Silverlight at Windows Phone 7

Microsoft announced today, that new Windows Phone 7 Series will support Silverlight as one of 2 development frameworks. Second development framework will be XNA (will blog about it later).

So, what’s new for Silverlight developers there?

First, we have familiar tools: Windows Phone applications with Silverlight will be developed either with Visual Studio 2010, either with new “express” version called Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. This “express” version will enable development with both frameworks (Silverlight and XNA).

Full Visual Studio 2010 will also get new project types to develop with both frameworks.

Read more: DevCorner

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