Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Resources

One of the more popular questions I get these days is where to start with Windows Phone 7.  I thought I would share the list of links I have been sending to people to help get them started.  It includes overview material and videos, hands on labs, links to the tools as well as the official blogs and twitter accounts.

 Windows Phone 7 Videos on YouTube (Great way to show people the new phone and UI)

http://www.youtube.com/windowsphone#p/a/u/0/wlJ_fLPpmdM

Windows Phone 7 Customer Demo Site (Interactive demo of the UI)

http://windowsphone7.com

Developer Portal (Marketplace registration and tools as well)

http://developer.windowsphone.com

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta (Released on July 12th and now includes all the Expression Blend for Windows Phone bits!)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8496c2a-54d9-4b11-9491-a1bfaf32f2e3&displaylang=en

OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7 Series CTP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b251b247-70ca-4887-bab6-dccdec192f8d&displaylang=en

 
Windows Phone 7 Training Kit 

• This includes detailed training labs and step by step guides on the tools, Silverlight, XNA and Windows Phone 7 platform.
• http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/

XNA Creators Club (Windows Phone 7 Games Development)

http://creators.xna.com

Windows Phone 7 Games Development.  Which should I use XNA Game Studio or Silverlight?

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/article/whichproductforWindowsPhone

MIX10 Day 1 Keynote (Windows Phone 7 starts at 27 mins in)

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/KEY01

MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Videos and Slides

http://live.visitmix.com/search?term=phone&x=0&y=0

MS TechEd 2010 Windows Phone 7 Videos and Slides

http://www.msteched.com/Tracks/WindowsPhone

Windows Phone 7 Online Documentation (MSDN)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402535(VS.92).aspx

Windows Phone 7 Developer Blog

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/

Windows Phone 7 Community Samples and Links

http://www.reddit.com/r/wp7dev

Windows Phone 7 Developer Team on Twitter

http://twitter.com/wp7dev

Windows Phone 7 Local Champs
http://twitter.com/wp7dev/champs

Bing Windows Phone 7 Search

http://www.bing.com/search?q=windows+phone+7

Windows Phone 7 Dev Twitter Search (#wp7dev)

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wp7dev

YouTube - Windows Phone 7 Apps in Progress (wp7dev search)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wp7dev

Windows Phone 7 Design Resources (includes official design guidelines and Photoshop templates)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637515(v=VS.92).aspx 

Charles Petzold's Programming Windows Phone 7 Free E-Book (11 Chapters!)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/08/02/free-ebook-petzold-s-programming-windows-phone-7-special-excerpt-2.aspx