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Windows Phone 7 has been RTM today (1st Sept 2010). Tally-ho!

I am attending the XBLIG user groups first meeting with my Windows Phone 7 dev lab tonight in Coventry. If you have a Windows Phone 7 app or game then do come along – bring your projects XAP file on a memory stick so we can deployed it to a Windows Phone 7 Prototype so you can see how it runs. All event details are here: XBLIG UG Oh and by the ...

Well, a rugged flight case! This case contains 12 Windows Phone 7 prototypes and all the stuff needed to make them useful. I set this case up this morning for the dev labs we have running. Current available dev lab slots are: September 1st,6th,13th,16th,21st,22nd,24th,28th,29th October 6th, 7th Book your slot in the XAP-A-THON today by ...

New content to help you build XNA games for Windows Phone 7 has been published on the Creators Club website. Lots of great samples so go check it out!! [All items can also be found in the Education Roadmap] 2D + Touch Game Lab – “Catapult Wars” [Get it Here] ...

:-) that's the spirit Chris. Be great to hear if you are doing any dev on your iPad and how you are finding it in use. Cheers Paul

Since before Mix10 I have been busy working with brilliant software developers all over the UK building fantastic games and apps for the new Windows Phone 7. Using Silverlight or XNA with Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4 productivity is amazing and the quality of applications will set new standards of expectation in mobile apps. With these projects ...

I am very excited to report that Henry and team won Dare to be Digital over the last weekend and have had their Windows Phone 7 game nominated for a BAFTA :-) Well done guys! If you are a software developer building Windows Phone 7 applications/games in the UK then please get in touch. I am running a series of ‘XAP-athons’ in London where you ...

Stumbled upon Rob’s blog post on encrypting data on Windows Phone 7. It is a nice walk-through with code sample. Take a look!

Just saw this story on Mark Prigg’s technology blog on the London Evening Standard site. Apparently Tim Koelekebeck, of MyType, which carried out the survey of 20,000 Americans, said iPad owners were six times more likely to be "wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, overachieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30 to ...

With the refresh of the tools we see significant advances in the implementation of the Windows Phone 7 execution model. Developers of WP7 applications should take the time to read about the Execution Model and how it affects your application. This is critically important to ensure your users have the best experience. A summary of the Execution ...