[dba-VB] Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold

Hi all

If you are serious about Windows Phone 7, this 1000+ page monster book from Microsoft is only a 13 MB download + 5 MB for code samples:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/10/28/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-by-charles-petzold.aspx 

Note this:

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To use this book properly you'll need to download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools, which includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and an on-screen Windows Phone Emulator to test your programs in the absence of an actual device. Get the latest information and downloads at http://developer.windowsphone.com. 

You can install these tools on top of Visual Studio 2010, in effect enhancing Visual Studio 2010 for phone development. That's the configuration I used.

Although you can do quite a bit with the phone emulator, at some point you'll want to deploy your programs to an actual Windows Phone 7 device. You can register as a phone developer at http://developer.windowsphone.com and then have the ability to unlock your phone so you can deploy your programs from Visual Studio. 
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/gustav