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Free Telerik Webinar: Consuming OData in Windows Phone 7

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 10-11 a.m. EST (check your local time)

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Guest Presenter: Shawn Wildermuth 

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Source: Beth Massi's Blog

Tonight I’m speaking in San Francisco on one of my favorite topics, OData. Here’s the info: Creating and Consuming OData Services for Business Applications. (By the way, the Open Data Protocol (OData) is a protocol for querying and updating data over the web. If you’re not familiar with OData I encourage you to check out www.odata.org and come to my talk tonight!)

Since I’ve done this talk a couple times I thought it would be a good idea to add some new demos. One that I thought would be fun would be using OData in a Windows Phone 7 application. It turns out that it’s actually pretty easy do once you have all the right tools and libraries.

Looking for opportunities to meet some MVPs and Microsoftee’s? Then join the MVP Summit After Party that the Seattle Silverlight User Group will be hosting on March 2nd.

You will also have the chance to meet in person our colleague and Silverlight MVP Emil Stoychev who will be talking about using ODATA in Silverlight. The attendees will not only learn some useful information but will also have the chance to get one of the new SilverlightShow Tshirts.

Date and Time: March 2nd, 2011 7pm
Location: Bellevue Square Mall - Microsoft Retail Store

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SilverlightShow is official sponsor of Seattle Silverlight User Group!

In number 12 of his Silverlight 4 tutorial series, Mohamed Mosallem is building a WP7 app that attendees can use to submit feedback.

Source: Programming The Life

It’s very important to collect the attendees feedback to help us improve the future sessions/events we might organize, we can go ahead and implement this functionality in the RegistrationBooth application. but in this post we will take a different approach, we will implement a Windows Phone 7 application that attendees can use on their phones to submit their feedback. Luckily for us Windows Phone 7 uses Silverlight as its development platform (along with XNA), the Silverlight version on Windows Phone is not the same one as the desktop version, think of this as a compact version that fits the phone capabilities.

Here are the slides and samples from the talk of Thomas Martinsen and Martin Jespen about Silverlight patterns and framework at the monthly Silverlight Usergroup meeting in Denmark.

Source: XAMLGeek

I the first part of the talk, Martin showed the differences between MEF and Unity and wrapped up by showing some of the possibilities in PRISM. [...]

In the second part of the talk, I showed how to expose an OData feed using a WCF DataService and access the data from a Silverlight application.

Shawn Wildermuth recently recorded a couple of series of videos for MSDN's Data Dev Center to help people get up and running with OData.

Source: MSDN

These videos give you an introduction to the basic use of WCF (ADO.NET) Data Services with different data sources and different application types.

In this post, Thomas Martinsen shows how to expose data from an existing data source and access the data in a Silverlight application.

Source: XAMLGeek

OData (Open Data Protocol) is a web protocol for querying and updating data build upon web technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub and JSON. OData can be used to expose and access data from a several types of data source like databases, file systems and websites.

OData can be exposed by a variety of technologies – first and foremost .NET but also Java and Ruby. On the client side OData can be accessed by .NET, Silverlight, WP7, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and Objective-C just to mention some of them. This makes OData very attractive to solutions where data need to be accessed by several clients.

In the previous part, Mike Ormond walked you through accessing the Twitpic OData feed to retrieve a collection of images for a particular user. In this post, he will pay more attention to displaying the actual images.

Source: Mike Ormond's Blog

In this post we’ll jazz things up a bit and display the actual images. The picture on the right is the sort of thing we’re shooting for.

Fundamentally, nothing really needs to change. We’ve got the data, all we need do it change the presentation a little bit.

Telerik announced a free WP7 Webinars series with Shawn Wildermuth and Mark Arteaga as guest lecturers.

Source: Telerik Blogs

We’ve invited Shawn Wildermuth, Mark Arteaga and our Windows Phone Evangelist Evan Hutnick in a special Windows Phone 7 Free Webinar Series covering how to build apps for the third screen, how RadControls for Windows Phone can help you be more productive and how to use OData for data access.