{"id":2355,"date":"2010-03-15T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2355-windows-phone-7-developer-story-unveiled-at-mix10.html"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:10:38","slug":"windows-phone-7-developer-story-unveiled-at-mix10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2355-windows-phone-7-developer-story-unveiled-at-mix10.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone 7 developer story unveiled at Mix10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in Las Vegas for Microsoft\u2019s Mix10 conference, where the developer story for Windows Phone 7 series is being unveiled. According to the press release, the tooling for Windows Phone 7 looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone (free)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Phone 7 Series add-in for Visual Studio 2010 RC<\/li>\n<li>XNA Game Studio 4.0<\/li>\n<li>Emulator<\/li>\n<li>Expression Blend for Win Phone CTP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essentially, you are meant to use XNA for games on the device, and Silverlight for other kinds of application.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the announcement describes new services for developers \u2013 Microsoft Location Service to provide location information, and a notification service to \u201cpush information to the phone, regardless of whether or not an application is running\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will be marketed through a new Windows Phone Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll report more details as they emerge, here and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Microsoft has added that Expression Blend 4.0, for Silverlight 4.0 support, will be a free upgrade from Expression Blend 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Silverlight 4.0 RC, Expression Blend 4.0 beta, VS 2010 add-in available for download here: <a href=\"http:\/\/silverlight.net\/getstarted\/silverlight-4-beta\/\">http:\/\/silverlight.net\/getstarted\/silverlight-4-beta\/<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The MSDN documentation for Windows Phone 7 is here: <a title=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ff402531(VS.92).aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ff402531(VS.92).aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ff402531(VS.92).aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in Las Vegas for Microsoft\u2019s Mix10 conference, where the developer story for Windows Phone 7 series is being unveiled. According to the press release, the tooling for Windows Phone 7 looks like this: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone (free) Windows Phone 7 Series add-in for Visual Studio 2010 RC XNA Game Studio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2355-windows-phone-7-developer-story-unveiled-at-mix10.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Phone 7 developer story unveiled at Mix10<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,77,97],"tags":[1013],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-silverlight","category-windows","tag-windows-phone-7-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}