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Mike Ormond threw together a very quick test of Nick Randolph's Social Viewer app template for VS using a few of the RSS feeds from the blogs of people on his team.

Source: Mike's Blog

If you’ve been thinking about building a Windows Phone app but weren’t sure where to start, how about this for an idea? Nick Randolph of Built to Roam has created a customizable Social Viewer app template for Visual Studio. The template is the core of an application that allows you to aggregate multiple feed such as RSS, Atom, Twitter and Facebook. It also supports Bit.ly for sharing links, caching for offline reading, trials and even advertising.

Nick Randolph has published five more parts of his series discussing some of the pain/success/difficulties experienced in building the same application across three platforms:

• Mono III: Shared Libraries
• Mono IV: Webservices
• Mono V: Content and Resource Files
• Mono VI: File Access
• Mono VII: Database

Over the past couple of months I’ve been thinking more about how to share resources between applications written for WP7, Android and iOS. Increasingly companies that I consult with are asking how they can build an application once and have it run across multiple platforms. My belief is that this isn’t easily achievable and even if it is would lead to a poor user experience on one or more platforms.

In his first WP7 article for VS Magazine, Nick Randolph demonstrates how to build a YouTube search app using Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend.

Source: Visual Studio Magazine

Welcome to a brand-new column dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development. In the coming months we'll step through the major features of the latest mobile platform from Microsoft. You'll learn how to work with both Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 to develop and design applications for Windows Phone 7.

Nick Randolph has published the first two parts of a series in which he is going to share some of the pain/success/difficulties  experienced in building the same application across three platforms:

• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started
• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono II: Basic Navigation

Over the past couple of months I’ve been thinking more about how to share resources between applications written for WP7, Android and iOS. Increasingly companies that I consult with are asking how they can build an application once and have it run across multiple platforms. My belief is that this isn’t easily achievable and even if it is would lead to a poor user experience on one or more platforms.

While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void and shares the specifics of building phone applications and games. You’ll learn how to get started with designing, building, testing, and deploying mobile applications for Windows Phone 7. Working examples used throughout the book cover how to design and layout a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

• Fills the void in the market for an instructional book on developing applications for Windows Phone 7
• Offers an overview of Windows Phone and discusses the necessary tools
• Explains how to work with multiview applications
• Addresses tool bars, pickers, table views, navigation controllers, application setting, and user defaults
• Reviews drawing with XNA, using the camera, and understanding basic data persistence

Explore the exciting possibilties of Windows Phone 7 development with this invaluable reference.

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