Windows Phone

Microsoft Tellme, Microsoft’s voice recognition service, is deeply integrated into the upcoming release of Windows Phone 7. In a new video demo posted here, this integration is on display, showing how you can press and hold the start key to access the voice interface. Once activated, you can…

The Windows Phone Developer Tools are now available in beta format. You can grab the download here and read the detailed release notes here. However, there are a few key items which you should know about, including the following: Expression Blend 4 is now completely integrated A new registration…

Long Zheng of the popular tech blog istartedsomething.com just unearthed a handy resource for Windows Phone 7 developers: Photoshop templates for building app mock-ups. These templates, available here on MSDN, let you mock up a Windows Phone 7 application’s UI in Adobe Photoshop. Included in the…

Boys without Foys Episode 5 with Adam and Paul share their insights on what is being chatted about on Microsoft's campus.Here's what is going on this week...Next Billion Dollar Business? Worldwide Partner ConferenceLittle Search Engine that CouldWP7 Gets Best of KinKin's on Amazon -- $0.01!Free MSDN…

Jump start your development of Windows Phone 7 applications by attending Windows Phone 7 JumpStart. This free virtual live class, comprised of four instructor-led 3 hour sessions, will guide you in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform using Silverlight and XNA.Watch the sessions…

Mike Ormonod recently created a Windows Phone 7 application called Vuvuzela, which everyone knows by now to be the obnoxious but fun South African horns that made the rounds at this year’s World Cup. Although the World Cup has come to an end and the Vuvuzela madness may soon be forgotten, the…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to developing applications for Windows Phone 7.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this introduces the design of Windows Phone 7, options for creating applications (using Silverlight and…

Both Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight take advantage of a powerful new paradigm for declaratively creating user interfaces that leverage the graphics power innate in modern personal computers. As we move that same technology into the phone space and beyond we…

Last week at TechEd Clint showed off his T-Shirt cannon and presented a session about how to build the mobile controller using Windows Phone and Microsoft Silverlight. This week on MSDN Radio we sit down and find out what’s possible when you’re looking beyond the software.   MSDN Radio…

Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx