Microsoft WP7 Development Tool Official edition published

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft said in an official blog that Microsoft officially released the Windows Phone 7 development tool final version.

Developers can use this development tool to develop applications and upload them to the Windows Phone Marketplace App Store at the beginning of October.

"If developers want to upload apps to marketplace, they have to download the official version of the developer tool," Brandon Watson, head of Microsoft's mobile communications business, Branton Wossen. Applications developed using previous versions of the tools will not be validated by marketplace. ”

The Windows Phone 7 Development Kit includes visual Studio Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone emulator, Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio 4.0 and the newly added Bing Map SDK.

It is said that the official version of Windows Phone 7 development tool will be able to automatically download components on demand, developers already have visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 will not have to repeat the download, installation.