{"id":430962,"date":"2010-03-15T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=20647"},"modified":"2010-04-27T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:09:24","slug":"mix-10-day-1-windows-phone-7-applications-and-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430962","title":{"rendered":"MIX 10 Day 1: Windows Phone 7 Applications And How To"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft kicked of MIX10 with Joe Belfiore talking about Windows Phone 7 Series and giving a quick run through of the phone. Today\u2019s keynote was all about applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series and how to develop them. Microsoft demonstrated a few applications showcasing what the developers can do and announced tools that the developers would require to code the same. Microsoft has pulled off a genius move by allowing developers to use their existing knowledge about common technologies like .net and popular technologies like XNA and Silverlight to code applications for Windows Phone 7 Series devices, which I\u2019ve written about in a previous post<\/a>. Microsoft had recently showed how you can start a game on the desktop continue it on your phone and then finish it on the Xbox 360, the demo went to show that a lot of code for the game on the different platforms overlapped.<\/p>\n

Today, Microsoft has released all necessary tools to begin development for Windows Phone 7 Series applications and the cool part is, all the tools are free. The package includes:<\/p>\n