Welcome!

Welcome to the official Mobility Touchdown team blog. This is where the instructors and content developers will be publishing new information about the labs, content and installation issues. We'd also like to use this blog to communicate with all the attendees of these workshops.

If you don't know about Mobility Touchdown, the workshop is tailored for architects and developers who are / are thinking of building applications that run on Windows Mobile devices. We'll share the key concerns that other developers face today, show how you can overcome problems and share the learning we've collected over the years implementing these solutions for very large customers around the world.

This is what we're covering in the workshop:

• Mobile Development Tools (Visual Studio, SDKs, Yes WM6 SDK included)
• Mobile Data Strategies
• Patterns & practices: Mobile Client Software Factory
• Mobile Line of Business Solutions Accelerator
• Mobile Test Driven Development
• Visual Studio for Mobile Development
• Orientation Aware Control
• Debugging mobile applications
• Mobile Managed Code and APIs
  • Pocket Outlook
  • Status
  • Configuration
  • Telephony
  • SMS
  • Forms
• Mobile Data
  • Usage
  • Optimization
  • Merge Replication
  • XML
  • SQL Server Compact Edition
• Mobile Data Resiliency
  • Data Access and Subscription Block
  • Connection Monitor
  • Disconnected Service Agent
• Mobile Security
  • App security
  • Platform security
  • Password Auth Block

You can find out more about the workshop from here. Watch the page often to find out if new cities come on line. I have more in the works, like New York, Washington DC etc but not confirmed yet.Here's the full list of cities that we're working on:

• Seattle, WA
• Mountain View, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Chicago, IL
• Memphis, TN
• Detroit, MI
• Cincinnati, OH
• Dallas, TX
• New York, NY
• Washington, DC
• Phoenix, AZ
• Las Vegas, NV
• Reading, UK
• Sydney, Australia
• Shanghai, China
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Columbia
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Spain
• Netherlands
• India