New Windows Phone Labs

Saturday, 18 September 2010

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

Microsoft has updated its Windows Phone Training Kit for Developers. With five new labs, the Kit now has a total of 12 labs which can be downloaded in three customised modules:

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.

phonelab

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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