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Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released!

Its time to start building more applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Developer tools beta for Windows Phone has been released. Few important updates in the beta are:

  • Blend is now compeltely integrated into the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta.
  • Now you can unlock you Windows Phone 7 device for development purposes.
  • You can deploy xap files directly to an unlocked device.
  • Updates to Silverlight for Windows Phone conrol templates

For more details check this blog post: https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/07/12/windows-phone-developer-tools-beta-released.aspx

For a list of new features check out this topic: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637516(v=VS.92).aspx

-Nitya.