Windows Phone 7 developers finally get the final

If Microsoft and its telephone partners genuinely do end up delivering the first Windows Phone seven units in October in Europe and November within the U.S., Microsoft is certain cutting it near in acquiring the final version of the advancement equipment for all those products within the fingers of coders.Developers had been in a position to obtain their fingers around the last construct of the Windows Telephone tools nowadays, September sixteen, as Microsoft execs promised several weeks ago.As the Softies noted in a brand new blog post currently, the ultimate Windows Telephone seven instruments release is necessary for devs who hope to have their apps inside the Windows Phone Market, which opens for company in “early October.”“For developers to put their apps into the market, opening in early October, you will need to download this version with the resources. Any application built with a previous edition with the tools will fail application certification inside the Marketplace,” blogged Brandon Watson, a Director in Microsoft;s Mobile Communications Enterprise unit.The lack of the final version with the instruments seemingly hasn;t hampered some of Microsoft;s Windows Phone 7 advancement app-development partners. Twitter, Netflix, OpenTable, Flixster and Travelocity showed off on September 15 versions of their respective apps that worked from within the Windows Phone seven;s browser. Windows Phone 7 apps. As TechFlash reported, YouTube also showed off the ability to view content on WP7 products from within the WP7 browser.
The Windows Telephone seven tool suite includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, the Windows Telephone Emulator, Expression Blend 4 for Windows Telephone, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and a just-added Bing Maps software advancement kit (SDK) control. “The (Windows Telephone 7 tool) installer is smart enough to download only what you need, and the resources will work with your existing Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 installations,” Watson blogged.Microsoft also is releasing a separate Silverlight for Windows Telephone Toolkit, Watson said, which will include six controls released for download from the Codeplex site under the Microsoft MS-PL open-source license. These supplemental controls do things like handle “gesture events,” like tap, double-tap, hold, drag, etc. Others include date picker and time pickerThe Microsoft Advertising team also announced its own SDK for Windows Phone 7 on September sixteen: The Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone seven, as well because the Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile. The Exchange is “the industry’s very first real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile,” Microsoft officials claimed, and is designed to provide display-ad serving, enabling developers to construct ad-supported apps.Microsoft is expected to “soft-launch” Windows Telephone 7 on October 11.Just a few of you readers have asked me if I;m ready to shell out to buy a Windows Phone 7. I can;t say yes for sure, as I;m not among the chosen couple of who;ve gotten one of these early loaners to test drive. I never bought a Windows Mobile telephone, as I (and my many different carriers) felt they weren;t the best smartphones for the money. I;m reserving judgment on Windows Telephone 7 until I can find one that I like with a reasonable data plan. If I don;t — who knows — maybe I;ll succumb to an Android phone.