This talk will  describe Windows Phone 7 development for a Stock quoting and Alerting demonstration application to highlight the phone's capabilities and it's development environment.   Some of the development features shared will be Threading, Thread communication using messaging, WebClient access, MVVM Light, Isolated Storage, LINQ, Behaviors, and Push (Microsoft Push Notifications, or MPN).  

Stock quoting was chosen as the domain as it lends itself to using these features.  The application uses Yahoo Financial as the quotes' source  however the data access is abstracted and therefore easily changed.   We will start by building the User Experience(UX) and data access to display the quotes on the phone. In this mode the user is able to select the stocks they want to follow and set alerts that are fired when a threshold is exceeded. In the end,  these alerts are the real value to the application. The interactive use should be minimized as the battery usage and bandwidth requirements are too great. We will then move the application to a push model where the alerts are fired from an Azure server application using MPC.