PDC is on, and you can watch it online. Right now I am attending Jeff Petkau’s Real Games Analysis and Optimization of XNA Framework Games for Windows Phone session. Jeff’s talk is after Shawn Hargreaves’ session . While Shawn’s talk addressed XNA Framework...

Today we published an updated version of the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements.  As always you can find them on the AppHub ( http://create.msdn.com ).  Here’s a direct link to the PDF file . The WP7 App Certification Requirements...

PDC is on, and you can watch it online. Right now, I am attending Shawn Hargreaves’ session, Things You Need to Know before Building XNA Games for Windows Phone . Shawn is a great speaker, and has worked in the computer gaming industry for a long, long...

PDC is on, and you can watch it online. Right now, I am attending Oren Nachman’s session, Optimizing Performance for Silverlight Windows Phone Applications . Oren is a tester in the Windows Phone team who really hammered the platform searching for nasty...

PDC is on, and you can watch it online. Right now, I am attending Jaime Rodriguez’s session, Things I Wish I Knew Three Months Ago about Windows Phone . Jaime is a good friend (we are writing a book together) and he is a really great speaker. Here are...

I’ve been involved in every Microsoft PDC since the “Win32 PDC” of 1992. Today is the first day of Microsoft’s sold out PDC10 and it brings me great joy knowing Windows Phone 7 is one of the focus areas this year. There will be...

PDC10 starts in just two days. This year, PDC is being held at the Microsoft campus here in Redmond, and everyone here is very excited about it. While it sold out weeks ago, you shouldn’t feel bad if you aren’t able to attend the event in person. This...

Last week was a busy week for the Windows Phone Team:  not only did we celebrate the launch of Windows Phone across Europe , we also released the Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update .  The update, available here on the Microsoft...

Earlier today Microsoft and its partners announced the first wave of Windows Phone 7 devices and when they will be available. Events are taking place in regions around the world to give people a first look at actual devices by carrier. These events will...

The level of excitement and anticipation for Windows Phone 7 is mounting by the day. There are a few updates and milestones regarding Windows Phone Marketplace that I’d like to update developers on today. Let me start by thanking the developer community...