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The patterns and practices team has published a new Windows Phone 7-related guide .
You can check the official Windows Phone 7 Patterns & Practices Guide at – http://wp7guide.codeplex.com/

This guide will help the developers to design Windows Phone 7 Applications.

If you want to know more , then check out the following sections

Project overview
High-level architecture
UI mockups.

Joel Varty , in his blog highlights fix for the users of Visual Studio 2010 who have problems with the IDE that hangs when debugging ASP.NET 3.5 applications.

The Bug information can be found in the Microsoft’s Connect site .

A video by pocketpc from youtube that is embedded in the blog post with a Windows Phone 7 prototype Device ( LG ) compares the boot up time of different devices like Windows Phone 7 prototype ( LG Panther ), Android , Nexus One and iPhone 4 and HTC HD2. Watch on YouTube/* Good news [...]

Just found this nice template that helps to start the Windows Phone 7 Development in F# in the Visual Studio Gallery

The template was created by Daniel Mohl

To Install and use the template , follow the steps as described below

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I was recently caught up with this Error “Operation illegal on linked parameter” when working with the Crystal Reports and solution seems to be pretty simple too . When you run a Crystal Report which inturn contains the SubReports , the Crystal Report issues the following error: Operation illegal on linked parameter The Error Message [...]

John Kaster, EDN Program Manager at Embarcadero Technologies will be in India for RAD technical sessions. In the Sessions, you will get to know more about Cloud Computing development with RAD Studio Developing Social Network and Web 2.0 applications Secure Multi-Tier development with DataSnap The latest in agile software development using RAD Studio Meet with [...]

Embarcedero has started a new marketing site (http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/) that features David I.

There is a paper based games that you can download as pdf from http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/fun/index.html

The other games includes the trivia and a underwater game that you can play and save David from fishes and sharks .The game was written using Adobe Flash…

Microsoft has published the new training content led by the MVPs like Rob Miles , Andy Wigley that focusses on getting developers trained up on building great application for Windows Phone 7 .
Below are the sessions and the corresponding links for the material .
This includes 12 sessions with each session rannging about 50 minutes in length
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 1 of 12): Introduction
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 2 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 3 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 4 of 12): Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform
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Does your Visual Studio 2010 run slow ???

Here’s David Berg , in his Developer Division Performance Engineering blog explains how to make your VisualStudio 2010 run faster on Windows XP machine by installing the new version of the Windows Automation API.