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This year at MIX10 we brought the ghost of MEDC back to life by adding Windows Phone 7 to a conference that typically targets web designers and developers.  We even saw Scottgu develop the first-ever Twitter app for our forthcoming phone platform.  The big news back at Barcelona was how we’ve breathed new life into the Smartphone space by building something that doesn’t look like a me-too copy of all our competitors.

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At MIX10, it was time to show application and game developers that we not only have the best mobile platform for them, but we also have the best tools.  We launched a Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Preview that includes:

  • Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
  • XNA Game Studio 4.0
  • Windows Phone Emulator
  • Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone

 

The tools are free and can be downloaded from http://developer.windowsphone.com.

We’ve gone from eMbedded Visual Basic and eMbedded C++ to the .NET Compact Framework and now we’re making the jump to Silverlight which allows mobile developers to build the richest, most visually stunning apps ever seen on a phone.  Game developers get the same easy-to-use XNA tools that are used for Xbox, Windows and Zune HD.

Go to the site, download the tools, and start building apps and games for Windows Phone 7!

- Rob

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About Rob Tiffany

A bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction books, Rob Tiffany combines his military past with his high-tech present to take readers from the depths of the ocean to the world of mobile apps. Rob served with the Navy SEALs (SOCOM) on a special ops delivery vehicle and patrolled the seas on a Trident submarine. Beneath the waves is also where he taught himself to become a Software Developer with REXX on OS/2 and Visual Basic on Windows. After the Navy, Rob spent most of his career as a serial entreprenuer and an IT executive. A pioneer of the Smartphone revolution, he drove the development of the all-important mobile app ecosystem. As a Software Architect at the world’s largest software company, he’s in-demand as an advisor to executives and a speaker at conferences all over the world. Through books, articles and workshops, he helps to empower developers and IT professionals in areas of mobile, wireless, data replication, the cloud, and highly-scalable infrastructures. Rob lives in the Pacific Northwest and you can learn more about him by subscribing to his blog and following him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/robtiffany.