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VB for Windows Phone Dev Tools Released
Submitted
11/29/2010
Today, Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools – RTW is available on the Microsoft Download Center.
Included Resources
This Release to the Web (RTW) update to the Windows Phone Developer Tools provides the following resources as part of the install:
- Project templates, designer support, and IntelliSense support to build Windows Phone 7 applications by using Silverlight and Visual Basic (VB)
- A “Go Live” license that enables you to publish VB apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace
- VB support for all languages currently supported by the Windows Phone Developer Tools: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Visual Basic Code Samples
The VB team has been working with the Window Phone documentation team to create VB code samples, which can be found on the Windows Phone code samples page.
Installation Prerequisites
To use the RTW release, you must have already installed Visual Studio 2010 (Professional or higher) and the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTM. This release doesn't provide support for XNA Game Studio 4.0 or Visual Studio 2010 Express.
