Hawaii Intern XAPfest – Intro Session #1: Silverlight for Windows Phone and Programming Language? Check. Platform? Check. Design language? Check. Speed? Uhh…

  • Shawn Henry and Oren Nachman | WP PM – Dev Plat, Windows Phone Test and Operations

ABSTRACT:
Hawaii Intern XAPfest – Intro Session #1: Silverlight for Windows Phone
In this talk, we will cover Silverlight and its capabilities and will discuss how it fits into the Windows Phone development architecture. We will cover XAML, controls, events, animations, and data binding. There will be demos throughout. Attendees are encouraged to BYOL (bring your own laptop) with the latest Windows Phone Developer Tools (http://create.msdn.com) installed so they can follow along.

ABSTRACT:
Programming Language? Check. Platform? Check. Design language? Check. Speed? Uhh…
You know how to write amazing Windows Phone apps with great functionality and tantalizing visuals, but can you excite your users fingers? We’re cover the basics of performance on a mobile device and then delve into the underlying platform covering some key performance bottlenecks and how to approach them.

Speaker Details

Shawn Henry is a Program Manager in the Windows Phone Developer Platform team.

I’m an Australian (so you won’t understand me) SDET (so you’ll fall asleep) working on performance (I’ll speak way too fast) for the WP Developer Platform. I get way too excited about my job, so you probably don’t want sit in the front row (I’m also kind of corny, in case you couldn’t tell).

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