Silverlight/XNA confirmed as developer frameworks for Windows Phone 7

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Documents leaked to the XDA-Developers forum reveal that Windows Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend are the primary tools for developing applications for Windows Phones. Developer frameworks The documents show that there are two frameworks available for developers to create applications. The first is the Silverlight UI framework for ...

Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC released publicly

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

On Tuesday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC to MSDN subscribers. Today, the company has made these releases available to the public. Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers to create GUI applications along with Windows Forms applications, web ...

Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Microsoft announced today at PDC09 here in Los Angeles that they will be opening the .NET Micro Framework source code and also release the next version, 4.0. The release will be available under the Apache 2.0 license, something that is already being used inside the community. Developers will be able to ...