Windows Phone 7 Development

[Falken]

Just wanted to say that the SDK for Silverlight 4 was released today. That is what will be used to make applications for the Windows Phone 7 that is being released later this year. It also includes an emulator for the phones

Check it out here: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4/

And here is some video tutorials: http://silverlight.net/learn/videos/sil ... -4-videos/

Think I am gonna try it out and see if it might be worth learning

[hallsofvallhalla]

awesome! please let us know how it goes.

[Falken]

awesome! please let us know how it goes.

Hehe will do, just installed it all, gonna start with a hello world

[Jackolantern]

I will likely check this out. I love how learning one thing with .NET lets you do so much. Learn C#, and you can make slick Vista/Windows 7 desktop GUIs with WPF, use that same WPF knowledge to write Silverlight apps, use that same Silverlight knowledge to write Windows Phone 7 apps, etc. And you can also use C# to write dynamic websites with ASP.NET, Xbox 360 games with XNA and web services with WCF. All with one language

[Falken]

I will likely check this out. I love how learning one thing with .NET lets you do so much. Learn C#, and you can make slick Vista/Windows 7 desktop GUIs with WPF, use that same WPF knowledge to write Silverlight apps, use that same Silverlight knowledge to write Windows Phone 7 apps, etc. And you can also use C# to write dynamic websites with ASP.NET, Xbox 360 games with XNA and web services with WCF. All with one language

Exactly, and XNA 4.0 runs on the Windows Phone 7 too, with 3D support too.
There is also a beta for SIlverlight on Symbian phones, so maybe Windows Phone 7 apps might run on Symbian phones too!

Microsoft is really doing a great work with making stuff work cross platform, thats one of their biggest advantages over the competition I think and they are starting to use it quite well

[ZeroComp]

I looked at silverlight and thought it was only for computers and not phones as its supposed to be "Microsoft's Flash Killer"

[Jackolantern]

I looked at silverlight and thought it was only for computers and not phones as its supposed to be "Microsoft's Flash Killer"

Well, the mobile platform that Silverlight will run on, Windows Phone 7, is not out yet, so technically it is just for the computer-accessed web right now. But the news is that it will also be a major app development platform for the new windows mobile OS as well

[jpoisson]

Down With Flash!!!

[Jackolantern]

I am not a fan, either. I thought I would be, but the restrictiveness is just too much. I can understand not having free versions of AfterEffects and other Adobe products, but Flash is different. It has become so popular that it should be a web standard, but it is not. It is still proprietary software, with no real free editor. There are a couple of open-source options, but none that can really do visual design aspects, or really anything beyond simple AS3 coding, which is only half of Flash, really. HTML, CSS, JS, PHP: All only need notepad. Flash: Requires a $500 program. The W3C has been trying to find a way to deal with this, and I think Microsoft has really offered a solution, considering that everything you need to make Silverlight applications is free. Visual Studio 2008/2010 is nice, but not a requirement at all.

[Falken]

Well, the mobile platform that Silverlight will run on, Windows Phone 7, is not out yet, so technically it is just for the computer-accessed web right now.

Nope as their is a beta out for Symbian phones that you can download: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/devices/symbian/
And also as the SDK is released you can run it on a Win Phone 7 if you are lucky enough to have one, a few parterners apperently got it...