{"id":575962,"date":"2010-05-23T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=16625"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:22:23","slug":"more-windows-phone-7-titbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575962","title":{"rendered":"More Windows Phone 7 titbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"LG Panther\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LG Panther\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lgpanther1.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmexperts.com\/highlights-brandon-watsons-microsoft-online-qa-about-wp7\" >WMExperts<\/a> have collected a few more <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-phone-7-series\" >Windows Phone 7<\/a> facts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone7.com\/backstage\/events\/live.aspx?uri=Event6\" >an hour-long video interview<\/a> of Brandon Watson, Microsoft&#8217;s Director of Developer Experience at their backstage event.<\/p>\n<p>They note: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Final version of developer tools will be available &quot;months&quot; before final release of hardware. <\/li>\n<li>New builds of WP7 developer tools every month or two <\/li>\n<li>Developers: Do expect access to WP7 phones! More info coming soon&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of thousands of downloads of WP7 dev tools already <\/li>\n<li>2 million C# developers in the US&#160; &#8211;&gt; all potential WP7 developers <\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re a competent Silverlight developer, you should be able to build WP7 apps in just a few hours.<\/li>\n<li>3rd party apps <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> be able to use email attachments <\/li>\n<li>No support for in-browser Silverlight at this time, didn&#8217;t make the cut <\/li>\n<li>Business experience was not &quot;main concern&quot; with this initial release; consumer UX was. <\/li>\n<li>Rejection of apps will feature a bullet list of things to fix to get it in, no vagaries <\/li>\n<li>OEM applications can&#8217;t multitask either <\/li>\n<li>No restriction on programming tools as long it compiles down to their common language runtime (C# only, more languages later) <\/li>\n<li>Socket support for WP7 will come later but is not in initial release. <\/li>\n<li>Markets of availability have not yet been announced (i.e. U.S. release vs. Europe) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Much of it is confirmation from what we know before, but of note is that developer phones are coming (hopefully soon), 3rd party apps will not be able to open e-mail attachments (a major minus for an OS that does not have a file system), phones may not come to Europe at the same time as US (!) and that socket support for apps is planned eventually.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone7.com\/backstage\/events\/live.aspx?uri=Event6\">the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/msmobiles.com\/news.php\/9165.html\" >MSMobiles.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WMExperts have collected a few more Windows Phone 7 facts from an hour-long video interview of Brandon Watson, Microsoft&#8217;s Director of Developer Experience at their backstage event. They note: Final version of developer tools will be available &quot;months&quot; before final release of hardware. New builds of WP7 developer tools every month or two Developers: Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}