Are you a Visual Basic developer interested in Windows Phone 7?
Today is your lucky day because Microsoft is providing support for the language you love on the new Windows Phone platform. You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this download are all the templates, designer support, emulator (and phone!) support and IntelliSense for Visual Basic.
We’re giving VB developers early access to the Windows Phone 7 platform so that they can start thinking about what amazing apps they want to build.
A couple of important caveats:
1) This is a CTP, which means we want to give you early access, and are hoping to solicit feedback, but this is not a final implementation, and you should not expect anything you built to be commercial ready.
2) There is no Go-Live license, which means you shouldn’t try to release apps built with this version of the technology.
3) You need to be a Visual Studio 2010 Professional (or higher) customer. So if you only have the Express edition of the Windows Phone Developer Tools, you cannot use this version of the CTP. I hear Visual Studio 2010 have a trial download if you are really itchy.
4) You cannot build XNA games. Silverlight apps only.