The Central Ohio Cloud Computing User Group and Central Ohio Windows Phone User Group will be holding a Windows Azure and Windows Phone 7 Fire Starter on Saturday, August 13 in Columbus, OH.

The firestarter will bring together developers for a day of learning and hands on experience with two of Microsoft's hottest new technologies.  Please come & join us for a full-day of developer smack-down as we see how mobility and cloud computing, especially on the Windows Azure infrastructure, play together. With Windows Azure & Windows Phone experts at hand leading discussions and code-slinging, you can choose to work through some labs based on what interests you or try building something of your own.

Windows Azure

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is a group of cloud technologies, each providing a specific set of services to application developers.  Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, networking and content delivery capabilities to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet. The Windows Azure platform can be used both by applications running in the cloud and by applications running on local systems.  The platform also includes the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, Windows Azure Virtual Network, SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric.  For more information on Windows Azure, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/.

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is the latest smartphone OS from Microsoft. Built from the ground-up, Windows Phone 7 brings together what you care about most, and brings it to you in an innovative and simple Metro UI interface. You and your content are at the center of it all through the Start screen experience with Live Tiles and integrated Hubs which provide rich & continuous user experience. With arguably some of the best tooling to develop mobile applications for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight or XNA or combo runtimes, rich developer ecosystem & the fastest growing Marketplace, what's holding you back?

For more information on Windows Phone, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/default.aspx.

If you're an iPhone or Android developer you are welcome too!  Come see how you can leverage the power of Windows Azure with your mobile applications.

Please bring your own laptop with Visual Studio 2010 and the necessary tools already installed.

• Windows Phone 7
  • Download and install the developer tools from http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started.
  • Get the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 at http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com.
• Windows Azure
  • The tools can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/.  Note: The latest Azure SDK (v1.4.1 - August 2011 can be installed only via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer).
    • Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Windows Azure SDK
    • Visual Web Developer 2010, if you do not have Visual Studio 2010
    • Required IIS feature settings
    • Required hot fixes
  • Windows Azure AppFabric SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=19925
• You will also want to download the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg271268.

Schedule

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support: