Windows Phone Application Development: Communities

As was told in previous post. We will now speak about appliction developers communities where you can find "get started" information or get to know about windows phone features and issues.

All documentation for windows phone is availiable on msdn which also provide some basic project and code samples for windows phone and step-by-step instructions for configuring some controls (such as bing maps) and publishing your application in marketplace.

You have already heard about AppHub community

which is official microsoft community containing a lot of information about windows phone developent. It has training courses on developing applications and games.

Another big developers community with a nice series of blogs and articles is WindowsPhoneGeek. It consists of developers news post and tricks which are certainly really helpful.

A lot of developers run their own blogs in which they post about their own expirience of working with windows phone. Some kind of posts are made like huge reports. For example 31 days of windows phone 7
Of course there are others and so you can google a particular problem occured in your development to fast find some others expirience with the same issuses.

Also You can always ask questions on well-known programmers resources such as xda-developers or stackoverflow.

In our next post we will speak about control toolkits and other libraries for windows phone