If you’ve already downloaded the free ebook Programming Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft Press and you still want more, visit the Windows Phone developer resources pages on App Hub. The team has created topic pages so you can learn everything you need to know to create great apps and games for Windows...

Greetings. Just a quick note today to share this news: the beta release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools that support Mango will be available for download sometime today. Here’s some information from Matt Bencke’s announcement on the Windows Phone Developer Blog: First the tools. Developers can use...

Jason Jacobs, CEO of RunKeeper (a mobile fitness platform for runners and other fitness enthusiasts) shares his experiences with developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform with Brian Gorbett, Senior Architect Evangelist. Jason describes Windows Phone 7 as a powerful channel to gain new users and a way...

This is just a quick note to point you to three new videos released today, featuring Brandon Watson interviewing the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango: Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications (with Ian Todd) Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search (with Jared Brown) Inside...

Greetings, everyone. Charles Petzold’s free 24-chapter ebook, Programming Windows Phone 7 , which you can find here , has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, which pleases us very much. We’re happy you find the work helpful, and we’re currently planning a second edition of the ebook (which...

Looking for a way to get into mobile development? Build a game with a little help from this open source project on CodePlex. ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project...

That's right, Microsoft MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (plus an update course) last year and it was an absolute smash. Mobile application developers raved about the fast-paced, demo-rich approach, the timeliness of real-world content...

Register Now https://www.eventbuilder.com/microsoft/event_desc.asp?p_event=m58m12c5 Dates: August 23-24, 2011 Time: 8:00am – 4:00pm PST Duration: 8 hours/day, including hour lunch break Join the Mango Momentum in the App Hub | Mango is an important leap forward in Microsoft’s overall...

In case you missed it, check out Todd Brix’s “ Marketplace & Tools Open for Mango App Submission ” post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog. Here’s the opening of the post: We promised in late July that August would bring another round of developer...( read more ) ...read more

Microsoft has released updates to the Windows Azure toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS (i.e., iPhone & iPad) this week, as well as offered a new toolkit: the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android . You can find much more information in the following posts...( read more ) ...read more

Remember the “Mango” Jump Start online training event that took place in August ? The videos of this training are now available. Who is the target audience for this training and what’s the high-level overview? Targets mobile application developers, technical...( read more ) ...read more

Remember the “Mango” Jump Start online training event that took place in August ? The videos of this training are now available. Who is the target audience for this training and what’s the high-level overview? Targets mobile application developers, technical...( read more ) ...read more

Hello. Andrew Whitechapel, who is working on a book titled Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Microsoft Press, 2012), has an article in the November 2011 issue of MSDN Magazine called “Building a ‘Mango’ App.” The article describes use of some of...( read more ) ...read more

Here’s the sixth post in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized technology champions around the world with the MVP Award . MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial and objective feedback...

Greetings. This month the number of downloads of Charles Petzold’s free ebook Programming Windows Phone 7 (including the two earlier draft versions of the ebook we also released) surpassed 600,000. This is the number of actual downloads, folks, not the number of views of the blog posts sharing the ebooks...

We’re pleased to announce the release to manufacturing of the book Windows Phone 7 Development Internals , by Andrew Whitechapel, who is a senior member of the core Windows Phone Application Platform team. This book covers the breadth of application development for the Windows Phone 7 platform (both...

We’re happy to announce the availability of Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise , by the well-known and prolific author Dino Esposito. This book is an architectural guide to a paradigm shift. Paradigm shifts just happen—and mobile represents a big one. Mobile enables both new business scenarios...

Updated We just released the RTM version of our Windows Server 2012 ebook. Check it out! PDF - Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition - PDF ebook EPUB – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – ePub format MOBI – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – MOBI format (for Kindle)  ...

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the new book Windows Phone 7 Development Internals , by Andrew Whitechapel, a senior member of the core Windows Phone Application Platform team. This book covers the breadth of application development for the Windows Phone 7 platform (both the major 7.0 and...

Perhaps you're familiar with our unique approach to publishing Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, Sixth Edition . Via this approach you're able to purchase two preview ebooks and the final ebook at one time at special pricing. This is a quick post to tell you that we're using a similar...

To celebrate Windows Phone 8 and //build/ , Microsoft Press is making Windows Phone 8 Development Internals available in two preview digital editions—plus the final ebook, when ready—at special promotional pricing. Purchase between October 30 and November 5, 2012, and your cost is just $10...

Check out the MSDN Magazine article by Microsoft Press author, Andrew Whitechapel, on building an app for Windows Phone and iOS. MSDN Magazine article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj658972.aspx There’s also an interesting follow up to his article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b...

Here’s the 20th post in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). (Click the “MVPs” tag in the right column to see the rest.) Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized technology champions around the world with the MVP Award . MVPs freely share their knowledge, real...

If you missed the live Jump Start, you can view the recorded version for free on the Microsoft Virtual Academy site here: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/building-apps-for-windows-phone-8-jump-start Description: This course is tailored for developers looking to leverage C#/XAML to build...

The Microsoft Virtual Academy has announced the availability of three Jump Starts. If you missed the live events, you can watch the recorded sessions on demand. Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start Principal Program Manager Scott Hanselman and Technical Evangelist Jon Galloway provide an...