Still trying to figure all the inner workings of Microsoft’s newest mobile OS? Windows Phone 7’s development head honcho, Charlie Kindel has posted a summary guide of all the WP7 documention currently available:
Your first stop should be MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network for those of you new to the MS world), where we have the bulk of Windows Phone Developer documentation. There’s all sorts of great stuff here, including:
- Code Samples for Windows Phone
- An Application Platform Overview for Windows Phone that covers how all the pieces fit together
- A Getting Started Guide for Developing for Windows Phonethat includes everything you need to create your first Silverlight or XNA Framework application
- A Programming Guide for Windows Phone with overviews of features and how to guides with code snippets
- The Class Library Reference for Windows Phone
Other important documentation links include Developing Windows Phone Games and Silverlight for Windows Phoneas a part of the XNA Game Studio 4.0 and Silverlight 4 RC documentation sets, respectively.
Lastly, if you have feedback about our documentation, join the discussion in the Windows Phone forums or use the ratings control in the upper right-hand side of the pages on MSDN.
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