On Monday, May 10th, in partnership with the Madison .NET Users Group, we will be hosting a Windows Phone 7 Hands-On Lab. This is all about getting your hands dirty with the Windows Phone 7 Tools. I will be leading the group through a series of labs for building Windows Phone 7 apps. We’ll start with a brief overview of the application platform followed by labs on building Windows Phone apps with Silverlight and than games with XNA.

What: MADdotNET Hands-On-Lab Series: Windows Phone 7
When: Monday, May 10, 2010, 1:00PM – 6:00PM
Where: Herzing College (5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison)

This is a BYOM Lab. Bring-Your-Own-Machine. You’ll get more out of this if you can follow along with the labs.

You should come prepared with the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools loaded and ready to go. We’ll use the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit as the basis of our content for the labs.

Here is a  list of links to everything you need…

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP – April Refresh

Windows Phone 7 Training Kit

(Optional)

Microsoft Expression Blend® 4 Release Candidate (RC)

Expression Blend Add-in Preview 2 for Windows Phone

Expression Blend Software Development Kit (SDK) Preview 2 for Windows Phone

You can read Rob Cameron’s blog post for help on getting the latest tools (April Refresh) installed.  Specifically if you’ve installed prior versions of the Phone Developer Tools.

Please note, as dictated in the Release Notes – No, you can’t install the environment in VPC. However, with Windows 7, I have set up a Boot-to-VHD environment that works very well. Scott Hanselman has a great post on getting a Boot-to-VHD environment up and running.