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It has been a while since the Windows Phone Training Kit has been last updated and the Windows Phone Developer Team are happy to announce that they release updates (bug fix) and few new labs.

Source: The Windows Phone Developer Blog

The updated training kit includes a refresh to almost all the labs. We cleaned up some bugs and updated the labs to make sure each lab works on real phone devices, and not just the emulator.

We also added two new labs, Accessing Windows Phone 7 Devices and Multi-touch Game Development XNA Framework.

In this post, Yochay Kiriaty discusses the GPS Emulator in Windows Phone 7.

Source: The Windows Phone Developer Blog

With the GPS Emulator, you can set a location anywhere on the globe by using the map display. Furthermore, you can plan routes with multiple intermediate waypoints, or use Bing services to calculate driving directions between locations. Once you’ve planned a route, you can simulate driving through the pre-defined waypoints along the path.

In this post, Morten Nielsen explains how to simulate GPS on WP7.

Source: SharpGIS

While building some of my latest WinPhone apps, I needed to be able to able test moving around on a map, while being able to debug. However I preferred doing this at the comfort of my desk. So I had to “fake” a GPS signal. Luckily the GeoCoordinateWatcher class that is used for this, implements the interface “IGeoPositionWatcher<GeoCoordinate>”. If I were to create my own class that implements this interface, I had an option for using a separate class for receiving data from the location service. I ended up needing two types of location simulators for my routing app: One that starts at a given location and direction, and randomizes speed and direction over time.