Developing Application for Windows Phone 7

The new windows phone 7 was shown to MCTs in the MCT Summit 2010. If you want to develop applicatons for it, then you have come to the right place.

WP7 uses a silverlight-based operating system so we can develop applications using silverlight. We will need Windows Phone 7 developer tools, Silverlight for windows phone 7 toolkit and of course Visual studio 2010. To get started to develop apps for WP7 follow the steps below:

1. Download the zip file from the following link : http://www.multiupload.com/BUJ55LVL0C
2. Extract all the contents of the zip file to a folder on your computer
3. Run WP7 Developer tools.exe and install the developer tools
4. Run the installer named Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit.msi

Now you have all the tools to get started. To unlock the emulator follow the steps below:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Emulation\Images
2. Rename WM70C1.en-US.bin in that folder to WM70C1.en-US_old.bin
3. now copy WM70C1.en-US.bin from the folder we downloaded to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.0\Emulation\Images
4. Enjoy the unlocked emulator