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News6 on 8? Will VB6 be supported on Windows 8? Yep (mostly)! Pin
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NewsReading List on Big Data Pin
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NewsEnd of an era: NASA shuts down its last mainframe Pin
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NewsWhat's the big deal about Hadoop? Pin
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NewsThe Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model Pin
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NewsAnd the most in-demand tech skills of 2012... Pin
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News80% of Windows Phone Developers Not Using the Free Tools Pin
ActiveNick14-Feb-12 8:45
ActiveNick14-Feb-12 8:45 
Say what you will about Windows Phone vs iOS or Android, one thing most experts agree with is Microsoft knows how to make really good development tools. Windows Phone is no exception. The Windows Phone SDK, combined with Visual Studio 2010, provide us with amazing facilities to create Windows Phone applications and games with Silverlight and XNA. The best part is thanks to the Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition, you can get all the tools you need to get started from Microsoft for free.

It doesn’t stop there. The App Hub contains a ton of education resources, the MSDN documentation is vastly superior, the community is super active, and there are also a lot of free tools for Windows Phone mobile development, from Microsoft and the community alike...

Keep reading on my blog at: http://community.infragistics.com/blogs/nick-landry/archive/2012/02/14/80-of-windows-phone-developers-not-using-the-free-tools.aspx[^]
Nick Landry, MVP - Windows Phone Development
Senior Product Manager - Infragistics
NetAdvantage for Windows Phone
NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization
NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization
Twitter: @ActiveNick
Blog: www.ActiveNick.net

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NewsWhy I left Perl Pin
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NewsBack on Linux Pin
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News.NET: So long and thanks for all the fish Pin
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NewsBad Metaphors (for OOP) Pin
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NewsThe Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption Pin
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NewsSeven equations that rule your world Pin
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NewsDon't say you weren't warned Pin
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NewsCan Microsoft overcome the smartphone app gap? Pin
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NewsComing in 2012: Firefox for Windows 8's Metro Pin
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NewsThe Development Pendulum Pin
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