Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold

Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold

This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community.
The books shows you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks.

This book is divided into three parts:

The first part discusses basic concepts of Windows Phone 7 programming using example programs that target both Silverlight and the XNA framework.
The second part of this book focuses entirely on Silverlight, and the third part on XNA 2D.

For your convenience, the chapters in each part build upon previous knowledge in a progressive tutorial narrative, and hence are intended to be read sequentially.

Original Announcement:
Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold

• You can download a PDF here (12.5 MB).
• You can download an XPS here (26.7 MB).
• And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).

@My students: Yes, the WP7 platform 110% qualifies as a Rich Internet Application! ;-)