Development Tools and Documentation

• AppHub: Windows Phone Developer Portal
• Windows Phone Developer Tools
• Silverlight Control Toolkit for Windows Phone – Nov 2011: additional controls for Windows Phone application development.
• UI Design and Interaction Guide: The Windows Phone 7 design philosophy, the Metro design language and UI guidelines.
• Reference documentation for Windows Phone, XNA Game Studio, Silverlight and Expression Blend

Training Content

• Training Kits – A collection of Silverlight and XNA Hands-on Labs for Windows Phone.
  • Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit
  • Windows Phone 7.5 Developer Training Kit
• Designing for Windows Phone Training Content
  • Windows Phone 7 Design Tutorials: a collection of tutorials on using Microsoft Expression Blend to design and build Windows Phone 7 applications.
  • .toolbox courses: a course curriculum for creating Silverlight applications and learning design principles with Expression Studio.
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training: A multi-part video training series from Microsoft MVP’s Rob Miles and Andy Wigley
  • Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training
  • Windows Phone Codename “Mango” Jumpstart
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 Education Series: A set of education material for all skill levels covering the Platform, Performance and the Polish of for Game Development on Windows Phone 7.
• Windows Phone development quickstarts – introduces the basics for creating Windows Phone applications.
• Code Samples for Windows Phone: a collection of samples covering the Windows Phone API’s.
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners: This video series helps aspiring Windows Phone 7 developers get started.
• Windows Phone 7: “How do I?” Videos: a collection of video shorts (10-15 minutes) highlighting specific tasks in Windows Phone development.

Development Frameworks, Toolkits and Resources

• Windows Phone Starter Kits:
  • Starter Kit for WordPress
  • Starter Kit for RSS
  • Starter Kit for Schools/Clubs
  • Starter Kit for Podcasts
• Silverlight Contorl Toolkit
• Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit
• MVVMLight Toolkit
• Phoney Tools

Blogs

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Blog: the official blog of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Experience team
• Windows Phone 7 Blog: official blog of the Windows Phone 7 product team
• Windows Phone Developer Team: Peter Torr, Jeff Wilcox, Shawn Oster, David Anson
• Shawn Hargreaves Blog: Game Programming with the XNA Framework.
• Windows Phone Technical Evangelists: Dave Bost, Chris Koenig, Jeff Blankenburg

Online Resources and Community

• Phone Development on MSDN
• AppHub Forums
• Windows Phone Forums on MSDN
• Windows Phone on StackOverflow.com
• Windows Phone Development on Reddit
• Matt Hidinger’s Real Word WP Dev
• Jeff Blankenburg’s 31 Days of Windows Phone
• Jeff Blankenburg’s 31 Days of Mango
• Jeff Blankenburg’s "What I Learned in WP7"
• Inside Windows Phone: Channel9 Video Series
• Windows Phone on Channel9
• My Windows Phone Twitter List – people that I follow on Twitter who are strong contributors to the Windows Phone Community

Books

• Migrating to Windows Phone: Book by Jesse Liberty and Jeff Blankenburg
• Programming Windows Phone 7: Free E-book by Charles Petzold
• Learning Windows Phone: Book by Yochay Kiraty & Jaime Rodriquez

Conference Sessions (On-Demand)

• Windows Phone Camps Online Denmark – December 5 – 6, 2011
• Phone & Web UX Tour Belgium – November 3, 2011
• Windows Phone Camps USA Online – October 20 – 21, 2011
• BUILD2011 – Anaheim, CA, September 13 – 16, 2011
• TechEd Austrailia 2011 – Gold Coast, August 30 – September 2, 2011
• TechEd 2011 – Atlanta, GA, May 16 – 19, 2011
• MIX11 – Las Vegas, NV, April 12 – 14, 2011
• TechEd Austrailia – Gold Coast, August 24 – 27, 2010
• MIX10 – Las Vegas, NV, March 13 – 15, 2010