Inspiration Tour Resources
Yesterday saw the first of our Inspiration Tour dates kindly hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University.
I thought it would be a good idea to pull together a bunch of resources on the technologies we talk about as a central reference for those who attend the tour or are interested in Silverlight, Embedded, XNA, Popfly or Surface.
Silverlight - silverlight.net
- Getting started with Silverlight (Includes links to all required downloads) - https://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
- Expression Homepage - https://www.microsoft.com/expression/
- Expression Blend Forum (Non MS) - https://expressionblend.com/
- Silverlight videos on Channel8 - https://channel8.msdn.com/Search/?TagName=silverlight
- MIX07 Sessions - https://sessions.visitmix.com/
- Silverlight on the web - https://silverlight.net/Showcase/
- Imagine Cup UI Design Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=18
XNA - creators.xna.com/
- Getting started with XNA (Includes links to all required downloads) - https://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill/archive/2007/09/03/getting-started-with-xna.aspx
- Starter Kits (Full games with source) - https://creators.xna.com/Education/StarterKits.aspx
- Tutorials - https://creators.xna.com/Education/Tutorials.aspx
- XNA team blog - https://blogs.msdn.com/xna/
- Dream-Build-Play - https://dreambuildplay.com/main/Default.aspx
- Imagine Cup Games Development Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=12
Windows Embedded - microsoft.com/windows/embedded/
- Getting started with Embedded - https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/aa731285.aspx
- Windows Mobile - https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/
- Windows Embedded blog - https://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/
- Tahoe Micro Framework board - https://www.embeddedfusion.com/default.aspx?id=90
- Imagine Cup Embedded Development Competition - https://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=11
Popfly - popfly.ms
- Introduction to Popfly - https://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill/archive/2007/07/12/popfly-on-ukstudentzine.aspx
- Popfly in 15 minutes video - https://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=43f66911-2acf-468a-b455-1fe4636d3553
Surface - microsoft.com/surface/
- Prototype PlayAnywhere MSR video - https://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/PlayAnywhere%20final%201Mbps.wmv
Hopefully these resources will give you everything you need to get started with these technologies. If you have any questions about any of these technologies then please comment on this post.
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