Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development - Part 2

Developing your first Windows Phone App

In this part, we will start off with developing a very simple, but fully functioning, Silverlight application for Windows Phone. After you are done with creating the application, it will allow you to browse the Internet from within the application.

Start by creating a new Silverlight for Windows Phone Application project as described in Part 1 of the blog series.

Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development - Part 1

Understanding the development environment

To begin developing applications for Windows Phone 7 devices, you will first need to download and install some development tools for the same. You can find the Windows Phone Developer Tools at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=04704acf-a63a-4f97-952c-8b51b34b00ce. The package installed from the App Hub includes everything you need to start developing for Windows Phone 7 including Visual Studio 2010 Express, Microsoft Expression Blend and Windows Phone Emulator among other tools. It is also recommended to download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23854 after installing the Windows Phone Developer Tools.