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András Velvárt shared more details on the session he'll be presenting at MIX: The Tale of Two Apps: Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace, as well as on his presentation at ROCK event in Orange County.

Source: dotneteers

The Mix session will be about the lessons learned while designing and publish and tracking Distinction’s excellent Cocktail Flow app and our SurfCube 3D Browser. Here is a more detailed description:

The Tale of Two Apps: Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace

“Cocktail Flow” and “SurfCube 3D Browser” - two of the top applications in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Both have received feedback like “my favorite part of this app is showing it to all my buddies who have iPhones, Android phones, or Palm phones.” This talk is a unique opportunity to hear the real story of these apps, how they made it to the top of the charts and what happened since their launch.

In this episode of Silverlight TV, UX legend Bill Buxton discusses how integrated devices with things that "just work together," UX, and touch might all be in our lives to a much larger degree in the near future.

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

This is a short conversation with Bill where he touches on his thoughts about the next version of Surface, UX, and the new UX Lightning series at MIX11, which he compares to "speed dating." Bill also drops an interesting nugget—he's used nothing but slates/tablets since Nov 2002, and he even wrote his popular book on a tablet!

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Find out who are the lucky winners in our Eco Contest that are going to MIX11 in Vegas! 

Thanks to our judges for helping us with this contest! Thanks to everyone who participated, voted and supported us in this contest! And of course, special thanks to our sponsors CompletIT and Telerik!

Grand Prize Winner and First Runner-up | Community Vote Winners

Q. Hi Peter. Congratulations on becoming the first runner-up in our Eco Contest, with your application ‘Do you twig?’! Our community already knows you as one of SilverlightShow article authors – you are currently running quite a popular series of articles on XNA for Silverlight developers. How did you decide to join our contest?

A. As with most private projects I'm working on, it was a very spontaneous decision. I read about the contest and perceived the idea of creating awareness for ecological problems as a great and sensible plug (I had completely missed 2010's contest).

Q. Hi Jey. Congratulations on winning the Grand Prize in our Eco Contest, with your application ‘The Lost Leaf’! Please introduce yourself to the community at SilverlightShow – your country, job, experience with Silverlight, anything you think might be interesting to our community.

A. I am Jey, natively from India, but currently residing & working in the UK. I hold a Master’s in Information Systems & a Bachelor’s in Engineering. After finishing my post-graduation in 2009 & until recently, I worked as a Software Developer with specific interest on UI for a renowned Telematics firm.

Mike Taulty and John Papa are on the road again at MIX11 next month for a reprisal of their Silverlight Bootcamp.

Source: John Papa's Blog

Last year we had a full house and discussed Silverlight 3 … hard to believe that was a year ago!This year we’ll be talking about Silverlight 4 and 5. We’ve decided to shake things up a bit this year and talk about topics that we feel that are crucial to building solid apps with Silverlight. Me being the data guy at heart, of course this involves solid practices for data access, binding, validation, templating with data, retrieval of data, REST, WCF, LINQ, serialization, isolated storage, OData, RIA Services, and visualizations of data. Probably much more, but I think you get the idea.

Each week for the next 4 weeks John Papa will be giving away 1 free ticket to the 3rd annual Silverlight MIXer party held in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during MIX11.

Source: John Papa's Blog

Due to limited budget and fire codes invitations are always hot for this party. This year I’ve decided to offer 4 free tickets, 1 per week, via a contest on my blog. So if you are interested in attending, here is your chance!

Below you will find a list with short descriptions of the MIX11 Windows Phone 7 sessions that have been announced till now. Note that more sessions are coming soon and this is not the final list.

Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp 
Speakers: Grant Hinkson & Adam Kinney
Info: In this workshop you’ll see a complete Windows Phone app built from the ground up. We’ll walk from File > New Project all the way through app submission in the marketplace.

Flickr API: Tap into Billions of Photos for Windows Phone 7 
Speaker: Markus Spiering
Info: This talk will introduce the mobile app, highlight some of the complex design decisions, and provide insights into the Flickr API methods. Attendees will learn how to enrich their applications using Flickr's rich content via the Flickr APIs.

XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games  
Speaker: Rob Miles
Info: Ever wonder what it takes to create a top game for Windows Phone 7? Rob will show you how easy it is to get XNA programs running, whether you are a C# and Visual Studio newbie or a grizzled veteran of .NET. You will find out how to use the touch and accelerometer sensors and how to add a smattering of physics to your games.

All Thumbs: Redesigning an Existing UI to Suit Windows Phone 7  
Speaker: Ward Bell
Info: The phone is not a tiny desktop. We thought porting a desktop Silverlight application to WP7 meant selecting a feature subset and reformatting screens to a smaller footprint. That’s doesn’t work. Some of the data are the same; some business operations are the same. But what the user does on a phone is different.

The Tale of Two Apps: Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace  
Speakers: András Velvárt & Bálint Orosz
Info: “Cocktail Flow” and “SurfCube 3D Browser” - two of the top applications in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Both have received feedback like “my favorite part of this app is showing it to all my buddies who have iPhones, Android phones, or Palm phones.” This talk is a unique opportunity to hear the real story of these apps, how they made it to the top of the charts and what happened since their launch.

Who Would Pay For That Feature? Adding Analytics to Your Windows Phone 7 Applications  
Speaker: David Poeschl
Info: At the end of this session, attendees will know how to instrument their application and track those features most important to their success including how to configure offline-caching, automate opt-in logic, and exception reporting. With effective mobile analytics, there’s simply no excuse for not knowing exactly what your users care most about.

Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance  
Speaker: Jeff Wilcox
Info: Been wondering how to tweak that extra bit of performance out of your WP7 app? Come learn how to analyze the performance of your Windows Phone application and make it faster using top techniques and the new profiling tools.

Application Design for Windows Phone  
Speaker: Megan Donahue
Info: In this session, we’ll share with you the foundations of great Metro application design for Windows Phone, and how to use them to build outstanding applications that will stand out and get noticed… for good reasons.

Creating Windows Phone Applications Using Expression Blend  
Speaker: Unni Ravindranathan
Info: If you want to create applications for Windows Phone that stand out from the rest, you should be using Expression Blend. Come to this session to learn how to take full advantage of the rich platform features, efficient workflow and tools to showcase your unique design skills.

Expert Lessons: Top Tips to Building a Successful Windows Phone Application  
Speaker: Stefan Wick
Info:This session will share the lessons learned working with the first one hundred Windows Phone premier applications.

Making Money with your Application on Windows Phone  
Speaker: Todd Brix
Info:There’s tremendous excitement and enthusiasm around mobile application development, and with good reason; recent studies show that > 35% of cell phone users in the US use mobile apps daily. The opportunities are enormous, but how do you stand out amongst all the competition?

Check all 42 sessions announced till now >>

During the MVP Summit our colleague Emil Stoychev met Microsoft Sr Technical Evangelist John Papa and discussed with him the upcoming MIX11 event and the Open Source Fest at MIX that he is organizing.

Read John's blog post about the Open Source Fest | See the Open Source Projects That Will Be Featured at MIX11