Thanks to everyone that came out for the St Louis .NET User Group meeting last night.  I’ve posted all of my materials for anyone that wants to see the slides or the code.

• Windows Phone 7 trivia slides
• Getting Ready for Windows Phone 7 slides
• Gas Mileage source code on Codeplex

I’ll be speaking at the next meeting of the St Louis .NET User Group.  The theme of the meeting will be Windows Phone 7, and yes, that will be as awesome as it sounds.  See you there!!

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Windows Phone 7 is coming soon – are you ready to write applications for this exciting new platform? All the fun these days is mobile and no one else can offer a developer experience like Microsoft and the Windows Phone 7 team. Don't be the only developer on your street not ready for this platform when it launches.

Come spend some time with Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend and learn everything you’ll need to know to get started writing your killer application for the Windows Phone. We’ll skip the fluff and dive right into writing a Silverlight-based application for Windows Phone 7. Topics will include application architecture, navigation, application bars and menus, application icons and live tiles, isolated storage, web service consumption, and tombstoning best practices.

My demo application of choice for Windows Phone 7 presentations is an application that lets you track your gas mileage when you fill up your car the gas station.  The source code for the application is now available on Codeplex at http://gasmileage.codeplex.com.

Gas Mileage for Windows Phone 7 is a pretty straightforward application that hits some of the more basic programming concepts for Windows Phone, including

• The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) presentation pattern
• Page Navigation
• Isolated Storage
• Custom Application Icons
• Application Bar Buttons

Check it out, and look for Gas Mileage in the Windows Phone Marketplace in October.

Here are the code demos from my two presentations at this year’s Day of .NET.  Thanks to everyone that came out – especially those of you that attended the final session of the day on Saturday afternoon.

• Download Google Contacts Explorer code
• Download Windows Phone 7 Gas Mileage code

Also, the slides from my Windows Phone 7 talk are available at slideshare.

Several people asked about the source code from my devLink presentation “The Power of Silverlight: Building a Google Contacts Explorer”.  If that was you, then here you go!

Download source code

The 2010 St Louis Day of .NET is fast approaching, and if you have yet to register, you better get on it.  This years event is shaping up to be fantastic, with 90 confirmed sessions so far.  Visit the website to check out all the sessions, learn more about the conference, and register to attend!

I’ll be presenting these sessions

The Power of Silverlight: Building a Google Contacts Client
This presentation will showcase two of Silverlight's most powerful assets: the ability to create rich user interfaces and the ability to consume data from the web.   We'll walk through building a rich Google Contacts client that consumes Google's RESTful AtomPub Data API.

Writing Your First App for Windows Phone 7
This presentation will provide everything you need to know to develop your first working application for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series.  We’ll cover the application architecture, tools, phone-specific features and APIS, and use Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 to write a fully functioning application for Windows Phone.

See you there!

I'm speaking tomorrow (oops, it's past midnight) today at the Iowa Code Camp on Windows Phone 7 and Inversion of Control with StructureMap.  Should be a blast. The standard presentation goodies are available at http://www.codebadger.com/blog/page/Iowa-Code-Camp-2010.aspx

If you’ve ever wondered how many of my presentations you could listen to without going crazy, then devLink 2010 will be your chance to find out.  I’ll be presenting on these topics.

• Giving Effective Technical Presentations – We all know what makes a bad presentation.  Now come found out what makes a good one, and how easy it is!
• The Power of Silverlight: Building a Google Contacts Client – Silverlight is awesome at two things – gorgeous UI experience and killer data consumption.  Let’s put the two together and build a Google Contacts client.
• The Easy Life: Inversion of Control with StructureMap – Why makes thing hard on yourself?  Learn how to manage dependencies the easy way with IOC and StructureMap.
• Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services – Bring on the Silverlight for business apps.  We’ll learn how to use Expression Blend and Visual Studio in harmony to create a rich internet business application.

Should be a blast!  Get your ticket now at http://www.devlink.net/GetMyTicket.aspx

I’ll be presenting my Inversion of Control talk at this year’s Iowa Code Camp.  This presentation walks through applying the Dependency Inversion principle to a make-believe Sprocket store application.  We’ll talk through migrating the code from a static spiderweb of dependent code into a beautiful and maintainable code base using OO principles and StructureMap.

Check out the slides if you want a sneak preview: http://www.slideshare.net/codebadger/inversion-of-control-with-structuremap

Update: I'll be adding presentation materials and resources at this page during the code camp.