Windows Phone 7 RTM’d

Today Microsoft’s the most incredible product development is finalized that Windows Phone 7 has been Released To Manufacturing (RTM). Windows Phone 7 RTM has been sent to Microsoft’s hardware and carrier partners so that they can integrate their own software and services solutions and ship new devices to customers later in the year.

Microsoft thanks to everyone and stated that the Windows Phone 7 RTM is consequence of the tremendous efforts of the entire team including partners, early adopters, and independent software developers providing feedback.

The testing phase of Windows Phone 7 was extreme. The company had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes before hitting RTM milestone.

Terry Myerson said:
The final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete.

Microsoft is planning to ship Windows Phone 7 in October for those in Europe and November for those in the US.

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Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 Special Excerpt 2 is available, Download now

Here comes an-other update for developers; Special Excerpt 2 of Programming Windows Phone 7 is available now. Its 2nd preview of book entitled “Programming Windows 7 Phone” authored by Microsoft MVP Charles Petzold. The book will be finalized by upcoming PDC 10 (October 28th, 2010) And, guess what: it will also be free.

This book is for .NET Programmers or who knows the basic principles of .NET programming and working familiarity with the C# programming language. This excerpt preview has 11 chapters (and 265 pages) categorized in 3 parts viz Getting Started, Silverlight & XNA. The chapters are:

Part I The Basics	Part II Silverlight	Part III XNA
Chapter 1 Hello, Windows Phone 7	Chapter 7 XAML Power and Limitations	Chapter 20 Principles of Movement
Chapter 2 Getting Oriented	Chapter 8 Elements and Properties	Chapter 21 Textures and Sprites
Chapter 3 An Introduction to Touch		Chapter 22 Touch and Play
Chapter 4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures
Chapter 5 Sensors and Services
Chapter 6 Issues in Application Architecture

The guide can be downloaded here [XPS format] and [PDF format]. The Code samples for this draft preview are also available. [Code Samples]. You can find more resources, developer guides & tools and books to learn key concepts for programming Windows Phones. Read More.

Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta is available, Download Now

Over the past few months Windows Phone Developer Tools releases (CTPs and Beta) are made available to developers to build application for new upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system which may be RTM’d by this October and will be available in Stores by this Christmas.

All releases are being offered as web installer, that requires internet connection to download bootstrapper  for Windows Phone Developer Tools. And for few folks, it can be a trouble to get it on low-bandwidth connection. Unfortunately, the CTP Refresh only ships as a web download bootstrapper and not as a full install package that can be downloaded as a single package and installed offline without requiring Internet connectivity.

With the release of first beta of Windows Phone Developer Tools, Microsoft has provided an ISO image that can be burned to a CD and installed Offline.

The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes the following:

· Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta

· Windows Phone Emulator Beta

· Silverlight for Windows Phone Beta

· Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone Beta

· XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta

The web installer is still available and can be opted the most appropriate for you.

Windows Phone Developer Tools: Offline ISO Image [Size: 429.5MB] | Web Installer

You can find more resources, developer guides and books to learn key concepts for programming Windows Phones. Read More.

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