I'm going be a Windows Phone 7 App Writer

After TechEd, various internal events and some pretty nifty demos from the guys at Readify, its about time I stopped playing with emulators and wrote something. This post contains a bunch of developer readiness resources to help me and perhaps you, get started. First off some of the pre and post TechEd AU press

•  Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010: all about Phone 7 (ZDnet)
•  Microsoft goes Willy Wonka for Windows Phone 7 giveaways at Tech.Ed Australia 2010 (Long Zheng, istartedsomething.com)
•  Microsoft aims to gain ground with Windows Phone 7 (International Business Times)
• Hands on with Windows Phone 7 down under (Gizmodo)

Thanks to Andy Reay for sending me some early developer book links:

1. Charles Petzold's book on Windows Phone 7 is available as a free download. See the MS Press blog entry

Here are all the links you need for the ebook previews - Programming Windows Phone 7 Part 1, Part 1 Code samples, Part 2, Part 2 Code samples

2.  Also see this sampler of Laurence Moroney’s forthcoming book, Silverlight 4 Step by Step.

3. Another excerpt specifically around Silverlight 4 for Windows Phone 7 might also be of interest

Where to get started?

http://developer.windowsphone.com

Other resources:

• Training Kit
• Jumpstart
• Microsoft MSDN Videos: Building Windows Phone 7 Apps with Azure
• Social App – Twitter example
• Architecting
• Port from iPhone
• Templates
• Augmented reality
• Windows Phone 7 Apps in 7 mins