Microsoft has added five new labs to its Windows Phone 7 Training Kit - and all for free.

• Complete Windows Phone Training Kit for Developers that includes both Silverlight and XNA Framework labs
• Windows Phone Training Kit for Silverlight Developers that includes only the Silverlight labs
• Windows Phone Training Kit for XNA Framework Developers that includes only the XNA Framework labs

As usual, you can go to the online version on Channel 9.

The five new labs are:

• Using Silverlight Map Control and Bing Services
• Building Silverlight Applications Using Panorama and Pivot Controls
• Catapult Wars - A 2D Physics Game
• Using Choosers and Handling Tombstone in XNA Framework Games
• 3D Game Development with XNA Framework

 All of the labs have been updated to support the RTM tools.

Before you try the lab on the Panorama control a better starting point is our tutorial:

Windows Phone 7 - using the Panorama control

It explains how it all works so that the lab will make better sense..

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Further Reading

Windows Phone 7 - using the Panorama control

Windows Phone 7 - Snakes on a Phone Part 1

Windows Phone 7 Go Faster resources

Getting started with Windows Phone 7

Free Windows Phone 7 video training from Microsoft

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Windows 7 Phone - developer tools in beta