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Windows Phone 7 Series development tools available now for free

Microsoft just made available for free the development tools necessary to start working on Windows Phone 7 series applications & games: Visual Studio 2010…

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Microsoft just made available for free the development tools necessary to start working on Windows Phone 7 series applications & games:

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP

Windows Phone Emulator CTP

Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP

XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP

You can download everything right now from here and found all the documentation here

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