Windows Phone Developer Tools ( CTP ) Released

Recently , Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP .

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The development platform for the applications are Silverlight based .The GUI looks good and clean too.

The runtimes supported are Silverlight, XNA Framework and .NET Compact Framework .

The developers can use the following frameworks for development

    Silverlight for developing XAML based Applications
    XNA for developing games.

The following tools can be used to develop and test the Windows phone applications .To test on the real device , the developers have to wait for some time .

  • Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
  • Windows Phone Emulator CTP
  • Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
  • XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP
  • Expression Blend 4

    • The article in the MSDN states that there is already Add-in to integrate it to the existing visual studio version .

    Visit Microsoft’s Download Center to download the Windows Phone Developer Tools

    Looks like the Windows Phone 7 development tools for Visual Studio will be free to download .

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