7 WP7 dev tools you might not know but will want to have

There’s an incredible amount of guides, tools and utilities to be found on the Internet (or should I say ‘tha cloud’?) for Windows Phone 7 developers. Compiled in this article are some of the tools I’ve come across on my searches which I now use frequently but didn’t know the existence of beforehand. Read on to change you WP7 development life.

Learning to cook with WP 7.5 data (a book review)

Recently I received a review copy of the “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” by Ramesh Thalli from Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-84969-122-2). This book, divided in 8 chapters, shows how simple it is to write data-driven programs WP7 applications.

What follows is an extensive review of this book.

New WP 7.5 ebook review copy arrived

I just received a review copy of a soon to be published book, titled “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” by Ramesh Thalli from Packt Publishers. I will put up a review of it soon. However, I can already hint, after quickly flicking through the pages, that many who liked its unofficial predecessor “Silverlight 4 Data Services Cookbook” by Gill Cleeren and Kevi Dockx will also like this one a lot. If you can’t wait for my review, check out a sample chapter (chapter 2 on using Isolated Storage for data storage) here.