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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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Jaime Rodriguez , WPF Technical Evangelist at Microsoft has posted some videos from the recent Windows Phone Design Day in the MSDN Channel 9 . If you are currently developing Windows Phone 7 Applications or planning to do it any time soon, then its a much watchable videos as it provides a lot of information [...]

Microsoft Virtual Techdays is back . It is one of the India’s premier online technical event and this time its the 9th Edition and will be held from August 18-20 , 2010 . The Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays is an Online event and will have about 30 sessions everyday and is completely FREE. The tracks are categorized [...]

Recently , i was in discussion with My manager as well the client in moving an application from Delphi to .NET ( Visual Studio 2010 ) and thought myself Which one is Better?? and was struck up with no clear answer.

Here’s i compare two technologies ( Not Technically but just about what i feel ) and this is just my opinion and others might well disagree with me too . Here we go .

Anders Hejlsberg was involved in C# and for Delphi too and this puts me in a quetion on there might be similarities too …

C# / .NET

C# is a simple and very well defined language .
Its from Microsoft and .NET is the future for Development on the Microsoft Platform.
Visual Studio’s Code Editor and the Options of the Extensions / Addons to the IDE brings me more functions to be brought together in single IDE / Place especially Code Compare too and Data Compare tool etc
Excellent Community Support for .NET . Check the following sites

Charles Petzold ‘s Programming Windows Phone 7 Special Draft Preview – 2 is now Available!

The first preview was released couple of months back and this is one of the first books that is available for Windows Phone 7 as far as my knowledge is concerned .

Found this nice SDK for the Windows Mobile that can be used with the PC to act as the SMS Server . The Project is from the MSRIndia and allows the developers to write the SMS Applications using their Windows Mobile and the PC . The Project also includes a collection of samples that allows [...]

I was reading through a Blog article written by Glyn Moody .

This talks about the interview with Richard Stallman and talks about the Microsoft’s patents , Open Source Implementations ( Mono , DotGNU’s-Portable.NET) .

Kick start your Windows Phone 7 Development with the Windows Phone 7 Jumstart Sessions from Microsoft .

With the Recent release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta released last week , these sessions provide the developers to start developing the Windows Phone 7 applications .

It is a free Online Virtual Class training / Office Live Meeting broadcast and includes 4 instructor led 3 hour sessions presented by forthcoming MS Press authors and MVP’s Andy Wigley and Rob Miles.

Here are the Session Details :

The Microsoft’s ADO.NET team has released the latest Entity Framework Feature CTP,which is now available for Download from the Microsoft’s Download center . Remember that Entity Framework 4 was released together with Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010

The new CTP is called as Entity Framework Feature CTP 4 that includes the early preview of the Code First features.