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Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTW released

Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTW released

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Microsoft has just announced the release of theVisual Basic for Windows Phone 7 developer Tools RTW alongside a small sample application to give developers a sense of what things look like when developing in VB for WP7. This release enables developers to code silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 (no XNA development) with the latest version of the SDK released last month. You can grab the VB RTW tools here:

  • English: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206790&clcid=0×409
  • French: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=206790&clcid=0x40c
  • German: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=206790&clcid=0×407
  • Italian: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=206790&clcid=0×410 
  • Spanish: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=206790&clcid=0x40a
  • source: Microsoft

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