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Developers for Windows Phone 7 target either XNA for games (which in theory is why they are able to integrate with XBox Live) or Silverlight for everything else
by m0nastic 16y ago
Developers for Windows Phone 7 target either XNA for games (which in theory is why they are able to integrate with XBox Live) or Silverlight for everything else.
I assume that if Microsoft intends for Windows Phone 7 to be a long-term platform (which their statements at CES cast some doubt about) they may add in further parts of .NET into the SDK.
- contextfree 16y agoI think they've always planned for Windows Phone to be merged into mainline Windows eventually, once the hardware is ready (though expecting that to be the W8 timeframe is a bit optimistic on Intel's part). That's why they've been careful not to expose the underlying CE kernel to third-party native code (only through a .NET VM) - so they can change the kernel without breaking things. Not sure how that makes it "not a long-term platform", though - that's like saying consumer Windows in the 90s wasn't a long-term platform because they eventually swapped out the 9x kernel for NT. The switchover, when it eventually comes, should be mostly transparent to users and developers.