If Microsoft and its phone partners truly do end up delivering the first Windows Telephone seven devices in October in Europe and November inside the U.S., Microsoft is positive cutting it close in getting the ultimate edition of the development instruments for those devices inside the fingers of coders.Developers were able to obtain their hands around the final develop with the Windows Telephone equipment right now, September sixteen, as Microsoft execs promised a number of weeks ago.As the Softies mentioned in a new blog publish right now, the last Windows Telephone seven resources release is required for devs who hope to get their apps within the Windows Telephone Market, which opens for enterprise in “early October.”“For developers to put their apps into the marketplace, opening in early October, you will need to download this edition with the tools. Any application built with a previous version of the instruments will fail application certification within the Market,” blogged Brandon Watson, a Director in Microsoft;s Mobile Communications Company unit.The lack with the ultimate edition with the tools seemingly hasn;t hampered some of Microsoft;s Windows Phone seven development app-development partners. Twitter, Netflix,
Office Pro Plus, OpenTable,
Office Professional Plus 2010, Flixster and Travelocity showed off on September 15 versions of their respective apps that worked from inside the Windows Phone seven;s browser. Windows Phone seven apps. As TechFlash reported, YouTube also showed off the ability to view content on WP7 units from inside the WP7 browser.
The Windows Phone seven tool suite includes Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Telephone, the Windows Phone 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 seven tool) installer is smart enough to download only what you need, and the instruments 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,
Office Professional 2010, drag, etc. Others include date picker and time pickerThe Microsoft Advertising team also announced its own SDK for Windows Phone seven on September sixteen: The Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone seven, as well as the Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile. The Exchange is “the industry’s initial real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile,
Windows 7 Activation,” Microsoft officials claimed, and is designed to provide display-ad serving,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, enabling developers to develop ad-supported apps.Microsoft is expected to “soft-launch” Windows Phone 7 on October 11.A couple of 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 handful of who;ve gotten one of these early loaners to test drive. I never bought a Windows Mobile telephone, as I (and my varied carriers) felt they weren;t the best smartphones for the money. I;m reserving judgment on Windows Phone 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.