Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.1 Beta SDK that was released a few days back has some good news for the Visual Basic developers .
Visual Basic is now fully integrated in Visual Studio for the WP7 Development with the new Windows Phone 7.1 Mango SDK .
The VBTeam states
The first thing to do is install the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta’ (Mango Toolset) onto a machine with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 installed. VS2010 SP1 is critical for this to work and also will change how Silverlight application developed using VB are now compiled. This will also install updated Windows Phone 7 templates.
Here are some resources to get started
1. Code Samples for Windows Phone
You might find that there are quite a lot of code samples on VB.NET for WP7 but looks like we have to wait for some more time for the samples on Windows Phone 7.1 .
2. Start coding for Windows Phone and XBox LIVE Indie Games – AppHub
Know more about the announcement from the Visual Basic Team
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