The Windows Phone 7 platform contains great out of the box integration with SharePoint under the Office Hub. Microsoft has developed an exhaustive training course to help you create your own custom applications on the phone that leverage SharePoint 2010 data and services.

Charles Petzold, the veteran Windows programming author authored Programming Windows Phone 7, a free 24-chapter ebook, last year. The Microsoft Press book has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

Microsoft announced certification exam 70-599 – Designing and Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications few months back. The exam will be published on July 14, 2011.

Mango, codename for the next version of Windows Phone shipping later this year, offers a lot of new capabilities for developers to create even better, more immersive user experiences on Windows Phone. This training course by Microsoft will give you hands-on experience with important developer features in Mango.

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.

Microsoft Learning has announced a certification exam for Windows Phone 7 platform. This exam is designed to test the candidate’s knowledge and skills on designing and developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform.