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IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps: Updated Schedule

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Here’s an updated schedule for the IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps taking place across Canada in the next few weeks.

They cost nothing to attend – all you have to do is register, and you’ll get some great training on building sites and apps for Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7!

A Lap Around Internet Explorer 9 and HTML5
A look at IE9’s support for the troika that collectively goes by the name “HTML5”: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. You’ll see how standards compliance and the resulting “same markup” will make life good for both developers and users and how that same markup runs faster on IE9 thanks to the newer, faster JavaScript engine and hardware acceleration.

Enhancing Pinned Sites with Internet Explorer 9
IE9’s “pinned sites” feature makes web apps feel more like desktop apps by letting users add website to the taskbar and start menu and let developers add custom context menus to pinned site icons, provide visual notifications on the task bar with icon overlays and even add custom buttons on the default thumbnail preview. This session will show you how to best use this feature and also cover IE9’s developer tools.

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Recipes
You’ve read the introductory material and written “Hello World” on the Phone, and you’re now thinking of starting a bigger project. You’re now asking this question: “How do I do X on Windows Phone?”. This session is the answer. You’ll learn all the recipes for building blocks of applications, which you can use, modify and combine in your own Windows Phone 7 apps.

Windows Phone 7 XNA Kickstart
Haven’t you always wanted to write a videogame, but could never get started? This is your chance. This session will show you the basics of XNA, the game development framework for Windows Phone (and the Xbox 360 and Windows too!). You’ll get your feet wet writing 2D videogames, learn some game coding techniques and get you need to start you on your journey as a game developer.

Here’s where and when they’re taking place. Remember, they’re free – you just have to register!

 

Where and When

Which Sessions

Downtown Toronto
Microsoft Canada
Ernst & Young Tower, 12th floor
(222 Bay Street)
Friday, March 18th
Click here to register

WP7 sessions only

Mississauga
Microsoft Canada
(1950 Meadowvale Boulevard)
Friday, March 25th
Click here to register

IE9 and WP7 sessions

Vancouver
BCIT, Burnaby Campus
(3700 Willingdon Avenue)
Saturday, March 26th
Click here to register

IE9 and WP7 sessions

Edmonton
Art Gallery of Alberta
(2 Sir Winston Churchill Square)
Tuesday, March 29th
Click here to register

IE9 and WP7 sessions

Ottawa
National Arts Centre
(53 Elgin Street)
Wednesday, March 30th
Click here to register

IE9 and WP7 sessions

Montreal
Microsoft Montreal
(2000 McGill College Avenue, Suite 450)Monday, April 4th
Click here to register

IE9 sessions only

Winnipeg
IMAX Theatre Winnipeg
(393 Portage Avenue)
Tuesday, April 5th
Click here to register

IE9 and WP7 sessions

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.