Yesterday marked the kickoff of MIX10 and anyone on Twitter or any other online source couldn’t help but see a flurry of information coming out of MIX10.  I thought I would put up some of the interesting tidbits and items I saw from the day for those of you interested.

Windows Phone 7 Series Keynote Announcements from MIX10

Announcing Silverlight 4 Release Candidate – John Papa and Adam Kinney follow up the MIX10 keynote announcement of Silverlight 4 RC by discussing what is new and what materials have been released on the Channel 9 learning center website.

60+ page whitepaper that covers the full feature list of all the new features in Silverlight 4 online (or you can download it).

- Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series, by Charles Petzold!

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone announced!  (Click image for more information)

- Use Silverlight & XNA frameworks to create games & interactive, high-quality apps for Windows Phone 7 Series.  Code samples, developer guides, developer tools, and more available for download!

- Get started with and download Silverlight 4.0 today!  Silverlight adoption has continued at a rapid pace with installations approaching 60 percent of all Internet devices worldwide!

- Expression Blend 4 Beta announced – Download here

Expression Blend Add-in announced that let’s you build applications for the Windows Phone.  Components you will need installed for developing Windows Phone apps:

Expression Blend 4 Beta Windows Phone Developer Tools Microsoft Expression Blend Add-in Preview for Windows Phone Microsoft Expression Blend SDK Preview for Windows Phone

Thank you and have a wonderful day,

Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER and RSS
Global Partner Experience Lead
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group
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