Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Resources
One of the more popular questions I get these days is where to start with Windows Phone 7. I thought I would share the list of links I have been sending to people to help get them started. It includes overview material and videos, hands on labs, links to the tools as well as the official blogs and twitter accounts.
Windows Phone 7 Videos on YouTube (Great way to show people the new phone and UI)
https://www.youtube.com/windowsphone#p/a/u/0/wlJ_fLPpmdM
Windows Phone 7 Customer Demo Site (Interactive demo of the UI)
Developer Portal (Marketplace registration and tools as well)
https://developer.windowsphone.com
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta (Released on July 12th and now includes all the Expression Blend for Windows Phone bits!)
OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7 Series CTP
Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
- This includes detailed training labs and step by step guides on the tools, Silverlight, XNA and Windows Phone 7 platform.
- https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/
XNA Creators Club (Windows Phone 7 Games Development)
Windows Phone 7 Games Development. Which should I use XNA Game Studio or Silverlight?
https://creators.xna.com/en-US/article/whichproductforWindowsPhone
MIX10 Day 1 Keynote (Windows Phone 7 starts at 27 mins in)
https://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/KEY01
MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Videos and Slides
https://live.visitmix.com/search?term=phone&x=0&y=0
MS TechEd 2010 Windows Phone 7 Videos and Slides
https://www.msteched.com/Tracks/WindowsPhone
Windows Phone 7 Online Documentation (MSDN)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402535(VS.92).aspx
Windows Phone 7 Developer Blog
https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/
Windows Phone 7 Community Samples and Links
https://www.reddit.com/r/wp7dev
Windows Phone 7 Developer Team on Twitter
Windows Phone 7 Local Champs
https://twitter.com/wp7dev/champs
Bing Windows Phone 7 Search
https://www.bing.com/search?q=windows+phone+7
Windows Phone 7 Dev Twitter Search (#wp7dev)
https://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wp7dev
YouTube - Windows Phone 7 Apps in Progress (wp7dev search)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wp7dev
Windows Phone 7 Design Resources (includes official design guidelines and Photoshop templates)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637515(v=VS.92).aspx
Charles Petzold's Programming Windows Phone 7 Free E-Book (11 Chapters!)
Comments
Anonymous
July 11, 2010
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates informationAnonymous
July 11, 2010
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates informationAnonymous
July 11, 2010
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information