As of 9th of July the Windows Phone 7 development tools are out of CTP and entered it’s final stage before release, Beta. There’s a lot of news and features.
One of the tings available now is the Windows Phone 7 application certification requirements. You now have a full overview of the requirements and tests your application needs to pass to be allowed submission into the Microsoft Marketplace.
Expression Blend 4 for Windows phone is now integrated into the beta tools install.
As we are getting ready for launch of developer and consumer devices there’s a new registration tool for development devices.
Microsoft has also consolidated a lot of the DLL’s that shipped with the earlier CTP releases. You can read the full release note on MSDN.
The Windows Phone Developer blog has a great blog post regarding the beta release. Read it here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/07/12/windows-phone-developer-tools-beta-released.aspx
There’s also a blog post on the Windows Phone Developer training kit with updates on new features. Read the post here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/07/13/windows-phone-developer-training-kit-beta-refresh.aspx
Happy coding!
