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While I do a weekly “events this week” post each week that highlights events coming from Community Megaphone , I want to take a few minutes to talk about some events you may not be aware of, and highlight why you should consider attending them: Wintellect Azure Deep Dive (Reston, VA – 05/20/11) - REGISTER...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest: Webinar: Technical Debt Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:00 AM, Online Technical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar...

Looks like some folks have been given the green light to talk publicly about their experience as early users of preview Windows Phone 7 devices. MobileCrunch, Engadget, and Gizmodo have all posted previews of Windows Phone 7 this morning, and the takeaway from them is overwhelmingly positive, despite...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar...

Then you MUST read the following post from Brandon Watson, in which he discusses just how many people are asking for them, and more importantly, lays out some guidelines for how YOU can get noticed by the Windows Phone 7 team (hint: DO EPIC SH*T), and perhaps get yourself a phone in the process: Ways...

OK, so I’m a couple days late on this post. But two of the most important things this week are yet to occur. This would be my presentation at RockNUG tonight on Windows Phone 7 , and of course the Northern Virginia Code Camp this Saturday in Reston, VA . Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone...

Aimee Gurl has posted a sample showing one way to implement panoramic navigation for Windows Phone 7 using behaviors in Expression Blend. The post includes a full tutorial on laying out your controls, as well as a link to the behavior library that makes it all work, so go check it out !

At the Orlando Visual Studio 2010 Launch event, I did the session on Windows Phone 7, and one of the questions that came up was whether the emulator supported multi-touch. At the time, I answered that it only supported a single touch, but that is incorrect. If you have a monitor that supports multi-touch...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest. I’d like to highlight in particular the two opportunities folks have to meet Scott Wiltamuth from the Visual Studio team, who will be in Vienna, VA at Caparea.NET on...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar...

If you are interested in starting to explore the Windows Phone 7 development environment, and you also want to use Visual Studio 2010 RTM, please take a look at this post by Charlie Kindel BEFORE you install either set of bits. Read the whole post for details, but the bottom line is that the Windows...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar...

It’s quite long, but worth the read, so set aside some time and dig in to get their impressions post-MIX . Good stuff!

I’d love to post a thorough, informative, and thoughtful summary of my experience at MIX10 (which was a ton of fun, and was probably the most information-packed MIX in the 3 years I’ve attended), but my fellow DE, David Isbitski , has done such a wonderful job summarizing that I’m just going to point...

From my colleague Ashish Jaiman : ISV Software Architecture Workshop May 20 th 2010 Microsoft Technology Center, Reston VA We are organizing an exclusive Software Architecture Workshop (SAW) for enterprise and ISV architects. The event will be an intense and interactive one day OpenSpace type conference...

Though the parties are still going on, the sessions are long done. The big announcements included the release of the Silverlight 4 RC, Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools , Netflix app coming for WP7, and more. You can check out some of the resources for Windows Phone 7 Series development on MSDN . Day 2...

Titles and detailed abstracts have been posted for the Windows Phone sessions at MIX10, which kicks off next week. Check them out here: http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions/Tags/WindowsPhone Lots on Windows Phone, of course, including an introduction to the platform, Silverlight development, and more…featuring...