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PRC09

Mobile Development on Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile devices provide a platform to take your Windows development knowledge into the real world. This full-day preconference tutorial covers the entire lifecycle of a Windows Mobile application including defining an appropriate architecture, tools selection, testing, and debugging. Specific tips on how to optimize your application for the small screens, lower CPU speeds, intermittent connectivity, and power management issues related to mobile development are provided. The session provides an update on the latest changes to the Windows Mobile platform including versions 6.1 and 6.5 and also includes data centric topics such as SQL Server Compact, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and data synchronization techniques. Learn how to write cool applications for Windows Mobile devices in this intensive, example-filled session for developers and architects.

Doug Boling, Jim Wilson

Pre-Conference Session, 5/10/2009

WMB203

Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1: Overview

System Center Mobile Device Manager is the new Windows Server-based mobile device management and secure mobile network access solution. It is targeted at Windows Mobile-based devices to enable policy-based security management tied to Active Directory Group Policy. This session provides an introduction to the product and how to mitigate some of the deployment challenges and risks.

David Bottomley; Gary Ide

5/11/2009, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

WMB201

What's New in Mobile Messaging: Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Office Communicator Mobile

Unified communications is bringing the next level of connected communications and productivity to an increasing number of mobile users. Come learn about the exciting new features in Communicator Mobile and Outlook Mobile and how they will make mobile workers more productive with Microsoft Exchange Server "14" and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Adam Glick; Quentin Miller

5/11/2209, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

WMB301

Creating Location-Aware Applications for Windows Mobile Devices

More and more Windows Mobile powered devices ship with integrated global positioning system (GPS) hardware. Since Windows Mobile devices are typically used on the road, it makes a lot of sense to add location awareness to your applications. In the upcoming future, Maarten Struys foresees location-aware applications moving beyond traditional navigation software. Adding location awareness to all kinds of social networking applications could be the next big thing for Windows Mobile devices. In this sample-filled session, Maarten shows you how you can make use of the GPS Intermediate Driver to retrieve GPS information from inside managed applications. Learn how to use the FakeGPS utility to test location-enabled applications without needing access to a physical GPS device and also learn how to feed FakeGPS with your own recorded location information. Of course, you will also see a real location-aware application, based on the Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service, on a Windows Mobile Device in action.

Maarten Struys

5/12/2009,

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

WMB01-INT

Management Lockdown of Windows Mobile Devices

You can completely secure a Windows Mobile device without deploying expensive third party applications. In this session we show you how to bar viruses, malicious and unsupported code from installing and running on the device. In addition, we look at various out-of-the-box devices and analyze their threat surface. Last, we describe all Windows mobile application security threat surfaces and how to manage them.

Dave Field

5/12/2009, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

WMB307

Windows Mobile Security: Requirements, Features, and Differentiators

When data resides on small, attractive, easily-lost devices, the threats against that data and the device proliferate rapidly. How can you best protect your information while simultaneously granting the access your users demand? Geir Olsen and Steve Riley begin by examining typical requirements for protecting information, common threats against data and devices, and then describe how Windows Mobile helps satisfy the requirements both with built-in features and complimentary Microsoft products. They also examine how Windows Mobile compares with its competition.

Geir Olsen

5/12/2009,

2:45PM - 4:00PM

MGT205

What Management Means for Mobility Customers

Every day, thousands of AT&T business-to-business sales reps talk to companies of all sizes about their mobility needs, their mobility strategies, and the solutions these customers would like to see from mobile operators and their partners. This session provides insight into how AT&T is partnering with Microsoft to address the management and security concerns of their customers and how IT professionals can take advantage of these key learnings and the customer engagement models evolving around management of mobile devices.

Abhi Ingle; Chandra Stevens

5/13/2009, 8:30 AM – 9: 45 AM

WMB302

Distributing and Monetizing Windows Mobile Applications through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile

This session presents developers with a unique opportunity to understand the next generation of Windows Mobile application distribution: Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Windows Marketplace will revolutionize distribution of Windows Mobile applications, games, and content, and is designed to solve the two largest problems of the Windows Mobile consumer-focused developer community: distribution and monetization. This session provides application developers with the insights, tools, and processes necessary to begin distributing and monetizing their applications on the Windows Mobile platform. Developers can expect to walk out of this session with a clear understanding of the value proposition of the Windows Marketplace, the knowledge required to architect and build their mobile applications for global distribution, and a clear picture of the processes required to distribute their applications to a global community of Windows Mobile consumers. This session primarily focuses on the application distribution model for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, and includes specific detail around application code signing, Windows Mobile application certification, localization, and monetization.

Daniel Bouie; John Bruno

5/13/2009,

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

UNC305

Enabling Anywhere Access with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Interested in increasing end-user productivity by providing anywhere access to Office Communications Server 2007 R2? Learn about the latest enhancements to Communicator Web Access (CWA) and Communicator Mobile. This session dives deep into planning, deployment, and administration aspects of Communicator Web Access and Communicator Mobile.

Stephanie Ferguson; Martin Choate

5/13/2009, 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM

WMB310

Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager: Lessons from the Field

This breakout session is a deep-dive discussion around the lessons and best practices learned in actual customer deployments of Mobile Device Manager, led by the Microsoft Consulting Services Global Mobility Practice. Specifically, this session covers how to overcome common objections and concerns, shows architectural workarounds (if needed) for deployment of Mobile Device Manager, how to work with IT teams to correctly deploy System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM), common MDM topologies, and best practices around design and deployment of MDM.

David Bottomley

5/14/2009,

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

WMB401

Adding WCF to Windows Mobile Applications

Is Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) the "New .NET" or just a fancy way of doing inter-process (and inter-machine) communication? This question serves as the point of departure for this session for presenting best practices in Windows Mobile and WCF programming using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5. Attend this session to gain a better understanding of the WCF object model, to learn about the machine-to-machine calling pipeline, and a look at creating a custom, Microsoft Systems Management Server transport. Along the way, this session provides a summary of how WCF on devices compares with WCF on desktop systems, and also an example of enabling secure WCF transactions. Security is an issue because WCF on Windows Mobile implements a subset of the security features found in the full .NET Framework.

Nickolas Landry

5/14/2009,

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

WMB403

Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition Ultimate Performance Tuning

This session equips the advanced Windows Mobile developer with invaluable performance tuning techniques to get the most out of SQL Server Compact Edition. A deep dive into the query processor, storage engine, and the managed provider for SQL Server Compact Edition is followed by specific query tuning techniques and how to get the absolute best merge replication and sync framework performance in your Windows Mobile data synchronization architecture.

Darren Shaffer

5/15/2009,

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

WMB02-HOL

Eternal Application: How to Build for the Future

Mobile devices are a booming market with new and different devices coming out every day. In this lab, learn how to develop Windows Mobile applications that have the longevity to keep working well into the future and that also have the flexibility to capitalize on the opportunities that become available as new device designs evolve. A variety of longevity- and flexibility-related topics are covered ranging from fundamental techniques such as adherence to security best-practices and user interface adaptability, to more advanced techniques such as input capability adaptation and dynamic feature abstraction. Upon completion of this lab, you will be familiar with the techniques necessary to assure that the applications you build today are still the applications of tomorrow.

N/A

Hands-on-Lab

WMB05-HOL

Introduction to Building Line-of-Business (LOB) Applications on Windows Mobile

In this lab, learn how to reuse your existing Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET Framework skills to develop a line-of-business (LOB) application for a Windows Mobile-based device. Begin with the basics of building, deploying, and debugging a Windows Mobile application using Visual Studio 2008. By using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and Windows Mobile 6 SDK, you are then led through the steps of developing the application to effectively address LOB business needs on a mobile device. Complete the application by using Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 to provide persistent storage and query capabilities. Upon completion of this lab, you will be more familiar with the tools and technologies used in developing Windows Mobile applications.

N/A

Hands-on-Lab

MGT05-HOL

Device Management with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Management of hand-held mobile devices is becoming more popular and is much requested by customers. This lab walks through the configuration of the Configuration Manager site to support Windows Mobile devices. Install and use an emulator to provide a Windows Mobile device for deployment and management, including discovery, inventory, software distribution, and settings management.

N/A

Hands-on-Lab

TTK14

Patterns & practices Mobile Application Blocks v.Next

"The Microsoft patterns & practices group is working on the next versions of the Mobile Application Blocks, the successor to 2005s' Mobile Client Software Factory.

The new release will be leaner, easier to use and has some exciting stuff that will help mobile architects and developers adopt good architectural practices in their mobile apps. The Mobile App Blocks help you make mobile apps that are better structured, more testable - better mobile software!

In this Tech Talk, you'll learn what is in the new Mobile App Blocks, how to use them, the benefits they bring and the plans for release."

Andy Wigley

TTK30

How can developers participate in Windows Marketplace for Mobile?

This session presents developers with a unique opportunity to understand the next generation of Windows Mobile application distribution: Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Windows Marketplace will revolutionize distribution of Windows Mobile applications, games, and content, and is designed to solve the two largest problems of the Windows Mobile consumer-focused developer community: distribution and monetization. This session will provide application developers with the insights, tools, and processes necessary to begin distributing and monetizing their applications on the Windows Mobile platform.

John Bruno

TT07

Can Windows Mobile UIs look as good as the iPhone? - Yes, they can!

"The Apple iPhone has set a new benchmark for the appearance and usability of mobile apps. There is a widely held perception that Windows Mobile apps cannot compete in this respect, but there is a new generation of apps coming along that look just as great and support touch gestures.

True, the standard controls in the Visual Studio Toolbox look a bit 'Windows 95-ish', but armed with some fairly simple programming techniques, a little knowledge of how controls get painted on the screen and the skills of a decent graphic artist, Windows Mobile developers can create applications that look great - and enjoy the far superior productivity that developing with the .NET Compact Framework gives you."

Andy Wigley