Developing apps for Windows Phone 7 [closed]

Answer 1

The blog titled 'A Developer’s Roadmap to Windows Phone 7 Launch Timing' from the Official Windows Phone Developer Blog provides some great information. If you are a student, you can develop and deploy applications to the Window Phone Marketplace for free via www.dreamspark.com. It is a Microsoft Student Program initiative.

Answer 2

Windows Phone 7 Mango RC has also been released. You can start developing apps on this. If you have an account in the Windows Phone developer community App Hub, you will get an update for Mango on your email registered in App Hub account.

Answer 3

The first link is to download the windows phone development tools, which also include Visual Studio 2010 Express and the second is for information on developing for windows phone.

EDIT I have changed the links to link to the windows phone beta developer tools.

http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3&displaylang=en

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402535(VS.92).aspx

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

One thing to note is that you should use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 7 rather than the Visual Studio 2010 add-in. There are problems with the add-in, not the least of which is that the option to add a service reference to a Windows Phone Application project is conspicuously missing.

http://developer.windowsphone.com is a good place to get started.

The last update to the CTP was in April. Expect some things to change before RTM still.

Answer 5

Yes. Yes. No.

General Information
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/default.mspx
http://developer.windowsphone.com/
http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/

Articles
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/windows/WindowsPhoneGame.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/Wp7ViewModel.aspx

Books
http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html - FREE!

Podcasts
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=539
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=542
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=224
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=225

Videos
http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=172
http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions/Tags/WindowsPhone
http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WP7/

Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3&displaylang=en

Answer 6

Express version of Visual Studio is free: Visual Studio 2010 Express