight, XNA, 3D Models, Sensors, Data Access and Augmented Reality. The code of this app will be uploaded to codeplex after the Roadshow in order that atendees could experiment by themselves.
The final session, by Jose Antonio and Isabel, talks about uploading apps to Microsoft Marketplace, ROI, promoting apps and everthing useful to obtain cash for publishing our apps and games.
At last, there was a little contest in which Microsoft gives 5 Silverlight books by Josué Yeray and 5 Windows Phone mobile devices.
Globaly this event was very dinamic and the speakers answer people's questions at every moment. I highly recommended you this event for every developer/designer but expecially if you have previous knowledge in .Net technologies there will be very easy that you could begin programming for mobile phones.
The next places and dates that Windows Phone Roadshow 2001 will take place are:
- 20 y 21 de Octubre – Madrid (Registro 1er día) (Registro 2º día)
- 24 y 25 de Octubre – Barcelona. (Registro 1er día) (Registro 2º día)
- 27 de Octubre – Sevilla (Registro)
- 3 de Noviembre – Bilbao (Registro)
- 7 de Noviembre – Santander (Registro)
I hope there will be new devices by Nokia and other manufactures for this Chrismats so this technology could grow up.
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