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31 Days of Windows Phone 7

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Welcome to the 31 Days of Windows Phone. This is a journey through a ton of different topics in development for the Windows Phone platform.

If you haven’t had a chance to read my previous series already, check out:

31 Days of Silverlight

28 Days of Did-You-Knows in Technology (aka Diduary 2010)

In the month of October 2010, I published an article every day on Windows Phone 7 development. Here’s the list of topics I covered, in order by the day they were released:

Day #1: Project Template
Day #2: Page Navigation
Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm
Day #4: Device Orientation
Day #5: System Theming
Day #6: Application Bar
Day #7: Launchers
Day #8: Choosers
Day #9: Debugger Tips
Day #10: Input Scope (on-screen Keyboard)

Day #11: Accelerometer
Day #12: Vibration Controller
Day #13: Location Services
Day #14: Tombstoning
Day #15: Isolated Storage
Day #16: Panorama Control
Day #17: Pivot Control
Day #18: WebBrowser Control
Day #19: Push Notification API
Day #20: Map Control

Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit
Day #22: Apps vs. Games
Day #23: Trial Versions of Your App
Day #24: Embedding Fonts
Day #25: Talking to Existing APIs (like Twitter)
Day #26: Sharing Your App With Other Developers
Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace
Day #28: Advertising SDK
Day #29: Animations
Day #30: Gestures
Day #31: Charting

Also, check out this interview I did with Jesse Liberty about the 31 Days of Windows Phone!

This series has also been translated to Russian by Sergey Pugachev, but he’s taken it a step further.
He’s adding additional content to my original posts, taking it to 45 Days of Windows Phone.

The 31 Days of Windows Phone has also becoming the “31 dias de Windows Phone,” thanks to David Mora.
His Spanish translation will be completed by the end of December 2010.

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