14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that a new version of Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta is now available for download from Microsoft. Although there are no visible changes included into the equation, it seems that the new version of Microsoft's developer tools for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform put on download on the company's website about one week after the first Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta was released on July 12.
Only in beta at the moment, the Windows Phone Developer Tools are expected to hit final version in the near future. What this set of tools is all about includes the necessary resources to enable the building of applications for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. The first devices running under it should land on the market sometime in the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, though the company already started to deliver WP7 handsets to developers, in an attempt to ramp up the app building for the OS.
Just as the previous versions of the solution, the latest flavor of Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes the following: - Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta - Windows Phone Emulator Beta - Silverlight for Windows Phone Beta - Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone Beta - XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta
According to Microsoft, the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta would come as “the same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE),” while being aimed at enabling the design and testing of Windows Phone 7 handset applications. The solution is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010.
Developers interested in the building of software solutions for Microsoft's new OS can take advantage of other resources offered by the company too, including the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers, which also got updated last week. This solution offers a step-by-step explanation of the tools needed for the programming for Windows Phones. The two solutions can be used on PCs running under Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
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