Windows Phone 7 Development tutorial (1)--windows phone development tools First experience

This is an article written for the April issue of the "programmer", which is double surprise--windows Phone Developer tools First Experience added some content, including WebBrowser space, MediaPlayer space, and a very simple XNA program. There are some helpful friends who want to be interested in Windows phone development.

The Windows Phone development tool is hot on mix 2010. The pent-up enthusiasm of Windows Mobile developers has finally erupted, with Windows Phone's gorgeous turn, the developers are mixed, some people to Silverlight, XNA and other new technology is full of anticipation, someone to discard previous version compatibility, do not support C + + Develop a whiny complaint.

Anyway, windows Phone brings us a new user experience, new development tool, better than getting the developer to grow old with the old Windows mobile face. Let's take a look at what surprises, er, or surprise the developers with the Windows Phone development tool.

The Community Preview (CTP) of Windows phone development tools can be downloaded from MSDN. These include Visual studio Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone emulator, Silverlight for Windows Phone, and XNA 4.0 Game Studio. Currently, Windows Phone development tool can only be installed on Windows 7 and Vista SP2, and also requires a video card to support DirectX 10.

After opening vs 2010, my feeling of mixed feelings is that Windows Phone offers two different development platforms: Silverlight for Windows phone and XNA 4.0, and the worry is that previous Windows Mobile C + + and. NET The Compact framework is not in use. As a result, previous Windows mobile programmers had to undergo a painful process of transformation.

Next, let's take a look at Windows Phone's double surprise!

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Silverlight for Windows Phone is almost a joke, and Windows Mobile programmers are complaining that Silverlight on Symbian is out, where is the Silverlight on Windows Mobile? This time, Silverlight for Windows phone is coming, and all applications on Windows Phone must be written in Silverlight.

The biggest advantage of Silverlight is the seamless integration with Expression Blend, which allows you to quickly design a very beautiful user interface that frees programmers from tedious UI development. and Silverlight for Windows phone is no longer a subset of Silverlight, but it supports all of the features of Silverlight. The advantage is that existing Silverlight programs are easy to migrate to Windows phone phones.

Under XNA Game Studio 4.0 on the Program menu, open vs 2010, create a new project, find three templates under Visual C #, and choose Windows Phone application.