MIX 10 – Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
I’m attending Charlie Kindel session on WP App Platform now. The session is not started yet – 1 more hour to go and I have time to install the Windows Phone Developer Tools :). If you want to try WP Dev Tools, you can download and install from here. Make sure you un-install previous VS2010 Beta version if you have. The installer will download 302MB from internet - nice to watch the following video during your installation.
First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo
The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP includes the following:
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
- Windows Phone Emulator CTP
- Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
- XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP
FYI. Windows Phone Tool is Free.
As you see during installation – there are two frameworks for developing apps on WP7 – Silverlight for UI event driven and XNA 4.0 for loop based games. Combined with Azure cloud platform – this will be a very cool mobile platform. I’ll cover more in my next post. Enjoy Windows Phone 7 Developer Site : http://developer.windowsphone.com!
Cheers- RAM