Some of you may have seen the Windows Phone 7 Series demo apps that were shown during the MIX10 keynote. If you missed them, here are videos of the demos that were shown during the keynote. XNA demo Microsoft originally created “Goo Splat” for Zune HD...

We’ve just release a package of application bar icons for developers building apps/games for Windows Phone 7 Series. This package contains a set of 64 app bar icons that you can use when developing applications for Windows Phone. In addition to the 64...

It’s been almost two weeks since we made the Windows Phone Developer Tools available at MIX10, and hopefully you’ve all been off coding up some great apps and games! There’s a lot of “surface area” to this platform, so I thought I’d make sure everyone...

As you may have heard, we have announced the availability of a preview of the Windows Phone developer tools . The buzz around Windows Phone 7 Series has been so great that we want to encourage students to be amongst the first to get cracking with our...

On Monday, I wrote about how the Windows Phone Marketplace provides a different kind of shopping experience from a customer point of view. Today I wanted to describe how the Marketplace experience helps application and game publishers improves discoverability...

The Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design and Interaction Guide is available for download as a PDF from from microsoft.com here . From the introduction: The Windows® Phone 7 Series CTP User Interface (UI) is based off a Windows Phone design system internally...

Here are links to the MIX10 conference sessions that are relevant for Windows Phone 7 Series developers from the first two days. Go to http://live.visitmix.com/videos to access all of the keynote & session videos from this year’s conference. There...

Today, during the Mix opening keynote , we saw some amazingly cool Windows Phone (WP) demos. Although Windows Phone was announced about a month ago, today we heard the complete end-to-end story for both the user and the developer. On top of that, Scott...

Today we’re disclosing the details of the Windows Phone 7 application development platform and tools and how to create more compelling and creative applications and games based on Silverlight and XNA. Everything starts there, but it doesn’t end there...

Today at MIX ‘10 we’re looking under the hood of Windows Phone 7 Series, showing people what this phone can do and giving designers and developers the tools and information they need to expand their horizons. We’ve shown the phone’s...

MIX is right around the corner, and the Windows Phone 7 Series developer team ( @wp7dev ) is very excited to be talking about the development platform. This is a guest post by Joey deVilla , Microsoft Developer Evangelist, about our upcoming sessions...

As we roll towards full public disclosure of the details of the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform there needs to be a place where members of the team building it can engage in conversations with the community. This is the place. Subscribe...