Windows Phone 7 – List of Tutorials and Resources

Following up on yesterday’s post on Windows Phone 7 development, here’s a few of the tutorials and guides I’ve been looking at the past few days. There’s a lot of info to digest so I’ll be adding to this post as I come across more resoucres.

Tutorials and Samples

• Scott Guthrie’s Tutorial
  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a-windows-phone-7-twitter-application-using-silverlight.aspx
• Introduction to Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Creating a list application
  http://10rem.net/blog/2010/03/15/building-your-first-silverlight-for-windows-phone-application
• Introduction to XNA
  http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/windows/introduction-to-xna-on-windows-phone-7/
• Channel 9 Developer Training Kit
  http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/
• Code Samples for Windows Phone
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431744(VS.92).aspx
• Charles Petzold’s Free ebook
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/03/15/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-series-draft-preview.aspx

Blogs/Community

• Windows Phone Developer Blog
  http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/b/wpdev/
• Smarty Pants Coding
  http://www.smartypantscoding.com/
• Nick Gravelyn’s Blog – Focused on the XNA Framework and game development
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nicgrave/
• Jesse Liberty – Check out the mini-tutorials
  http://jesseliberty.com/Tags/phone/
• Paul Thurrott
  http://windowsphonesecrets.com/
• Windows Phone 7 Forums
  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7series/threads

Documentation and Resources

• Official Developer Portal
  http://developer.windowsphone.com/
• Class Library Reference
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff626516(v=VS.92).aspx
• Programming Guide for Windows Phone
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402551(v=VS.92).aspx
• Developer Tools Resouces – Getting started and Developer Fundamentals
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402523(v=VS.92).aspx
• Design Resources
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637515(VS.92).aspx
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training Resources
  http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/wp7/m/classresources/default.aspx