I previously blogged a nice step-by-step tutorial that covers how to
build a Twitter search application using Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows
Phone. It provides a nice introduction on how you can easily use
Silverlight and the Visual Studio Tools for Windows Phone to quickly build
applications. You can read and follow the tutorial here.
Read today’s blog post from the Windows Phone 7 team which
provides more details on today’s release. It also mentions two new Silverlight
controls – a Panorama and Pivot control - which will enable you to easily
implement the new Windows Phone 7 navigation style. These controls are
not implemented in today’s beta, but will be released as an update in a few
weeks.
If you have used the previous Windows Phone 7 CTPs, also
make sure to read Jaime’s Migrating Applications from the Windows Phone April CTP Refresh
to the Beta blog post. It provides a wealth of details on how to
update code that you’ve already written.