The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 phones have launched and Nokia is working on an unprecedented retail support and an aggressive consumer marketing campaign along with the rollout. Apart from the consumer engagement, Nokia is also focusing on the developer engagement.

This icon pack from Templarian would easily take care of all your icon needs for Windows Phone development and elsewhere! The pack contains 48×48 icons and the source files so with Expression Design they can be resized and exported for other uses.

Microsoft Academic Search is a project of Microsoft Research that allows you to explore over 27 million publications on multiple academic domains, authors, and more. The team has now brought this very useful service to Windows Phone as well.

Dennis Delimarsky has authored a series of 17 articles on DZone that cover different aspects of the Flickr API structure. It covers the core parts of it that you most likely will want to integrate in your applications if you decide to use this web service.

App Look is nifty utility to reverse lookup a Windows Phone application from a known GUID or the actual application URI.

MSDev has released an updated How Do I video series for Mango. These short 15-minute videos cover several aspects of Windows Phone development.

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.

Quick Charts is a fast set of charting controls for WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7. Quick Charts for Windows Phone is an easy to use and free and open source product. The source code is released under very permissive Ms-PL license.

The HealthVault team has made available Windows Phone 7 library that would enable developers to write Windows Phone 7 applications that connect directly to the HealthVault service allowing interaction with a user’s personally controlled health record.