Windows Phone App Event in Eindhoven

Two days ago the biggest Windows Phone 7 developer event to date in the Netherlands took place. With the official launch of WP7 in our country and the recent addition of Nokia phones to the line-up developer interest is rising. A total of about 300 attendees showed up for a full day of sessions including a basic introduction the dev platform and tools, more advanced topics like push notification and fast application switching and a session on app monetization. The sessions where presented by Maarten Struys, Fons Sonnemans and myself. A big thank you goes out to Microsoft’s Matthijs Hoekstra, the Dutch WP7dev evangelist, who organized the event at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.

Here’s the full program for the day:

09:30-10:30	Matthijs Hoekstra & Tom Verhoeff	Windows Phone 7.5 Overview
10:30-11:00	break
11:00-12:00	Fons Sonnemans	Building Windows Phone Apps met Silverlight
12:00-13:00	lunch
13:00-14:00	Maarten Struys	Windows Phone 7.5 Fast Application Switching, Thombstoning en Multitasking
14:00-14:15	break
14:15-15:15	Fons Sonnemans	Live Tiles en Push Notifications, breng je applicaties tot leven
15:15-15:30	break
15:30-16:30	Tom Verhoeff	Windows Phone Marketplace,            hoe verdien je geld met je applicatie
16:30-17:30	Borrel

Here’s a list of interesting links for those who attended my sessions:

• Entry on Matthijs Hoekstra’s blog containing all content
• Windows Phone App Hub – THE place to get started
• Distimo Monitor – The tool I demonstrated to analyze your apps performance
• Dreamspark – Microsoft’s program to get free software and App Hub access to students
• Surfspot.nl & Slim.nl – Required for Dutch students to access Dreamspark
• Windows Phone 7 for Absolute Beginners – Great video series to get started

Thank you all for attending the sessions. If you any questions related to my presentations or getting started with WP7 development in general you can use the comments, find me on Twitter or use my contact form