Windows Phone 7 Resources

A collection of useful resources including articles, source code, controls for Windows Phone 7 development. Please feel free to share your links.

Tools, Books, Guides

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM (online installer), ISO
• UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone
• Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold (PDF Preview) (Source Code)
• Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers – RTM Refresh
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes (Videos)
• Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training
• Windows Phone Design Day Recording (videos)
• Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
• Windows Phone 7 Class Library Reference Technical Preview
• Windows Phone Guidance Catalog
• 31 days of Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 How-To Index (MSDN Links)

Articles & Tutorials

• Build an application from start to finish with the final release of developer tools
• Getting the Silverlight Toolkit Controls to work on Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone Picture Effects – Part 1
• A Windows Phone 7 multi touch pan/zoom behaviour for Multi Scale Images
• Developing for Windows Phone 7 – Shawn Wildermuth – part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Windows Phone 7 Mini-tutorial series by Jesse Liberty – part 1, part 2, part 3
• Building a RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7 – part 1, part 2
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorial – Creating a simple notes app with Silverlight – part 1, part 2, part 3
• Creating an RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App : Sudoku – part 1, part 2, part 3
• Creating a round image button for WP7 – part 1, part 2, part 3
• wFace – Windows Phone 7 Facebook Integration – part 1, part 2
• Windows Phone 7 stock quoting demo – part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application – Part 1, Part 2
• Building a “real” Windows Phone 7 Twitter application – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, part 6 (Codeplex)
• Clearing cookies on Windows Phone 7 (How to logout of Facebook)
• Patterns of Windows Phone Architecture – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Using ChildWindow in Windows Phone 7 Projects
• Don’t forget to encrypt your Windows Phone data
• NerdDinner client for Windows Phone 7
• Building a Newsreader Application using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Swiss DPE)
• FlightsNorway – Demo WP7 App from NDC2010
• Using Silverlight to create a Digg Client for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Candle Application
• Windows Phone 7 Quake
• Windows Phone 7 – Where am I?
• Windows Phone 7 – Hold it level
• Windows Phone 7 Quick Mail
• Windows Phone 7 Snowfall (UserControl Tutorial)
• Windows Phone 7 Analog Clock
• Windows Phone 7 Minutes to Midnight
• Windows Phone 7 Tic Tac Toe
• Windows Phone 7 samples – Chess and Shock
• Reaction Time – Sample app illustrating Visual State Manager
• TallyMarks for Windows Phone 7, Source code
• Gas Mileage for Windows Phone 7, Source code
• Vanguide for Windows Phone 7
• Creating a small downloaded tool for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft Tag Application for Windows Phone 7
• REST Web Services in Windows Phone 7 (With RestSharp)
• Using the ASP.NET Membership Provider and Authentication Service from Windows Phone 7
• PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Multitasking (With source code)
• AdMob for Windows Phone 7
• Use your webcam with the WP7 Emulator
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Similar to iPhone AppsAmuck series)
• How to save, load and iterate pictures with Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 resources from Eugene Chaikin
• Windows Phone 7 API Notes
• Windows Phone 7 and iPhone Multitasking
• Properly exiting Silverlight-based Windows Phone 7 Games (code)
• Use the ASP.NET Authentication Service With Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone Grid Helper, TextBox Helper
• Market Predictor – Video on building a list in Windows Phone 7
• Saving state: Execution Model Best Practices on Windows Phone 7
• How to use multitouch behavior in Windows Phone 7 (Video)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header

   

• Optimizing Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 – When does the GC (Garbage Collector) run
• Key-value coding in Windows Phone with Reactive Extensions
  
• OAuth with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7
  
• Windows Phone 7 Application with an Azure backend – part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
  
• Windows Phone Applications – Gestures
• Windows Phone 7 ListBox Pagination with MVVMLight and ApplicationBar
• Aysnchronous Download + LINQ to XML + Data Binding
• Silverlight On Mobile : Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 Application
• Keyboard helper class for Windows Phone 7 Vs Tab Index
• Windows Phone 7 Keyboard Helper as a behavior
• Windows Phone 7 development – Safer reactive extensions
• Windows Phone 7 application bar – Updated binding helper
• Browser app with bit.ly shortening for Windows Phone 7
• iPhone for Windows Phone 7 (Sample application demonstration layout, animations, binding, etc)
• Asynchronously check if a remote file exists on a server
• Google weather API on Windows Phone 7
• Weather alerts on your Windows Phone 7
  
• Detect when a ListBox scrolls to its end (Windows Phone 7)
• How to SMS using the SmsComposeTask for Windows Phone 7
  
• How to place a Phone Call on Windows Phone 7 using PhoneCallTask
• Windows Phone 7 emulator – capturing traffic with Fiddler or Wireshark
• Asynchronous image download on Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 looping selector
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 – ListBox scroll performance
• Silverlight WP7 List Scroll with Items as Image/Description from web – Bing Image Search
• Animate each ListBox item while it is being added
• Windows Phone 7 ListBox Orientation based scrolling
• Windows Phone 7 error handling, reporting
• Understanding Message Box in Windows Phone 7
• LazyListBox Should Improve your Scrolling Performance and Responsiveness
• How to: Localize an Application Title for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 In-App searching, filtering
• Test-driven development on Windows Phone 7
• Localize a Windows Phone 7 application
• Porting an iPhone application to Windows Phone 7 (PDF)
• Applying data templates dynamically in Windows Phone 7
• Shake the Windows Phone and detect it
• A step-by-step guide to building and deploying your Windows Phone 7 application
• Detect when a ListBox scrolls to its end
• A detailed overview of Windows Phone’s ListPicker control
• UI vs Compositor – Demystifying the main Windows Phone 7 OS threads
• Loading quickly on Windows Phone 7 – Twitter example
• How to move your line of business app to phone + cloud
• Support orientation with a listbox and rotate animation on windows phone 7

Controls and Components

• A clearable textbox for Windows Phone 7
• Creating a list picker for Windows Phone 7
• Update to list picker control for Windows Phone 7
• Implementing Picker Box functionality in Windows Phone 7 (Update)
• Customizing Picker Box dialog
• Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control
• Windows Phone 7 Jump List
• Context Menu from Windows Phone 7 ListBox
• AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7
• DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently
• Creating Scrollable TextBlock for Windows Phone 7
• Building a Windows Phone 7 “Infinite ListBox” – part 1, part 2
• Creating a progress dialog for Windows Phone 7
• Reuse LoopingSelector in Date & Time picker SL tookit control
• Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit
• Kawagoe Control Toolkit for WP7 (Consists of MessagePopup, ImageCache, PersistentImageCache, SystemImageCache, OneShotDispatcherTimer)
  
• MoAds – Custom Windows Phone 7 Ad Control with AdMob support
• Animate and fade Windows Phone orientation changes has a new mode – hybrid
• Reactive extensions responding to UI events
• PowerPoint controller for Windows Phone 7
• Bewise Phone Controls – Jump list control & Rating Control
• An animated swipe-enabled title control for Windows Phone 7 (Updated for RTM)
• A better slider for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Grid
• Windows Phone 7 Picker Box Control Implementation
• FluidListBox Control (code)
• Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight
• Windows Phone 7 Custom Message Box
• Windows Phone 7 Asynchronous Programming

Tips

• Windows Phone : Monitoring Application Startup Performance
• Windows Phone 7 Preprocessor Directive
• Getting Diagnostic Output from your Windows Phone programs
• Windows Phone 7 Emulator Tips & Tricks
• Keyboard mapping for Windows Phone Emulator
• How To Programmatically Dismiss the SIP (keyboard) in Silverlight applications for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 InputScope in VisualStudio and Blend
• Exiting a Windows Phone 7 application
• Using the command line options with Windows Phone Emulator
• How to pin your tile to the start page
• Installing offline documentation for Windows Phone Developer Tools
• Windows Phone 7 taskhost.exe error
• Smoth… Springy… Scrunchy… WP7 List Behavior
• Discovering and Using Default Styles
• View WP7 App’s Isolated Storage structure
• Where is my VS2010 Windows Phone Express?
• Screen capture on Windows Phone 7
• Disabling the lock screen
• Updated Tilt Effect
• How to detect when a list is scrolling (or not)
• Fiddler (and other proxies) don’t work with WP7. Need Network tracking? Use Netmon
• InputScopes for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Input Scope (Another article with the same title)
• Changing on-screen keyboard layout using InputScope
• Quick tip – Set the correct time in Windows Phone 7 emulator
• Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone
• Make your Windows Phone 7 application dependent on the network connection type
• Windows Phone 7 Fade In animation
• How to pin your game or app’s tile in the emulator
• Downloading images and intermediate ProgressBar in Windows Phone
• Bindable Application Bar in Windows Phone
• Using Different Resources for Windows Phone 7 Themes
• Quick Tip : Playing a streamed MP3
• Windows Phone 7 and Image Overlays
• Windows Phone 7 – Theme Aware
• Get Fiddler working with Windows Phone 7
• Getting the current theme in Windows Phone 7 for Silverlight
• How to quit a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Application
• Windows Phone 7 Emulator Add-In for Expression Web
• Windows Phone 7 stealing status bar
• Copying files out of the Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7
• Calling Javascript functions in Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Emulator – set color depth
• Loading a static XML file to you Windows Phone / Silverlight App
• Getting the Root Visual in Windows Phone 7
• Creating a toast-like notification popup
• Windows Phone 7 – When does the Garbage Collector Run
• Make your content scrollable with ScrollViewer
• Changing the Background and Foreground Colors for an ApplicationBar
• Serialization Performance on Windows Phone 7
• Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications
• Windows Phone 7 Keyboard Vs Tab Index
• Use a string resource to display your application name
• Windows Phone 7 vs keyboard vs ApplicationBar vs binding
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Saving Pictures
• Detecting the theme in Windows Phone 7
• How to detect the theme being used in WP7
• Launcher and Chooser support in Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 developer tips and tricks
  
• WP7 tip : How to detect when a list is scrolling (or not)
  
• WP7 tip: Maximum height of a control is 2048px, anything larger will fail to paint or cause weird effects
• WP7 tip: If you have controls with negative margins/padings and they’re in a scrollviewer, use BitmapCache or risk having scrolling artifacts.
• WP7 tip: Build login UI as a popup on the Frame, providing a gate to auth-only page
• WP7 tip: If you get “XAP is invalid” using Application Deployment tool, check XAP content file names for invalid characters
• WP7 tip : Use App.Resources for your Application Title
• WP7 tip: Missing StringFormat attribute? Use a ValueConverter
• WP7 tip: Understanding the difference between content and resources
• Wp7 tip: Use a NavDictionary to pass state between pages
• WP7 tip : Good manners and the back button
  
• WP7 tip : Windows Phone 7 Emulator Keyboard Shortcuts
• WP7 tip : Understanding persistent data and transient state
  
• WP7 tip: Choosers and OnNavigatedTo/Loaded Methods
• WP7 tip: Size limit for page state is 2Mb and for application state is 4Mb (MSDN forum)
• WP7 tip : Copy to Output Directory Demystified
  
• WP7 tip : How to get the Windows Phone device unique identifier
• WP7 tip : Panorama tricks – How to eliminitate blending seams in the background
• WP7 tip : Panorama tricks – Using WrapPanel in wide PanoramaItems
• WP7 tip : Panorama tricks – Using XAML for your background
• WP7 tip : Dismissing Popup Controls
• WP7 tip: Determining license mode for Windows Phone 7
• WP7 tip: Use InputScope to give your users a better experience
• Getting System Information on Windows Phone 7
• Determine light or dark theme in Windows Phone 7 RTM
• Windows Phone memory constraints
• Windows Phone emulator – error in deploying code
• Windows Phone 7 – Who are you?
• WP7 tip: Be Aware-of and Know the work around for a Data Binding bug in RTM tools
• WP7 tip : Making your images themeable
• WP7 tip : How to maintain selected Pivot item in Windows Phone 7
• WP7 tip : Icon and Tile Image Replacement
• SmartPanorama : A Panorama control extension (Maintain selected PanoramaItem)
• WP7 tip :  Updating the Geo Location of a UIElement on a Map Layer
• WP7 tip : Use fully qualified paths when setting the source property
• WP7 tip : Check your memory usage
• Debug Memory Counter for Windows Phone 7
• Couple of gotchas playing WAV files on Windows Phone 7
• DatePicker ApplicationBarIconButton images not displaying
• TextBox databinding does not update with ApplicationBar button
• ApplicationBar button and MenuItem localization
• WP7 tip: Page Startup – The Constructor
• WP7 tip: Why will my Photo or Camera task launchers not work on my device
• Get assembly name
• WP7 tip : Page Startup – Loaded event vs. OnNavigatedTo method
• WP7 tip : Setting the Panorama Page after Tombstoning
• How to : Design a Windows Phone 7 ListBox
• Fiddler and the Windows Phone 7 Emulator
• WP7 tip : Conditional logic during startup of Windows Phone 7 App
• Conditional logic during startup of a Windows Phone App
• WP& tip: Scroll bar position after Tombstoning
• Peter Torr’s memory diagnostic tool
• Running a Windows Phone 7 under the lock screen

Source Code

• Code samples for Windows Phone (MSDN)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Code Sample (cespage.com)
• Windows Phone 7 Action Pack
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot Controls (Unofficial, open-source version)
• Foursquare on Codeplex (Works with Beta Tools Release)
• JelloPhone for Windows Phone 7 (with full source), article
• Multitouch library for Windows Phone 7
• Vanguide for Windows Phone 7, article
• Pillbox for Windows Phone 7 (Needs update to Beta tools)
• Windows Phone 7 Sokoban
• Where Am I? App
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7
• Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7
• Hammock for consuming REST APIs (supports Windows Phone 7)
• RestSharp – .NET Rest Client Library (supports Windows Phone 7)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit for Windows Phone 7
• IGFinance – Infragistics Sample Application for Mobile Device (with Source Code for WP7)
• (Preliminary version) MahApps.Twitter library for Windows Phone 7 (code)
• Windows Phone 7 DropBox library
• Windows Phone 7 Samples – Coverflow, Weather, Clock, Solitaire
• Windows Phone 7 – some interesting frameworks
• Tainspin Travel sample for Windows Phone 7
• News Framework for Windows Phone 7
• Fingerpaint – A little WP7 paint app
• Flickr for Windows Phone 7
• WP7Snake – The good old snake game for Windows Phone 7 (with source code)

WCF, Azure & Windows Phone 7

• Using WCF on Windows Phone 7 : Walk-through
  
• WCF on the Windows Phone 7 – The How To Guide
• GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF Service
• Cloud + Device: Combine the power of Windows Azure, IE 9, and Windows Phone 7 – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• SQL Azure, OData & Windows Phone 7
• Display Images from Database in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) using WCF service
• Cloud-enable your Windows Phone 7 Apps – Windows/SQL Azure WCF REST + JSON Services
• Consuming an Azure WCF REST + JSON Service

Design, Styling & Navigation

• Design Resources for Windows Phone
• Theme Resources for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 Design Templates
• Windows Phone 7 Bar Napkin Template PDFs
• Windows Phone Design System – Codename Metro (PDF)
• Application Bar Best Practices For Windows Phone
• Mobile Web Design : Overview, Examples & Tips
• Windows Phone 7 Application Bar
• Frame/Page Navigations and Transitions using the TransitioningContentControl
• Windows Phone 7 Animated Transitions
• Customer Per-Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone launchers and choosers
• Launchers and Choosers in Windows Phone 7 – part 1, part 2
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 : “Launchers and Choosers”
• Frame and Page Navigation Overview for Windows Phone
• A really short post on Windows Phone 7 Navigation
• Navigation in Windows Phone 7
• Simple page navigation
• The Windows Phone 7 Application Bar
• A High Performance Progress Bar for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone 7 Performance Bar – Turn IsIndeterminate off when not needed
• Windows Phone 7 splash screen and customization
• Windows Phone 7 icons
• Creating a splash screen with a progress bar for WP7 applications
• Customer per-page transitions in Windows Phone 7
• Simplifying page transitions in Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout
• Improving ListBox Performance in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7: Data Virtualization
• Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications
• Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 with Blend
• Better Theme-Aware Icon Buttons in Windows Phone 7
• Integrated Links and Styling for Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control
• Displaying HTML String in Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser
• International UTF-8 Characters in Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control
• Windows Phone 7 : Style it using Expression Blend
• Quick charts for Windows Phone 7 (Github Repository)
• Windows Phone Application Model : Navigation and Saving State
• An easy way to save state in Silverlight and Windows Phone7
• How to have Binding on Application Bar
• LayoutTransformer Control
• Redirecting an initial navigation
• Windows Phone 7: Navigating After A Picture/Camera Task
• Being theme-aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps
• Pivot applications for Windows Phone 7
• Panorama in Windows Phone 7
  
• Windows Phone 7 Gestures Cheat Sheet
• Windows Phone 7 device templates (Codeplex download)
• Create a theme for your Windows Phone 7 application
• Using several CollectionViewSources with Pivot control
• Creating a Custom Application Bar Icon
• Catching the back button action in Windows Phone 7
• Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7
• Using Resource Dictionary in WP7
• Windows Phone 7 : Beating the boot-time blues
• Windows Phone 7: Jumping through the Back Stack
• A browse icon for Windows Phone 7 Application Bar
• Making the SelectedItem shrink when pressed in a ListBox for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser control ScriptNotify
• Very slick Windows Phone 7 staggered animation
• Creating a tile using the theme’s color as background

Tombstoning

• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning – State – Launching, Closing, Deactivated and Closing Events
• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning Simplified
• Windows Phone 7 – Tombstoning simplified, less duplication
• Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning Pattern Tip
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more – part 1, part 2, part 3
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 : “Tombstoning”
• Extension methods for Tombstoning the Windows Phone 7 model
• Execution Model for Windows Phone

Blend for Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Days – Blend
• Create an ApplicationBar & its associated Buttons & MenuItems using Expression Blend
• Custom Windows Phone 7 Behaviors in Expression Blend
• Custom Fonts in Windows Phone 7 with Expression Blend
• Windows Phone 7 – Style it with Expression Blend
• Creating a simple action for your WP7 application

Data, Isolated Storage, Database & Filesystem

• Windows Phone 7 DB – RTM Release
• Creating LINQ data provider for Windows Phone 7 – part 1, part 2
• Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications
• Working with files in a Windows Phone 7 application
• Windows Phone 7 SQLite Proof of Concept
• Windows Phone 7 SqliteClient Preview
• Windows Phone 7 SqliteClient with Transaction Support
• Windows Phone 7 deploy database as content (SQLite DB file)
• SharpZipLib.Silverlight for Silverlight 3/4 and Windows Phone 7
• How to pass data (send and read) between pages in Windows Phone 7 applications
• Working with Isolated Storage
• Sterling, Object-Oriented Database for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
• Using Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7
• How to Store Data and Pass Data between Pages
• Getting to my Isolated files
• Isolated Storage helper
• Do you need to cache data?
• Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage – How many files does it take to crash IsolatedStorage?
• Windows Phone 7 XML IsolatedStorage Example
• View your application’s IsolatedStorage structure
• Windows Phone 7 RTM Isolated Storage Bug : IsolatedStorageFile and “searchpattern”
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service
• Silverlight REST-based Azure/S3 BLOB API updated to run on Windows Phone 7
• Beware of .cache files in Isolated Storage
• Windows Phone 7 – Managing Application State
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization Comparison
• Using IsolatedStorageCache

Charting

• Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates
• Charting on Windows Phone with Silverlight Control Toolkit
• Windows Phone 7 RTM Charting with Silverlight Control Toolkit

Media

• Windows Phone Picture Effects Application
• Windows Phone Picture Effects Application part 2
• One-time Cached Images in Windows Phone 7
• Intelligent Image Caching for Windows Phone 7
• How to save to and access photos from the Pictures Hub in Windows Phone 7
• Operating with image files in Windows Phone 7 application
• Recording Audio in Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 – Microphone and Isolated Storage
• Storing and Playing media on Windows Phone 7
• Speech Recognition on Windows Phone 7
• Supported media codecs for Windows Phone 7
• Ink capabilities in Windows Phone 7
• Extending the Music + Video hub on Windows Phone 7
• LowProfileImageLoader – Keep Windows Phone 7 UI responsive while loading images in the background
• Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7
• IIS Smooth Streaming Client 1.1 RTW, Smooth Streaming Support released for WP7
• Fixing the Microphone Audio cut-off issue in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight
• Playing multiple sounds in Windows Phone
• Silverlight Media Framework 2.2 with full support for Windows Phone 7
• Anti-aliased Lines And Optimizing Code for Windows Phone 7–First Look
• Resume the user’s music after MediaPlay
• How to capture audio from your microphone in Windows Phone 7
• Integrating your App into the Music + Videos Hub
• Saving recorded audio in IsolatedStorage

Accelerometer

• Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer
• Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer Values
• Accelerometer Simulator for Windows Phone 7 – Demo, Source
• Shake detection with Accelerometer on Windows Phone 7
• Emulating the Accelerometer in Windows Phone 7 emulator using Freescale Semiconductor accelerometer
• Accelerometer helper for Windows Phone 7
• Using the accelerometer in Windows Phone 7
  
• Using the Accelerometer API

Geolocation

• Writing a Bing Maps location aware application for Windows Phone
• GPS Simulator for Windows Phone Development (article) (Updated version)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 GPS and Location Services
• Calculate POI distance from current location in Windows Phone 7
• Simulating and Mocking Location Data in Windows Phone 7
• Using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control in Windows Phone 7
• Use the Bing Maps Control with Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM
• GPS Simulator for Windows Phone
• Using GeoLocation API in Windows Phone 7 with Rx
• Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API
• Reverse Geocoding with Bing Maps Service
• Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx
• Using Rx to fine tune moving apps in Windows Phone 7
• GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part 1

Push Notifications

• Push notifications for Windows Phone
• Push notifications in Windows Phone 7
• Understanding how Push Notifications Work – part 1, part 2
• How To : Send a Push Notification from a Web Service for Windows Phone
• Using Push Notification from your Windows Phone application
• Fix for Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7
• A really long post on Windows Phone 7 Notification system
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 : Push Notifications – part 1, part 2
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications Revisited
• Sending Toast Notifications on Windows Phone 7
• Channel 9 video on Push Notifications – Part 1
• Channel 9 video on Push Notifications – Part 2 (Updated with changes in PNs after Beta release)
  
• Simulated Push Notifications on Windows Phone 7

WCF RIA Services, OData & Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 OData Library (Blog post announcement)
• OData Synchronization with WCF Data Services
• OData Viewer Tool
• Using RIA Services SOAP and Windows Phone 7
• Examining OData – How to create your URI’s easily with LINQPad
• OData v2 and Windows Phone 7

MVVM/ MVVMLight/Caliburn for Windows Phone 7

• MVVMLight (Codeplex)
• Handling the SelectionChanged event in WP7 using MVVM Light
• A Windows Phone 7 Video Player with MVVMLight
• Demystifying MVVM (Dallas TechFest 2010 Talk by Chris Keonig, with source code)
• Using MVVM Light to drive a Windows Phone 7 / Silverlight 4 map viewer
• Building a Windows Phone 7 app with MVVM pattern, using TDD and mock objects
• Windows Phone 7 MVVM Template
• Windows Phone 7 MVVM Template for Visual Studio
• Count me in – Sample app illustrating blendable MVVM framework
• WP7 ListBoxItem Animation on bound data changes (MVVM)
• Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD  (7 part series)
• Use Ninject to decouple discovery of your ViewModel’s in MVVMLight’s ViewModelLocator
• Use MEF to decouple discovery of your ViewModel’s in MVVMLight’s ViewModelLocator
• Windows Phone 7 – Testable Touch with MVVM
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 4 – Working with Windows Phone 7
• MVVMLight-ified Netflix Catalog Sample
• Understanding MVVM for Silverlight and Windows Phone in 3 easy steps
• AutoViewModelLocator – a convention based approach to wiring up ViewModels in MVVM
• MVVM Light toolkit example for Windows Phone 7: Twitter search
• Just another ViewModelBase class
• Windows Phone 7 Reactive Extension, OData, MVVM
• WP7 ListBoxItem Animation on bound data changes (MVVM)
• Data Binding Pivot Control Windows Phone 7 with MVVM
• Windows Phone 7 – Sharing data between pages with MVVM
• Visual Studio template for C# Windows Phone 7 Panorama application with Caliburn.Micro
• MVVM Light Toolkit Pitfalls on Windows Phone 7 & How to Avoid Them
• Notifying the viewmodel of input errors using MVVMLight in Silverlight
• Databinding Bing Maps Control in Windows Phone 7 with MVVM
• Using MVVMLight Messenger and behaviors to open files from local disk in Silverlight
• Windows Phone 7 -Pivot Filtering with Caliburn Micro
• Another Windows Phone 7 navigation approach with MVVM

Unit Testing

• Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3
• A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone Marketplace, Advertising, Analytics

• Windows Phone Developer Account Guide
• Comparing Microsoft Marketplace and Apple AppStore
• New policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace
• Windows Marketplace for Mobile: Registration and Application Submission Walkthroughs
• Windows Phone 7 Application Categories
• Summary of Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements
• Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 (FAQ)
• Tracking Ad Clicks with the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework on the Windows Phone
• Search Marketplace on Windows Phone 7 with the MarketplaceSearchTask
• Capturing Windows Phone 7 Emulator screenshots for Marketplace
  
• Windows Phone 7 — Images required for Marketplace submission
• Creating Windows Phone 7 Application and Marketplace Icons
• WP7 Marketplace: Ensuring Your App Is Ready For Launch
• in-Depth analysis of Application Certification Requirements
• Trials and Tribulations – Integrate trial experience in the same binary
• Anatomy of a WP7 application submission
• Important information for WP7 application submission
• Getting your app published in the Marketplace
• Adding Windows Phone Capability Detection to your build process
• A GUI for Windows Phone 7 Capability Detection Tool
• Marketplace tips for Windows Phone 7 developers
• App Hub submission walkthrough
• Submitting a Windows Phone 7 app in the marketplace
• Track sales and downloads with XNA and Windows Phone 7 using Dotfuscator and Runtime Intelligence

F#, IronRuby

• F# templates for Windows Phone 7 development (Version 1.1)
• New F# WP7 template using Caliburn.Micro on Visual Studio Gallery
• IronRuby for Windows Phone 7

XNA

• XNA WP7 Getting Started
• XNA Creators Club – Create Games for Windows Phone 7
• Exploring Silverlight-XNA Integration in Windows Phone 7
• Farseer Physics Engine
• Programming your first XNA 4.0 game for PC, Xbox 360 Windows Phone 7: Pong
• XNA From Silverlight on Windows Phone – The Microphone
• EasyStorage – Manage StorageDevice the easy way
  
• Saving/loading on Windows Phone 7 using Easy Storage
• Balder : A 3D Engine for Windows Phone 7, XNA & OpenGL
• WCF and XNA on Windows Phone 7 – Hack Free
• XNA and WP7 Load Times
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Gestures
• XPF – A layout framework for XNA
  
• Scripting on the Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Beyond
• Frogger game in Windows Phone 7 using XNA
• Bubble game in Windows Phone 7 using XNA
• Arkanoid in Windows Phone 7 using XNA
• Integrate a WCF service in a Windows Phone 7 XNA App
• Simple 3D Camera in XNA
• Simple Puzzle game for Windows Phone 7 using XNA
  
• Using Windows Phone 7 themes in your XNA game
• Zero Gravity Source Code (with Windows Phone 7 version) (Blog Post)
• Bar code scanning with XNA and Windows Phone 7
  
• Collision Detection on Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 XNA Tile Engine Solution
• Windows Phone 7 Game Development : Creating Tic-Tac-Toe with XNA
• How to localize the title of a Windows Phone 7 game
• Basics of Sound and Music for games on Windows Phone 7
• How to use Bing Maps in XNA Games

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