Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

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General Information
App hub - central place for windows phone/xbox development tools/tutorials/info
Windows Phone Home
Windows Phone Team blog
Programming Guide
Class Library Reference
Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide

Blogs
Den by default: Windows Phone 7
.NET Zone: Windows Phone 7
Shawn Wildermuth: Windows Phone 7
Jeff Blankenburg: 31 Days of Windows Phone

Articles
Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game
Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player
Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers:
(part1) (part2) (part3)
Performance Tips when creating WP7 apps
Windows Phone 7 Live Tile Schedules – How to execute instant Live Tile updates
Tips to get your Application in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace ASAP
Checking for Network connectivity in Windows Phone 7 SDK
Windows Phone 7.1: a Quick Start

Books
Programming Windows Phone 7
Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development
Pro Windows Phone 7 Development
Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development
Learning Windows Phone Programming
Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Windows Phone 7 Application Development
101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50
101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume II: Developing Apps 51-101 (Fall 2011)

Podcasts
Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone 7
Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch
Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel
Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series

Videos
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions
Colin Melia on Windows Phone 7
Channel9 Content for WIndows Phone

Developer Tools
8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW
EQATEC Profiler for Windows Phone 7
BugSense, bug tracking for Windows Phone 7

Frameworks
OpenNETCF.IoC Framework
Autofac for WP7
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
MVVM Light Toolkit
Columbus: Windows Phone 7 MVC framework
Windows Phone MVP
Caliburn.Micro - MVVM framework strongly based on conventions

Answers & Comments...

Answer: 1

Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training

Training (Video and PDF) includes:

1. An Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform
2. Game Building on the Windows Phone Platform
3. Advanced Windows Phone Development
4. Selling Your Windows Phone Solutions & Wrap Up

by : Todd Mainhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/149573

Answer: 2

The .NET REST client RestSharp supports Windows Phone 7. It really simplifies using web services and deserializing the response.

by : Luke Lowreyhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/71683

Answer: 3

Here is some information about framework that I had recently published: http://columbus.codeplex.com/

Columbus is MVC framework designed specifically for the Windows Phone 7 platform and supports:

• Strongly typed navigation with history
• View Models that can survive tombstoning
• Asynchronous and cancelable controller actions with execution progress
• Commands (CAB style)
• Multiple navigation frames
• Features to help applications to be complaint with 'Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements'
• Easy integration with IoC containers available on the Windows Phone 7 platform (source code solution contains samples demonstrating how to use Columbus with Autofac and Ninject).
• Simplified and testable usage of Choosers

by : Artem Govorovhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/146850

Answer: 4

Here is one more helpful resource: http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/

It has a large collection of development articles, tips & tricks, dev videos etc.

Check also the "Dev Guide" which is updated weekly with new info.

by : Boryana Miloshevskahttp://stackoverflow.com/users/575385

Answer: 5

Windows Phone Dev Podcast!!! Don't forget that one! They let you know the latest about the Windows Phone AND they talk to developers (like the guy who made Evernote) about how they made their apps.

by : parionhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/640428

Answer: 6

Here is another good intro into phone specific features of silverlight: Andrea Boschin on WP7

by : 0x49D1http://stackoverflow.com/users/47672

Answer: 7

Plurasight

http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/

this has excellent in depth video tutorials to get you started.

by : Truegillyhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/266552

Answer: 8

I would also add: 30+ Excellent Windows Phone Development Tutorials

by : user855520http://stackoverflow.com/users/0

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