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I had a great time speaking at the Device Developer SIG (D2SIG – http://d2sig.org) last night on “Designing for Windows Phone 7”.  Seems a lot of folks also had Windows 8 on their mind so we were able to have a good conversation around Win 8 as well.  As promised, here is a link to my slide deck:

Link to Slide Deck

Also here are the links that I included in my slide deck:

Windows Phone Developer Blog
http://tonyc.me/wp7devblog   

   
Mockup Links
http://tonyc.me/wp7sketch
http://tonyc.me/wp7templates
http://tonyc.me/wp7mockups
http://wp7sketckflow.codeplex.com

Well I just made it back from MIX 11 and it was truly an amazing time.  If you were unable to go, make sure you check out http://live.visitmix.com for links to all of the sessions and keynotes.  I meet a ton of great people this week and got to reconnect with some old friends.

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I had a great time presenting at Houston Tech Fest this weekend.  As promised, below is a link to all of my presentations and the demos we covered during them.

The one change is, that due to size, the MIX 10 Collection data is not included in the PivotViewer demos.  I have moved the collection to be hosted and will post another entry detailing the post.  However, I did update the Uri’s in the projects to point to the new location of the data.

I really enjoyed the comments and questions during and after the sessions.  Please feel free to let me know if you have additional questions and things you would like to go over.

Houston Tech Fest Presentations

Sessions :

• Intro to Silverlight PivotViewer
• Intro to Windows Phone 7
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications in Silverlight

[Update 07/25]

There are two important things to point out on this post (thanks to the guidance from the MVVM Light toolkit author Laurent).  First, if you are solely using the messsaging component and not using the DispatcherHelper, then there is no need to Initialize it.  The second is that your message class does not need to inherit from the MessageBase class.  You can, in fact, send any class thru the messaging system.

These two changes simplify this post quite a bit.  Which, in my opinion, only validates the power and flexibility of the toolkit messaging.

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Being an avid Silverlight developer, I love the MVVM pattern and the benefits of using it.  That being the case, I have used several different frameworks to help with the MVVM plumbing.  However, I keep coming back to my favorite, GalaSoft’s MVVM Light Toolkit.  This toolkit does a great job of handling a lot of the MVVM plumbing code for you, making it much easier to get your applications up and running using the MVVM pattern.

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