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Microsoft announced the free version of mobile phone software development kit for Windows Phone 7 on Thursday, according to foreign media reports. This is the official version of the Windows Phone 7 SDK.

[51cto comprehensive report] in Microsoft's official release of Windows Phone 7 development roadmap, we introduced the development tool for Windows Phone 7 to be released today. This may be the first time that Microsoft has frequently upgraded the SDK of a product, from the CTP in December, to the CTP refresh in December, and then the beta version in December. Finally, we ushered in the official version of the Windows Phone 7 SDK. Microsoft announced the free version of mobile phone software development kit for Windows Phone 7 on Thursday, September 17, Beijing time. At the same time, more details of third-party applications are released, which will become available with the release of Windows Phone 7 during the holiday season this year. Netflix, Twitter, OpenTable, flixster, and Travelocity have both confirmed their plans to develop applications for Windows Phone 7.

The most attractive part of the official version of the SDK is the addition of the two most important controls in the Windows Phone 7 Metro UI: panorama (panoramic view), pivot view, and Bing map control. For panorama and ghost, the corresponding engineering wizard template has been installed in Visual Studio 2010 and blend for Windows Phone. When creating a new project, you can directly choose to use it, which is indeed much more convenient:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 and Windows Vista

◆ Windows Vista (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2-apart from the starter version

◆ Windows 7 (x86 and x64)-apart from the starter version

◆ 3 GB hard disk space is retained on the system disk.

◆ 2 GB RAM

Windows Phone emulator requires a graphics card with wddm 1.1 driver and DirectX 10 support.

Windows Phone Developer Tools contains:

◆ Visual Studio 2010 express for Windows Phone

◆ Windows Phone emulator Resources

◆ Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio

◆ XNa game studio 4.0

◆ Microsoft Expression blend for Windows Phone

To install Windows Phone Developer Tools, your system must meet the following requirements:

To install Windows Phone Developer Tools, you can download the online installation package to install it. If you prefer local installation, you can download this ISO file. The official version of developer training kit is also available. You can download the full version of training kit, the part for Silverlight for Windows Phone, or the xNa part.

 

At the same time, Brandon Watson, director of Microsoft's mobile communication business department, wrote on his blog: "some famous players in the application and gaming fields are preparing to bring high-quality content to Windows Phone 7." Watson said that developers need to use this final version of the toolkit to ensure that their applications can be sold on Windows Phone marketplace.

In terms of mobile advertising transactions, Microsoft said it had the ability to allow advertisers to locate their ads based on user statistics, operators, locations, and other factors. At the same time, Microsoft has released more third-party applications for Windows Phone 7, which will become available with the release of Windows Phone 7 during the holiday season this year. Some well-known applications, such as Netflix, Twitter, OpenTable, flixster, and Travelocity, have confirmed their plans to develop applications for Windows Phone 7. It seems that Windows Phone 7 has to compete with iPhone and Android!

Windows Phone 7 development tools:

◆ Windows Phone Developer Tools

◆ Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for developers