Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 8th and 9th, 2011.
Gary Campbell
About Gary
Gary has over 20 years of software industry experience working in a variety of fields including insurance, marketing, medical, telecom, real estate, financial and manufacturing. He has also worked as a team lead on major software projects for Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Gary's specialties include C#.NET, ASP.NET, Sitefinity, Delphi, Localization and Internationalization and database development. He holds a BS in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University, Sacramento
Speaking Sessions
Mapping and location awareness on the Windows Phone
Brief overview of what you'll need to get started writing programs on the Windows Phone. Then we will take a closer look at the map control and demonstrate some of the following:
- Basics: dropping a map control into a form
- Adding a pushpin
- Templating the pushpin
- Getting your current location
- How to mock your location in the emulator
- Databinding to your location, seeing the map update
- Geo coding and reverse geo coding using Bing services