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Source: Chris Koenig's Blog

Yesterday at PDC10, Scott Guthrie demonstrated a Windows Phone 7 application that he was building using Silverlight. During this time, he mentioned that a new OData stack had been released for .NET which included an update to the library for Windows Phone 7. Now you might think that this was just a regular old upgrade – you know… bug fixes, optimizations, etc. It was, but it also signaled a rewrite of the existing CTP that had been available for Windows Phone 7.

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I have used Shawn Oster’s excellent InputScopes blog post and accompanying demo in the past when talking about Silverlight and the first revisions of the Windows Phone 7 dev tools, but noticed today when I was prepping for a talk that it no longer seems to work right with the Beta bits.

After a little code spelunking, some dusting and even a little vacuuming, I seem to have arrived at a really nice V2 demo.

Out of the box, the Windows Phone 7 tools give you a pretty good starting place for your application. The List template is based on the MVVM pattern, includes some sample code to help you better visualize your solution, and two pages to get you started: main page (list of items) and details page (details for an item). In this post we’ll explore the page navigation options available to the WP7 developer, starting with the OOB experience.

For my first WP7 app, I have chosen to build a NerdDinner mobile client – NerdDinner ToGo. The application will allow us to find events that we’re interested in attending, and submit an RSVP for those we want to attend. We’ll also look into adding some social networking integration, perhaps with Twitter, or FourSquare, or similar. Eventually, the final application will use almost, if not all of the most compelling WP7 features such as notification, accelerometer & location sensors as well as all the “normal” stuff you’d expect to find in an application like this.

I’m going to share with you my learning as I go through them, so that hopefully you can grow in experience along with me as you wait patiently for this Christmas when the WP7 devices will become available. My goal is to become an expert WP7 developer right in front of your very eyes!