Category Archives: Events

MVP in Client Application Development !

Events

A couple of days ago I received an email telling me I got the MVP Award for 2010 ! I’ve been waiting a little bit before I wrote this post because I invited my coworkers at home in order to celebrate this yesterday and I wanted to keep the surprise 😀

This is the very first year I got the MVP award. I’m very proud to have this recognition from Microsoft and it is giving me new ideas for the future. I started this blog almost 2 years ago now and I’d never imagine I’d get so much feedback about it. My MVP award is also recognizing my work in the French community (on the developpez.com website) or for conferences I’m giving in my daily job.

The MVP award will be also for me the occasion to have pre-release of Microsoft software (but I’ll not be able to publicly give information about them since I’ve just signed an NDA) and also to enjoy a free MSDN-Premium subscription !

For more information about the MVP Award Program you can check-out:

Thanks to all my readers also who are giving me feedback and support.  I’d also like to thank my co-workers who are helpful in my daily job. I’m very lucky to be part of this very nice team. By reading posts before they go public (Charlotte, Fred !) or discussion about software programming in general (the whole Pythagore group!) I get cool ideas about things I want to share. So thank you every one for supporting me 🙂

[WP7] Windows Phone 7 challenge for french readers !

.Net, Events, Silverlight, Windows Phone

A couple of months ago, the french programming website www.developpez.com organized an event to discover Windows Azure programming (I wrote a blog post about it here).

A similar event has just been launched for Windows Phone 7 development at challenge-windowsphone7.developpez.com

(tr: “Let’s go !” “World cup ?” “No… Windows Phone 7 challenge by developpez.com !”)

The challenge is made of 6 steps:

  1. Tools : download and install the required tools
  2. Quizz : first basic quizz
  3. Silverlight development
  4. Silverlight and push notifications
  5. XNA
  6. Quizz : advanced quizz

Each winner will have the following gifts:

This kind of challenge is really helpful to discover a new technology the funny way ! I hope I’ll get my “I Love Windows Phone” tee-shirt to wear it this summer 🙂

Mix10 : first Windows Phone application using Blend4

Events, Silverlight, Windows Phone, ,

You’ll need not more than a couple of minutes to download and install all the tools needed to create your first Windows Phone application using Blend.

Here is a tour in images:

Welcome in Blend 4

Discovering new projects templates in the Welcome dialog:

It must be quite familiar to you if you’re working with WPF or Silverlight

Choosing a target

Launching the app in the emulator

App.xaml file has all the resources for the Windows Phone theme

Let’s go now and play with the tools 🙂