text: A Report on Two Day Hands-On Workshop on Microsoft Windows Phone 8
  "A Two Day Hands-On Workshop on Microsoft Windows Phone 8" is being conducted for the III year CSE students in SVIET on 15th & 16th Mar 2013 organized by MIC (Microsoft I-Spark Center) & Department of CSE. This program is being moderated by Ajay Kumar Margani, Nitin Pande and Kaushik Bhattacharya from Microsoft. The main aim of this program is to sow a Phone Gaming seed in the minds of III year CSE students using new technologies of Microsoft. So, that they can know how to give a real model views to their innovative ideas.
  As a part of this program that is on 15th Mar 2013 Ajay Kumar Margani, Nitin Pande and Kaushik Bhattacharya conducted a workshop on "Windows Phone8". They interacted with students and they felt that students are very much eager to learn new technologies like PHONE 8 and DotNet. In the whole session students are very interactive with Ajay , Nitin & Kaushik . All this session is with full of live examples and demos.
  At first, on DAY1 they had given an introduction to Windows Phone environment Microsoft answer for this, PHONE 8, etc and the importance of developing an app using Phone. They tested the students knowledge of grasping by posing some questions and they felt the students are utilizing the session very well and there grasping is excellent. Later they had given basics of XAML and explained live programming examples to the students. After this session they had given some programming tasks and they felt that students are very good in problem solving .
  On Day2 they explained about the Expression Blend, a tool to develop animations in the phone and also focused on how to create animations in windows Phone 8. They developed one PUZZLE using the fundamentals of Animation. Finally they conclude these Hands on by leveraging a sample application to all the students for further development. Management & Principal presented a Memento to the delegates of Microsoft as a token of Appreciation.