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Windows Phone: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Headed?

On Wednesday, October 27th, Joel Johnson will be presenting on the past, present and future of Silverlight development on Windows Phone. We will meet at 6:30 pm at 5 Seasons Brewing at the Prado.

Bio

Joel Johnson is a Device Application Development MVP and is currently transitioning in the Windows Phone Development MVP program. He has extensive experience with Windows Mobile, Silverlight and XNA. He has also been the caretaker of one of the rare early Windows Phone devices for several months.

Abstract

With Microsoft's official WP7 launch with AT&T Monday, we should soon be seeing signs of the much anticipated Windows Phone marketing blitz. The Windows Phone marketplace is now open for early submissions and AT&T has announced three new phones which will become available in the US in early November.

Now that we are at the end of the year-long rush by Microsoft to get a phone out before Christmas, Joel will help us to take a moment to see how we got to this point. The Microsoft phone strategy was once guided by a desire for a feature rich device targeted at the enterprise. It is now a guided by a desire for a user-experience rich device targeted at consumers. Moreover, the old developer platform has not only been overhauled but completely replaced with a Silverlight + XNA development platform. Joel will show how these two technologies work together on the phone, demonstrating native XNA features as well as how we as Silverlight developers can tap into the XNA APIs to develop rich Silverlight applications for the Phone.