Blog Post: Windows Phone 7

I recently got the newly released Windows Phone 7 (the Samsung Focus). So far, I love it! This is my first smart-phone.  It?s nice to join the 21st century.

I?m also poking around with how to write apps for it. It was easy to download C# Express and WP7 tools and get started with the emulator.

1. I started with ScottGu?s blog announcing the release of WP7 Dev tools. You can download the tools here.
2. I did the ?My first WP7 app? tutorial, which shows hosting a web browser control. It worked flawlessly in the emulator.
3. I also looked at Scott?s blog on writing a Twitter app.
4. This is a nice MSDN summary of basic tasks.

WP7 user apps are written in WPF (or XNA). I never really needed WPF when writing debugging stacks, so I?m feeling the pain from the learning curve here.

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