14 DAY TRIAL // On Tuesday, leading provider of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices Resco announced that it planned on offering support for Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system. According to the company, it has already started the work on a new suite of components for the development of software solutions for the mobile platform, and it aims at supporting Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 too.
“When Microsoft announced new Windows Phone 7 Series, our customers were curious whether Resco plans to support the new Phone with the favorite controls,” said Radomir Vozar, Resco Developer Tools & Enterprise Division director. “Windows Phone 7 Series is a big challenge for us and our plan is to provide developers with a complex set of components that will facilitate the development process for the new mobile platform.”
The new suite of components from the company will have at its base the Resco MobileForms Toolkit, which is one of the most complete set of controls for the development of apps for the Windows Mobile operating system. However, given the fact that the building of software solutions for Windows Phone 7 is possible only via the Silverlight technology, the company won't be able to simply port existing controls from Resco MobileForms Toolkit to the new technology.
Thus, the company took the decision of coming out with a new set of controls for Windows Phone 7, but plans on making the architecture of the new components compatible with the older solution as much as possible, from programming interface standpoint. “This conception ensures all developers using Resco MobileForms Toolkit a seamless transition to the Windows Phone 7 Series platform,” the company stated.
At the same time, the mobile solutions developer announced that the new Resco controls that would offer support for Windows Phone 7 were set to be integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and that they were expected to arrive on the market sometime in the fourth quarter of the ongoing year.