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Welcome to South Bay .NET User Group
  A Community of .NET Developers of the South Bay.
  
The SouthBay.NET User Group is a Forum for .NET developers from the South Bay area of California.  The mission of the organization is to share knowledge and experience in .NET technology with individuals who are keen in learning, sharing and growing their Microsoft .NET knowledge and capabilities. 
   
   

Our next meeting will be a special full day MSDN event.  Due to limited seating, please Register now!

Upcoming LA Code Camp III @ USC from Oct 23-24.  For details please click here!
 

Next Meeting:
Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM - RSVP

FREE Admission, Parking, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and swags for every attendee.

 
TOPIC:
Special Full Day MSDN Event - Windows Phone 7 Unleashed

Windows Phone 7 is HOT! Come check out Windows Phone 7 Unleashed for everything you need to know to develop for WP7. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or you’re just starting with .NET development, there’s something in it for you.

The first half of this deep dive event is lecture and hands on lab. At the half point mark of the day, you’ll have a solid foundation for building WP7 applications.

The second half of the day is going straight to code. Build the best app and have a chance to win a $500, $200 or $100 American Express gift card!

There will be Windows Phone 7 handsets at the event to test on.

In order to deliver the best possible experience for attendees, seating at this event is VERY limited. Register now!

Event Prerequisites:
  1. This is a bring your own laptop event. You must have a PC (Windows 7/Vista) that is able to connect to wireless internet.
  2. Download these tools BEFORE the event.

Session 1 – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Programming.
In this session, we start with a discussion of windows phone, the architecture changes made from 6.5 to 7.0, the hardware specifications and then move into the beginnings of building a WP7 application including :
  1. Sensor overview
  2. Application life cycle
  3. Splash screen and the importance of 1/19 seconds loading
  4. Files associated with project template
  5. Application Bar
  6. Live Tile
  7. Application Icon

The session will end with a brief discussion of the Windows phone 7 Marketplace before the entering into the HOL.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:
  • Set-up
  • Live Tile
  • Splashscreen
  • Home Screen with Application Bar

Session 2 – Connecting to Services
In this session, we will discuss how Cloud Services help to bring power to the phone. We will be binding to a rest based services and show how to search and display the information received. In this session we will also talk about Navigation, passing information between screens, simple page animations while working with List and detail information.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:
  • Search Screen
  • Display Screen
  • Detail Screen
  • Additional Application Bars

Session 3 – Recording Data
In this session we will be working with the Camera to capture and crop photos, record audio files, take notes, saving location, sharing (sending emails and SMS messages – and if time permits sending to twitter or FB) and saving everything using isolated storage. We will discuss tombstoning and how it effects your application process, including the when, where and whys of saving state.

HOL – The screens that will be built during this session are:
  • Add New Wine
  • Record Audio
  • Picture Capture and Crop
  • My Wines

Session 4 – XNA on Windows Phone 7 with Sam Stokes
In this session you will learn game development on Windows Phone 7 using XNA

 

SPEAKER(S): 

Jeetu Maker

Jeetu Maker is a Solutions Architect based in Los Angeles with over 14 years of hands-on experience in building large scalable enterprise applications for several Fortune 500 global companies in US, Europe & India. He is primarily focused on Microsoft technologies. He founded the South Bay .NET User Group in Torrance and is actively involved with local developer communities in Southern California.


Sam Stokes

Sam Stokes is an Academic Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. He has worked in technology since a very early age, his projects have included, Global Position Satellite and the MD-11 Commercial Airliner Auto-Flight System. He has owned his own consulting firm with over 20 employees during the technology boom. At Microsoft, Sam worked on the IndyMac DataCenter project as a Technical Account Manager. After his stint at IndyMac he switched to working within the academic community in Southern California, and has assisted in the development of over 200 curriculum modules


LOCATION:
American Honda Motors
Bldg 100, # 100-1E-13
1919 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, CA 90501
Driving Directions
Click map to get a window with an interactive map.

 

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For our next meeting on Saturday, September 18, 2010:

  

Your FREE admission includes TWO raffle tickets.

You will receive two additional raffle tickets for every NEW member you get along with you.

All our prizes will be raffled out using our custom Raffle Application built on Silverlight 2.0


  
Our Meeting Scedule
The meetings will be scheduled second Thursday of  every month at a time convenient to most. The topic and speaker will be be communicated as soon as they are confirmed. Please make sure that you are in our mailing list and that you RSVP immediately as seats may be limited based on our venue. 
  

Other Attractions

We will distribute free refreshments and also feature a limited number of raffles depending on the extent of sponsorship available to us. If you are interested in partially or fully sponsoring an SouthBay.Net User Group event, please visit our Sponsorship link for for more details and contact information. 


Other User Groups

Please visit our friends from SoCal region:
 1) LA .NET Developer's group
 2) LA C# .NET group
 3) SoCalDotNet Group