WP7 Connect - Follow us on Twitter WP7 Connect - Become a Fan on Facebook

Updated Windows Phone Training Kit

February 3, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has just released their newly updated Windows Phone training kit. It comes with a few new labs and a bug fix. The 2 new labs are ‘Accessing Windows Phone Devices’ and Multi-touch Game Development XNA Framework”.

Accessing Windows Phone 7 Devices is a lab that lets you work with the phone’s camera and location services. The Windows Phone 7 is equipped with a Camera and GPS (global positioning system). Developers can leverage these devices to build location-aware applications and take live photos. The lab walks you through the steps required to integrate your applications with the phone’s camera. The goal is to build an application that lets you capture pictures, give them a title, and save them to the application local store. The lab also gives you the option to “fake” locations and, when saving a picture to a local store, associate its latitude-longitude (lat-long) geo-coordinates, and create a view in which you can see the pictures on a map.

xna

Multi-touch Game Development with XNA Framework is part of the complete (and amazing) XNA tutorial on App Hub.

The lab introduces you to multi-touch enabled game development on Windows Phone 7 using XNA Game Studio, the Windows Phone Developer tools and Visual Studio 2010. During the lab, you will build a simple 2D game using XNA Game Studio. Playing the game requires the user to supply multi-touch input; this lab will show you how to support these inputs while making sure that the game reacts to them as the user would expect.

As we said, we also updated most of our labs. In particular we’ve update the Using Chooser and Launcher lab to work with the entire Chooser and Launchers family (except the marketplace):

They also updated a few other things like the Push Notification lab.

You can download the full kit, or just the Silverlight or XNA framework labs. The online training kit was also updated.

Source: Windows Team Blog

 

 

Tags: , , News

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Nokia Begins to Advertise the Lumia 710 – Welcome to the Amazing Everyday (video)

With the Lumia 800 being Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone at the moment, its no wonder that it has been getting...

Lenovo LePhone S2 Running Windows Phone Coming 2012

Lenovo announced yesterday its LePhone S2 running Android which seemed to kill any chance of them making a Windows...