On the road Windows Phone (ii) How to learn Windows Phone development?

Although Windows Phone has not yet officially entered the mainland market, but there are more and more domestic developers looking at it, the question before me is how to learn about Windows Phone development? If you don't feel that way about it, maybe this article will give you some insight.

A new experience, a new beginning

The purpose of learning Windows Phone development is to develop Windows Phone apps, but what is the best application? There is no doubt that we need some role models as a reference, and we want to know what a standard Windows Phone application should be, and that's the first step in learning about Windows Phone development.

Generally speaking, we have the following 3 ways to experience Windows Phone:

Buy a Windows Phone phone to personally experience it. This is the simplest direct, if you are really going to join the Windows Phone Development camp, Windows Phone phone is a must, buy after don't rush to jailbreak, first in the identity of a regular user for a period of time, and observe and experience the built-in application is how to design.

If you're still on the sidelines, don't want to start now Windows Phone phone, then you can through the online video indirectly experience, here recommend a "read Windows Phone 7 Mango" video (English), a short span of 15 minutes to cover the live Tiles, contacts, messages, Multiple features such as Office, games, multitasking, Bing, and more. In addition, the official windowsphone.com also has very rich video and text content.

If you like to read, here are the Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple and Windows Phone 7 for Dummies, which contain a lot of screenshots and detail the steps to use Windows Phone, with the only The foot is missing Windows Phone 7.5, but it's enough to understand the Windows Phone experience.