The best resources for Windows Phone 7 Development

Here is a collection of great resources to get you started developing for Windows Phone 7, and to continue doing so. I’ll be keeping this post up-to-date over the coming months.

Official documentation

Getting started learning Windows Phone 7

Here is a video introduction to the platform, covering a simple hello world app to get you started:

Then check out:

Learning C#:

Using Visual Studio efficiently:

Learning Windows Phone 7:

Tips for designers:

How to figure out what class libraries are available on Windows Phone 7, doing so is sadly nightmarish and highly confusing:

Video sessions introducing topics and providing tutorials (in order of release, newest first so most relevant):

Events

Keep on top of things and find solutions to problems

Use these forums to ask questions and keep an eye on solutions you could use:

Subscribe to these blogs:

Windows Phone 7 coding - an independent blog collecting lots of tutorials on niche tasks and solutions to tricky problems

Peter Torr’s Blog - regular posts on WP7 development

The wp7 daily - twitter newspaper focusing on WP7

Get listening to these podcasts:

The Silverlight Podcast - the past few weeks (as of August 10th 2010) have seen plenty of episodes focusing on Windows Phone 7 with lots of dev tips, reviews and news

Yet another Podcast - Jesse Liberty’s new (as of Sept 20th) WP7 focused podcast

Check these twitter accounts for the most up-to-date info, news, latest blog posts, development tips…

Ckindel (Key player in the future of Windows Phone App development)

wp7dev (The twitter account of the Windows 7 dev team - not updated as often as individuals accounts, but the key stuff should be on here)

Odedran (UK head of consumer marketing for Windows Phone)

keyboardP (enthusiast who often retweets intetesting posts and tutorials)

Code libraries and toolkits

Posts on general concepts I’ve found useful

Achieving specific tasks

Performance tips

Windows Phone 7 resources - Indyfromoz has been even busier than me, there’s a huge number of links on his page and I’ve not had time to go through them all but they look well chosen. This could be the most comprehensive list out there!

Sep 09, 2010

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