Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.

---

We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more. You can edit the question so it can be answered with facts and citations.

Closed 4 yea开发者_StackOverflowrs ago.

Improve this question

This is a community wiki list of Windows Phone 7 resources. Feel free to edit/add/etc.

When posting, please use the friendly format of

[Actual Name of resource with a link]

not

[some long URL with no meaning unless I click on it]

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

A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 Phonegap Example

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

---

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

---

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

---

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.

---

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

---

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

---

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

---

Plurasight

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

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

---

There are few excellent tutorial sets for beginners.

1. Video series from Bob Tabor for absolute beginners These videos are excellent and easy to follow.
2. Once you have started and need help on specific topics consider searching on GeekChamp
3. When you are in a position to publish apps and fine tune things then the blog series by Jeff Blankenburg is quite useful.