Dear Windows Mobile Marketplace Patron,

At the very outset we the team of Windows Mobile Marketplace would like to THANK YOU for your support to this engagement. We appreciate and acknowledge your patronization.

As shared with you earlier we are moving into the next phase of the engagement and hereby we share with you the announcement of the 2 days WORKSHOP on Experiencing Windows Mobile 6.5 Application Development.

As part of this Workshop we also are planning to organize an interaction using Live meeting with the Microsoft Windows Mobile Product Marketing Team to help you gain maximum.

Backgrounder

Mobile application development is growing fast, and Windows Mobile is at the forefront with over 18 million phones shipped last year and many more cutting-edge Devices on the way. Mobile Application Development companies and Visual Studio developers therefore have tremendous opportunities in this space. Experience for yourself from expert in this area what it means to Develop for a Windows Mobile phone and how it leverages your existing coding experience and takes it to new heights. In this track, we’ll go through the Critical fundamentals and the Core of building mobile applications. You’ll learn how to set up Visual Studio with the latest SDK and device emulators, and you’ll see how to build, deploy and debug applications. We’ll also explore capabilities that offer the richness of the desktop for mobile devices. The Core intent is to share with you our richness of having experienced Windows Mobile Application Development.

Module  1: Experiencing the Core of Windows  Mobile 6.5  Development

In this module, we will discuss and experience how to install the development tools in the correct order. Once you have all the tools installed, we’ll Walk you through the experience of developing Windows Mobile 6.5 application.

Orientation towards Mobile Application Development

Orientation of Windows Mobile and Windows Mobile 6.5 Platform

Orientation of  mobile application development

Platform Synergy

Enterprise Readiness

Device Emulators

We’ll begin this module with an orientation of different releases of Device Emulator. You will learn about specific features of Device Emulator 2.0 and Device Emulator 3.0. You will also get a guided tour around Cellular Emulator which allows emulating cellular connectivity in conjunction with Device Emulator.

Developers tools for mobile apps

Introduction to developer tools for mobile apps

SDKs

Emulators

Visual Studio based development

Debug

Deploy

Module 2 : Experiencing Managed Development and Mobile Windows Forms Development

This module will start with an overview of the Core of Windows Forms Development, including information about different out of the box available User Interface Controls for both Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional and Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard devices. We will then move on to the challenges around developing a single application that can run on different devices with different form factors and how applications can adapt to different device capabilities by isolation of specific code and creating a factory model (define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate).  

As part of new features of Device Emulator 3.0 you will also learn about using Device Emulator Manager to control individual Device Emulators, either from inside Visual Studio 2008 or from within a desktop application through a COM object.

Managed Development

Introduction to .NET Compact Framework 3.5

Windows Mobile Forms Development

Creating Desktop Projects to for installing CAB files to WM Device

Implementing Universal Download Capabilities

Programmatically Determining WM Device Type

Using existing COM Objects in WM CF Applications

Module 3 : Experiencing  User Interface(s) developments

In this module, we’ll look at different possibilities for using User Interface Controls. You will also learn how to re-use existing functionality that is available inside your own application.

Creating User Interfaces

• General UI considerations

• Designing the UI

• Associating an application with hardware buttons

• Managing Display Orientation Changes

• Creating Form and Process based Splash Screens

• Creating Localized Applications on WM Devices

• Hiding standard device UI elements in a CF Application

Module 4 : Experiencing  Data and Services  related development

You will experience the core of dealing with data using the latest in Data Access technology viz.  LINQ , Maps and other application services on Windows Mobile Devices. You will get information on how to access data programmatically inside your own managed applications. When working with data and mobile applications, SQL Server CE is a great way to quickly get productive.

Data and Services

• Querying SQL Server CE Databases using LINQ

• SQL CE Data Synchronization

• Implementing Bing Search in a device application

• Displaying Bing Maps in a device application

• Using MapPoint Web Service on WM Devices

• Using Windows Communication Foundation

• to safely send messages to offline devices

Module 5: Experiencing widget Development

Windows Mobile devices offer a rich user experience and a wealth of features for device users on the move. Windows Mobile widgets are applications written using Web development techniques; they connect to Web services to obtain and display data. Widgets can deliver business data, weather information, news updates, traffic maps, and even slide shows of online photo albums. The flexibility of JavaScript and Web development techniques of dynamic mark-up and style sheets, coupled with the new widget objects mean that Web developers can produce rich applications with the appearance of native Windows Mobile applications.

 Widgets

• The WM Widget Engine

• Developing a WM Widget

• Creating the User Interface

• Using the Widget JavaScript Objects

• Creating Widget Menus

• Calling AJAX Code

• Packaging the widget

• Creating the Manifest

• Deploy and Run

Module 6: Experiencing Security and Deployment aspects

When developing Windows Mobile applications, there are different security policy considerations. This talk will cover some of the prominent security and deployment considerations for applications to run on Windows Mobile devices and how to make use of certificates to make applications trusted.

Security and Deployment

• Checking for necessary security privileges

• Developing Test Certificates to sign an application

• Using Visual Studio 2008 Device Security

• View and manage list of certificates installed on WM Device

• Deploying an application to a real device

Windows Mobile Marketplace

• Application Submission Guidelines

• Policy Guidelines

• How to register and submit apps to Windows Mobile Marketplace

For Windows Mobile Marketplace Team

  Kshipra Kathe.  +91.9987097552