News · 5 Mar 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel has just posted a little blurb on what developers can expect in Windows Phone 7 Series. As expected (and leaked here in early February) the main development tools will be XNA and Silverlight (via Explression Blend):
I mentioned in my last post that one of our principles was “to build upon the shoulders of giants; where possible integrate instead of create.” It won’t come as a surprise to many to learn that the Windows Phone 7 developer experience builds upon the following GIANTS (among others):
.NET
Silverlight
XNA platform
Microsoft’s developer tools
Web 2.0 standards
The expertise and familiarity with our tools is not lost. If you are a .NET developer today your skills and much of your code will move forward. If you are Silverlight or XNA developer today you’re gonna be really happy. New developers to the platform will find a cohesive, well designed API set with super productive tools.
He also confirmed that their will be no backward compatibility with previsou and current Windows Mobile applications. You can check out his full post here
If you are not faimilair with XNA or Silverlight I suggest you go check out the offical site here & here.
The Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Team is running a Q&A session on Twitter right no. To follow it just click here or follow the #WP7DEV tag.
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