Dateline: October 11, 2010 – Worldwide
Microsoft today joined partners in revealing 9 new Windows Phone 7 handsets that will be available very soon from leading mobile providers in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
I for one, am ready to burst. I will be at the Boston Windows Phone 7 Firestarter both days, and am eager to show and tell about these phones: what a blast!
Talking with Jeffrey Blankenburg – Microsoft Field Evangelist for the Heartland, about Windows Phone 7 programming. 
SPECIAL RELEASE TO CELEBRATE TODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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This two-part tutorial is included in both An iPhone Developer’s Guide to Windows Phone 7 Programming, and Windows Phone 7 Development for Silverlight Programmers. The material is equally relevant to both and so the two series have been temporarily joined.
In part one of this tutorial we will describe and illustrate several animation and graphics techniques while building an arcade game for Windows Phone 7.
Talking with folks from Firefly Logic about programming for Windows Phone 7 vs. iPhone programming. 
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For this tutorial we’re going to, again, partially recreate one of the excellent labs available in the Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit.
To begin, I created an application called (not my fault!) Wazup and added the existing assets from the lab: specifically,
All three are added using Add->Existing Item.
Talking with John Papa, Senior Technical Evangelist, about MVVM and Patterns
Grok. Verb: To fully understand. See Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. 1961
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To celebrate the release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, we’re launching two days of free fast-paced learning.
The first day takes you inside the all-new Metro interface with fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 application development.
The next day is a hands-on application building workshop. Work at your own pace, or join a proctored group lab.
The presentations and labs are free, so you can join for either or both days. Register at www.msdnevents.com/wp7 .
The iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Mind Map is a work in progress, illustrating the topics covered in the tutorial series to date.
For the best view, click on the map pop out in the lower left corner.
[Last update: September 28 2010]
I recently launched Yet Another Podcast, the culmination of a serious amount of time spent researching microphones, mixers, software and more.
This is the sixth of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
Not all Windows Phone 7 Applications are entirely self-contained. It is not terribly surprising that some will want to reach out and touch other applications. There are two ways to do so:
