Winnipeg .NET User Group – Jan 2011

Next week I am presenting a session at the Winnipeg .NET User Group. The session is titled “Taking your Windows Phone 7 application to the next level with Tombstoning”

Unlike previous versions of Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 does not allow 3rd party applications to run in the background. Because of this your application needs to react to various life cycle events to provide the user with a seamless experience. Luckily Silverlight isolated storage has your back. In this session learn about the app life cycle and what storage patterns you can use to keep your users happy.

When

From: January 26, 2011 05:30 PM
To: January 26, 2011 08:30 PM

Where

Street: One Lombard Place, Floor 17
City: Winnipeg
Province: MB
Country: CANADA

User Group Event Link

Registration Link

Sneak Peek

Here is a basic outline of what the session will be on:

  • Overview of the Windows Phone application lifecycle
  • Lifecycle Events
  • Storage types
  • Isolated Storage examples
  • Transient Storage examples
  • Application patterns

Depending on the audience, a bulk of the presentation may be an in-depth look into Caliburn.Micro which is a MVVM framework that has been ported to Windows Phone 7

IE9 Pinned Sites

One of the great features of Windows 7 is the ability to pin applications to the taskbar. Pinned applications had the ability to define right-click menus or jump-lists which contained recent files, relevant tasks, and other links. Now more than ever web sites are turning into full web applications. IE9 provides a way to add this pinning functionality to your web site. In order to pin a web site you need only to drag the favicon or site tab down to your Windows 7 taskbar.

A user drops the tab on the taskbar to pin the site to the taskbar

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