Hour 2. Getting Started with Visual C# 2010 for Windows Phone

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Using Visual C# 2010 Express

Creating Silverlight projects and using Expression Blend

Creating XNA Game Studio projects

In this hour, we will explore the development environment used to write code for the Windows Phone 7 platform (a word that encompasses all devices running the mobile operating system). If you are an experienced developer, some of the information in this hour might seem redundant or too basic. The goal is to provide information specific to Windows Phone development for a developer who might already know another language but who is new to Visual C# 2010 and/or XNA Game Studio. We’ll take a leisurely pace early on so that we can ...

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