Recently I've been working on a cross-group effort to create some content for getting folks started with Windows Phone 7 development. The team working on this project are myself and Karl, another writer for Silverlight, some test resources, part of a developer resource to act as a consultant, plus a program manager to run the whole thing. The team started this effort with a list of developer challenges that we gathered from various internal sources, and by developer challenges, I mean tasks that developers have struggled with when building their apps and getting them certified. The team then decided on an application that requires Karl and I to complete these same tasks with plans that we would document our experience; what decisions we made, why we made them, etc, and ultimately how we implemented our application and addressed these challenges. The goal is to link to relevant content on MSDN, but also to connect the dots from feature content to building an application in this mater ...
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