Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of:

• A case study for Building Advanced Windows Phone Applications
• Building Testable Windows Phone Applications
• Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern

Resources:

>> Go to Patterns & Practices: Windows Phone Guidance Home on MSDN
>> On Codeplex: http://wp7guide.codeplex.com

Tags: Patterns and Practices, Windows Phone

A new toolkit helps you join Windows Phone applications with Windows Azure.Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 helps ease the building Windows Phone 7 applications that use services running on Windows Azure.

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure, class libraries optimized for use on the phone, sample applications, and documentation.

The toolkit provides you with:

• Binaries for your Windows Phone 7 applications
• Project templates to optimize new phone application creation
• Sample applications in both C# and VB.NET
• A dependency checker that checks the prerequisites required by the toolkit
• Setup and configuration documentation, toolkit content review, a getting started walkthrough, and troubleshooting tips

For more information, see NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

Tags: Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7