For those of you itching to get ahead with Windows Phone 7 Series development, Microsoft have just announced a Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Training Kit. This is aimed at beginners onwards and caters for all the new technologies announced in Windows Phone 7 Series, including XNA, Silverlight etc. You don’t need to be an expert in these technologies to benefit, you just need a knowledge of Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET Framework.
The following course units are covered:
- Getting Started with Windows Phone
- Silverlight for Windows Phone
- XNA Framework 4.0 for Windows Phones
I am part way through the first unit at time of writing.
Windows Phone 7 promises to be an interesting release and there is a lot riding on it for Microsoft. As XNA is one of the technologies underlying the Xbox 360 Gaming console it promises to be particularly interesting in that arena.
If you want to find out more about the kit and download it, you can do so at:
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/