Walt Ritscher talks about the areas in which you can deploy your WP7 apps: Public Marketplace , Private Marketplace and Beta Marketplace.
Source: Wpf Wonderland
Corporations will not create internal Windows Phone 7 applications unless they have a way to restrict deployment of their apps to controlled list of registered phones. As it stands today, it is not possible to do private deployments. The next version of Windows Phone 7, known as Mango, aims to change that. Microsoft previewed the upcoming changes to the Marketplace at their web conference (Mix11).
In this podcast, Jesse Liberty has a nice chat with Walt Ritscher - MVP and author of the free Shazzam Shader Editor.
Source: Jesse's Blog
Walt is a .NET programmer and UX enthusiast. His current UI obsession includes Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com.
Walt Ritscher has a short blog post discussing leaking memory with images in Windows Phone 7.
Source: WPF Wonderland
Conserving memory is a huge issue in Windows Phone 7 programming. You must be diligent in checking your memory footprint during development for obvious reasons. For one, your application is destined to run on a limited resource device. For another, Microsoft will refuse to certify your app if you exceed the memory limits.
Walt Ritscher has a short explanation on previewing .xaml files in Windows Explorer.
There are times when I want to preview file content in Windows Explorer. The Preview pane in Explorer makes this a simple task.
Walt Ritscher Interview How does the WP7 device compare to other smart devices? It’s so, so. It has high and low points. There isn’t yet a twitter app for WP7??? Are there currently apps in the marketplace? There’s a couple, but it doesn’t look like “the switch” has been flipped yet. Is there a performance difference running apps in the emulator versus on the device? Yes.
Walt Ritscher Interview