The developer contests don’t seem to end! Microsoft has now introduced a limited-time offer good only to U.S. residents, 18+, who are full-time or part-time students enrolled in a U.S. college or university at time of participation. All you have to do is build and publish Windows Phone 7 apps to win exciting prizes.

Finding all the information a Windows Phone developer needs to make great apps and games just got easier!  Development documentation and content are currently spread across multiple Microsoft web properties, and there was no single place for developers to turn for the entire picture – until now.

Jeff Wilcox, a developer on the Silverlight team at Microsoft spends a lot of his time (~80%) coding in C++. And that’s because Silverlight is a portable managed runtime and C++ (C with classes in this case) is what enables Silverlight portability. This hour-long video gives more insights.

Silverlight is not the only possibility to create software for Windows Phone 7 devices, there’s also XNA.  Peter Kuhn has authored a series of articles to give a comprehensive insight into XNA on the mobile platform for Silverlight developers who have not dealt with XNA in detail before.

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. This posts lists all the session on Windows Phone at the event..

Amidst the MIX11 buzz around Windows Phone, Microsoft released a refresh of Visual Studio Async CTP that is compatible with VS2010 SP1 and adds Windows Phone 7 support.

Get ready to jump into games! This series from Channel 9 provides videos for the game development tutorials on App Hub. These tutorials guide you through the creation of a two-dimensional action game – called Shooter – on Windows, Xbox 360, or Windows Phone 7.   XNA: Game Development Intro Designing the Game The Game [...]

TouchStudio is radically new software development environment on the Windows Phone from the Research in Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research, bringing the excitement of authoring and executing programs on mobile devices. Script your phone!

If you’re developing an app for Windows Phone 7, there couldn’t be a better time! Across the world, there are several competitions for app developers. See where your app fits into, and get into contention for some great prizes.

I had a good chance to meet Aaron Skonnard, Fritz Onion, and Matt Milner from Pluralsight at Microsoft TechEd India 2011. During some great conversations (and dinner), I convinced Matt to demo their upcoming Windows Phone 7 app.