Back in September, we released the CTP of Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Today we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of the RTW version of the Visual Basic add-on. You can immediately download VB support for the Windows...

For many markets around the world, this week marks the beginning of the most frenetic shopping season of the year. It’s no accident that Microsoft has been more visible than usual. The holiday shopping season is a major focus for us, as evidenced by Windows...

Third of our 10 list of things to do great when designing WP7 apps covers issues related to system colors and how the user selected themes affect your app. The WP7 platform ships with two themes—light and dark. Both themes share 10 accent colors, which...

We are continuing to elaborate on our top 10 list of things to do great when designing your app. Number two goes over login screens and some of the issues we know could be improved when creating screens with input fields. On login and other input type...

Windows Phone 7 is now available at AT&T and T-Mobile retailers across the United States. I’m pleased to announce that as of today, Windows Phone 7 customers in launch markets around the world already have access to nearly 2,000 apps and games – exceeding...

Creating a new mobile platform has been an amazing ride, is not often that one has the opportunity to create and define a totally new experience from the ground up, especially one that will be in the hands of millions of users. An endeavor of that magnitude...

The Music + Videos hub is the destination for media on Windows Phone 7. Phone users will go there not only to see all of their media content in one place, but because it provides instant access to the content that is most relevant. Specifically we know...

The Windows Phone Design team is very excited to be joining the conversations on the Windows Phone Developer Blog.  We’ve come a long ways, what a start!  It was only last February in Barcelona where we revealed Windows Phone 7 to the world...

One of the great parts about working on the Windows Phone product has been all of the companies we get to meet who can add value to the development experience for our mutual customers.  One of those companies is PreEmptive Solutions , a long-time...