Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

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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

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Todd Main · Answer 1 · 2010-09-10T17:25:00.500

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Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training

Training (Video and PDF) includes:

An Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform
Game Building on the Windows Phone Platform
Advanced Windows Phone Development
Selling Your Windows Phone Solutions & Wrap Up

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answered Aug 04 '10 at 04:41

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 24 '11 at 08:11

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

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answered Aug 06 '10 at 01:42

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 14 '12 at 12:18

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

answered Apr 14 '12 at 12:18

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '11 at 00:04

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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.

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 10 '12 at 16:38

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Plurasight

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

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

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 24 '11 at 08:13

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

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 06:44

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

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 12 '14 at 10:40

There are few excellent tutorial sets for beginners.

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

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