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.

A small C# helperclass for boardgame-applications: allowable moves

Our students are creating classic boardgames using Silverlight. A problem that kept occurring was the following: “A player throws a certain number with the dice. How do I know, given his current location on the board, to which squares on the board the player is allowed to move to”.

I’ve written a small utility class that can be (re)used for simple applications where you have 2-dimensional map with certain squares on which the player can stand, and other not.
You can download the project here. Feel free to reuse/adapt. I’ve included to demo-usages.