I want to briefly talk about the main activities in the field of Windows Phone, which are taking place at the moment. Some of these activities we do - wp7rocks, but there are many others.
So, if you are an application developer for Windows Phone from
Russia , then you can take part in the contest of New Year's applications. Organizer - Microsoft Russia, prizes - brand new Nokia Lumia. More details on the link
here .
If you are a
developer from Ukraine , then you can take part in the Ukrainian competition of applications for Windows Phone, which is
organized by Microsoft Ukraine and the portal wp7rocks in honor of the anniversary of the latter. Prizes - phones running Windows Phone.
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More contests and promotions:
here and
here from AdDuplex , the
contest of software projects Windows Phone Jazz .
Telerik offers developers their RadControls for Windows Phone 7. They offer two open source applications to demonstrate how to work with their controls:
Tasks and
Exchange Client . They also publish walkthroughs how these applications were created.
Another company Telerik published a document "How to sell your Windows Phone application." Download the document
here .
You can also win a license to RadControls for Windows Phone 7
in exchange for one tweet .
Another of our initiatives is called
“Hold Five! 5 questions to developers of applications for Windows Phone! " . If you want to tell about yourself and your applications, answer 5 questions:
- Tell us a little about yourself. How long have you been developing mobile apps? Why did you decide to develop applications for Windows Phone?
- Tell us more about your Windows Phone apps.
- What can you tell about the development process, tools, etc.? What difficulties and problems did you have and how did you solve them?
- How do you assess the chances of Windows Phone in the global market?
- Your plans for the future.
Send your answers to msugvn [at] gmail.com and we will publish an interview with you.
For developers, we have several series of articles:
31 days with Mango (Osman Gafarov,
@osgafarov ), a
series of articles on SQL CE (Mikhail Galushko,
@devlanfear ) and starting another
series on PhoneGap (Mikhail Galushko,
@devlanfear ).
Activity:
We also soon plan to have another Windows Phone hackathon in Kiev. A report on the previous hackathon in Lviv can be read
here . Wishes on the format, themes, places and etc. please inform me in any way possible.
And here is another
note with a list of sites on wp7 around the world.
I really hope that our and not only initiatives will find their audience.
Thanks for attention!
PS If you have interesting links & news on Windows Phone initiatives, please share in the comments.