Windows Phone Camp Documentation

The information below is related to the Windows Phone Camp events currently running over the next two weeks.

You can still attend the events being hosted at the following locations.

Key Actions:

• View content below and develop your own app
• Publish your free app to the Windows Phone Market Place by mid-December to go in the draw to win one of 6 HTC Surround Windows Phones.
• The best 4 apps will receive a HTC Surround Phone and  will be invited to a job interview with either Marker Studio or Intergen
• To be in the draw, apps must be free, an email must be sent  to nzedu@microsoft.com with a link to the app and a short description explaining what it does.

Below is a list of links to demos and documentation.

Link to documentation folder - https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=aa89ee3e9403b4bd&resid=AA89EE3E9403B4BD!1677 

Demo 1 – Pig’s Can’t Fly – No Code – A small physics based app

• Angry Birds Clone Demo - http://studentguru.gr/b/dt008/archive/2011/10/16/tutorial-video-creating-a-small-angry-birds-clone-for-windows-phone-in-5-minutes.aspx
• Physics Library for Expression Blend - http://physicshelper.codeplex.com/
• Fix error 0x81030120  - deploying application to device - http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/85176/513172.aspx#513172
• Fix error when uploading application to market place - The [NeutralResourceLangauge] attribute is missing on the entry assembly - http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/87638/525986.aspx 
• Pigs Can’t fly demo source code located in SkyDrive Folder – WindowsPhoneApplication17.zip 
• Go Deeper
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Windows-Phone-7-XNA-and-Farseer-Physics-And-source-and-a-game-and
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Creating-a-Shuffleboard-Game-using-Silverlight
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Creating-a-Pinball-Game-in-Silverlight-Using-the-Physics-Helper-Library--Farseer-Physics
  • http://www.farseergames.com/
  • http://www.andybeaulieu.com/
  • http://www.spritehand.com/silverlight/3.0/droppypop/droppypop.htm
  • Game built with physics engine - http://MagnetsGame.com

Demo 2 – PunchIt

• Applications and slides available at - https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=aa89ee3e9403b4bd&resid=AA89EE3E9403B4BD!1677
• http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/quickstarts/Detect_Movement_(Accelerometer)

Demo 3 – “Windows Phone + Windows Azure = ON SALE IN NZ”

• Get the app – http://j.mp/OnSaleNZ (version 1 http://youtu.be/0krk2w8-cn0)
• Basic Twitter Client – http://j.mp/wp7101
• Hands On Lab using the pivot control – http://j.mp/WP7pivotlab
• Services – http://j.mp/RESTwcf
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone – http://watwp.codeplex.com
• http://microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/
• Windows Azure Free for 90 days - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/
• a .NET code library that allows you to parse "out of the web" HTML files - http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/
• My Slides - https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=f44e163aca292b27&resid=F44E163ACA292B27!474&parid=undefined 
• Outliers - Book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
• We Are All Weird - Book - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/we-are-all-weird.html

Demo 4 – Lets Get Ready to Rumble – Leverage Live Tiles and Metro Themes

• Adding Multitasking to your Application (includes Secondary Tiles) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh220584
• Background Agents for Windows Phone http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202961(v=VS.92).aspx
• Slide Deck available on Sky Drive - https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=aa89ee3e9403b4bd&resid=AA89EE3E9403B4BD!1677

Demo 5 – “Sexy Birds: Making a Fast, Simple, Good Looking Twitter App with Expression Blend”

• Good 3-part demo on basics: http://expressioniq.com/?p=2653
• Good video from MIX11: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/DVC03
• Video covering more general Blend stuff: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Mango-Jump-Start/Mango-Jump-Start-04-Using-Expression-Blend-to-Build-Windows-Phone-Interfaces

Demo 6 – Make it Pretty With Expression

• Download Expression Studio Design Suite – www.dreamspark.com
• Icon Tool Image - http://wpiconmaker.codeplex.com/
• Pool of images free to use for Windows Phone Development only - http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/windowsphone/hh544699

Demo 7 – Paint Me App

• Application available at - https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=aa89ee3e9403b4bd&resid=AA89EE3E9403B4BD!1677
• http://windowsphonegeek.com/tips/drawing-in-wp7-2-drawing-shapes-with-finger

Market Place & Bizspark

• Get your free Market Place Account from www.dreamspark.com
• Navigate to http://create.msdn.com to set up your Market Place Account
• Content located in SkyDrive folder.