Hot on the heels of the release of the development toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft have just released a downloadable training kit to jumpstart you Windows Phone 7 series development
See Here for details:
Windows Phone 7 series training kit download
Hot of the press after MIX2010 the CTP for Windows Phone 7 Development tools is now available for download, the installer includes VS2010 Express for Windows Phone 7 CTP, the Windows Phone 7 Emulator CTP, Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 CTP and XNA 4.0 Game Studio. It took about 4 minutes to install and you need about 4 GB space available (note: if you already have any flavour of VS2010 RC installed then this installer just adds the relevant tools to your installation and will not install VS2010 Express for Windows Phone):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2338b5d1-79d8-46af-b828-380b0f854203&displaylang=en
After that it's as simple as creating a new Windows 7 Phone Project and building:
For more details, tutorials, code examples etc. see the Windows Phone 7 Series development portal here:
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