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Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

nazar wrote: post #25

TomOfTTB wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Visual Studio Express is a free version Microsoft makes available so it isn't like you have to buy Visual Studio. Here's a good tutorial on writing a quick Windows Phone 7 app using VS Express: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a...

What is the difference between free and paid version of VS? My internet speed/prices doesnt allow me to watch videos online, or download such big software as VS, but I will soon go back to uni in Singapore, so I am starting to think what should I do there in order to earn some cash...

The free version doesn't allow add-ons to be installed in the IDE. I think that's about it. The free version does allow you to make commercial apps, contrary to some postings I've seen about it.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:14 PM UTC

Stronico wrote: post #2

I think referring to the technology as "Windows Phone 7" or "WP7" will probably generate better responses. And I have one in the works, yes.

Yeah, Microsoft is trying to distance itself from Windows Mobile, so I cringe when people refer to it as Windows Mobile 7. WP7 doesn't deserve that kind of reputation.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by danvideo » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

nazar wrote: post #10

What language/SDKs one has to use in order to write windows 7 apps? Is the overall experience different from iOS/Android app developing? How do one test the apps?

Has anyone heard more than rumors about whether Windows Mobile will support the Adobe AIR platform?

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by nailer » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

Waiting for WP8 - Windows 8 has WinJS, whereas WP7 is still Silverlight based. Hopefully they'll release something similar for Windows phone in future. If not, I won't bother.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by yannickt » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 10:19 PM UTC

nazar wrote: post #25

TomOfTTB wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Visual Studio Express is a free version Microsoft makes available so it isn't like you have to buy Visual Studio. Here's a good tutorial on writing a quick Windows Phone 7 app using VS Express: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a...

What is the difference between free and paid version of VS? My internet speed/prices doesnt allow me to watch videos online, or download such big software as VS, but I will soon go back to uni in Singapore, so I am starting to think what should I do there in order to earn some cash...

The Express versions are not designed for multilanguage projects. For example, in the paid versions of VS, you can add C# and C++ projects to the same solution. You cannot add a C++ project to a Visual C# Express solution.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by latch » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 12:02 AM UTC

I wrote mogade.com which is a free leaderboard/achievement system (much like scoreloop and all them) primarily focused on windows phone developers. At some point, someone at MS generated a list of the 50 most used 3rd party libraries in all WP-app submissions and mogade was somewhere in there (30s or 40s iirc).

For nothing more than a side project, I'd call it pretty successful...but the little insight it's given me into the WP world is that the platform really isn't doing well.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by runjake » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

nazar wrote: post #10

What language/SDKs one has to use in order to write windows 7 apps? Is the overall experience different from iOS/Android app developing? How do one test the apps?

I'm not sure if you mean WP7 or really Windows 7, but in the case of the former, C# and XAML, typically.

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by barranger » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 4:14 AM UTC

I've built quite a few WP7 apps now, some for clients, some for fun.

It's really a shame that the phone hasn't had even decent sales numbers as IMHO it has the best developer experience (yeah I know, end users don't care about the dev experience :))

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by Ergomane » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 10:04 AM UTC

farhadabas wrote: post #9

I have published several free games with ads for WP7. I am currently a student and making enough to cover my rent, and help me pay my tuition. My most popular game: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/24139b6e-e8a6-4c87-80...

Is it allowed to encourage your users to click on the ads?

Re: Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?

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Post by kpao » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

I am working on Infinite Flight. It's a civilian flight simulator much like FSX, Flight Unlimited and Pro Pilot. We're currently porting to iOS though, but using Mono Touch and MonoGame, so the code base is mostly the same.