Build your first Windows Phone 7 app

  • Knowledge needed: General C# and basic XAML
  • Requires: Visual Studio 2010 Express, Windows 7 Operating System, Windows Phone 7 SDK
  • Project Time: Two to four hours depending upon the speed of your internet connection and computer
  • Support file

Whether any of us like to admit it or not, mobile is here. It has been and will continue to be a core skillset that every developer will need to embrace. But how does someone new to mobile applications get started in mobile software development? Better yet, what if you have already built mobile applications on one platform and want to see the process of building an application on another one? This is what this article aims to accomplish. Get everyone up to speed with developing their first Windows Phone 7 application from start to finish.

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