Windows Phone 7 Release Day

Today, September 16, as expected , the final versions of development tools have been released for the Windows Phone 7 platform.



So about everything in order:

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1. here is the news about the release of the Advertising Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and the Ad Exchange platform mentioned in it;
2. Information on the controls for Windows Phone 7 has been published on the MSDN website, among them: the long-awaited Pivot and Panorama elements , Tilt Effect (!), Bing Maps Silverlight, Web Browser ;
3. A new set of tools for Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit has been released , which includes new GestureService / GestureListener controls, ContextMenu, DatePicker, TimePicker, ToggleSwitch, WrapPanel . All items are released open source under the MS-PL license. In addition, several demo applications are included with the toolkit;
4. the official Silverlight website has published a video for iPhone developers who want to start developing software for WP7;
5. and finally, the final tools of the Windows Phone 7 SDK (direct link) have been released, the details of this can be found in this announcement .

UPD: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers - RTM Refresh is available .