Free PDF Ebook on WP7 Dev by Charles Petzold
From the Microsoft Press Blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_pr...s-petzold.aspx
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Introduction
This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community, and I am proud to have been a part of it. Within the pages that follow, I show you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks.
Yes, Programming Windows Phone 7 is truly a free download, but for those readers who still love paper�as I certainly do�this book will also be available (for sale) divided into two fully-indexed print editions: Microsoft Silverlight Programming for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft XNA Framework Programming for Windows Phone 7. [Note from Devon: we should have these ready for order in December 2010.]
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Being familiar with Charles Petzold's work and reputation, I was pretty excited to see this book. I downloaded it yesterday along with the sample code. I think about the only criticism I could level at this is the code listings in the book aren't complete, so it can be a little difficult to "follow along" with Visual Studio, but he does an excellent job of explaining the salient points of the code and how things work. I'm looking forward to reading more this weekend. 
Flynn
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