I wrote a Bentley App that runs on Windows Mobile using Visual Studio 2010 in Visual Basic. After installing the Windows Phone Developer tools, I was good to go. Took a bit of time to learn a bit about page navigation, but I was able to get started. I took advantage of some of the code sample starters online.

The app showcases information about Bentley University, but is designed in such a way that by changing the college name, colors, logo, web site URL, etc., in various XML files, and then rebuilding,  it becomes an app for  any school.

Philip DesAutels presented this app at the Microsoft  CIO Summit in Redmond, Washington. It was designed as a template that will serve as a model for other educational institutions.

The app is available in the Windows Marketplace, and the code in VB and C# is up on Codeplex.

Randy Guthrie, an Academic Developer Evangelist from Microsoft,  wrote a review on his blog.