This 3 days workshop will teach you building and testing custom applications for Windows Phone 7.5. Participants will learn how to:

• Run applications from Visual Studio in both the Emulator and on a device.
• Customize project settings for unique branding and main page design.
• Use the core Silverlight concepts and techniques as they relate to Windows Phone 7.5 .
• Work with XAML syntax, resources, styles, templates, data binding, change notification, and MVVM.
• Create a layout using Canvas, StackPanel, WrapPanel and Grid elements.
• Use menu controls available for Windows Phone 7.5, including the ApplicationBar and context menu.
• Work with navigation objects.
• Use single and multiple touch gestures to tap, hold, drag and flick elements on the phone.
• Consume industry standard data types XML and JSON from RSS, REST and OData services.
• Integrate Windows Azure cloud computing with Windows Phone 7.5 applications.
• Design in Expression Blend to build custom controls, user controls, and templates.
• Use the Windows Phone marketplace test kit to market your application.