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At PDC 2010, It was not only Release of IE9 PP 6 but also announcement about release of an ebook by Charles Petzold for the Windows Phone 7 ,Programming Windows Phone 7 created the buzz.

This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community, and within the pages that follow, the book show you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks.

Programming Windows Phone 7 is truly a free download, but for those readers who still love paper this book will also be available (for sale) divided into two fully-indexed print editions: Microsoft Silverlight Programming for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft XNA Framework Programming for Windows Phone 7.

This book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses basic concepts of Windows Phone 7 programming using example programs that target both Silverlight and the XNA framework. The second part of this book focuses entirely on Silverlight, and the third part on XNA 2D. For your convenience, the chapters in each part build upon previous knowledge in a progressive tutorial narrative, and hence are intended to be read sequentially.

To use this book properly you’ll need to download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools, which includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and an on-screen Windows Phone Emulator to test your programs in the absence of an actual device. Get the latest information and downloads at http://developer.windowsphone.com.

You can install these tools on top of Visual Studio 2010, in effect enhancing Visual Studio 2010 for phone development. That’s the configuration I used.

You can download a PDF here (38.6 MB).

And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB)

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