Microsoft Delivers Visual Basic For Phone 7


Microsoft has delivered the capability for Visual Basic developers to create Windows Phone 7 applications with the release of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools.

This CTP works with the final version of Windows Phone Developer Tools to deliver apps that will be accepted for validation by the Windows Phone app store.

Apps Milestone

In a blog post, S “Soma” Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, said, “Starting today, you can download Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This is a great milestone as it enables our Visual Basic developers to be able to build applications for Windows Phone.”

Somasegar said applications built using the CTP run on both the emulator and the phone. “To try the CTP, you’ll need the final version of Windows Phone Developer Tools and Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher. If you don’t have Visual Studio 2010 Professional, you can install the free trial of Visual Studio Professional,” Somasegar said.

The CTP includes Visual Studio 2010 project templates, item templates. It also provides designer support, emulator support, debugging and IntelliSense for Visual Basic. After installing the CTP, Visual Studio 2010 Professional and higher users will find Windows Phone project types for Visual Basic in the New Project Dialog.


Darryl K. Taft

Darryl K. Taft covers IBM, big data and a number of other topics for TechWeekEurope and eWeek

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