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Common

• Windows Phone
• Windows Phone Marketplace (or Microsoft Marketplace)

Tips

• 72 Windows Phone 7 tips and tricks

The iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool helps developers find their way around when they discover the Windows Phone platform.

If you have been developing iPhone applications and are interested in building your applications for Windows Phone 7, this guide is for you.

The guide will cover what you need to know to add Windows Phone 7 development to your skill set, while leveraging what you have already learned building iPhone applications.

1. Microsoft’s All-In-One Code Framework Coding Guideline
2. MSDN: Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries – New one for .NET Framework 4
3. Coding Guidelines for CSharp 3.0 and 4.0 by aviva Solutions – The downloads here includes the coding guidelines , Visual Studio 2010 rule sets and ReSharper 5 Code Style
4. Philips Healthcare – C# Coding Standard (pdf)
5. Encodo C# Handbook – Covers many aspects of programming with C#, from naming, structural and formatting conventions to best practices for using existing and developing new code. (English / October 2009)
6. .NET/SQL/TFS Code & Application Design by SSW – This includes not just for C# but also for SQL Server , Project Management etc .
7. SharpDevelop C# Coding Style Guide 0.3 by Mike Kruegar
8. C# Coding Guidelines by Validio Software (pdf)
9. The IDesign C# Coding Standard, for development guidelines and best practices
10. C# Coding Guidelines by agamura
11. C# Coding Standards and Best Programming Practices by DotnetSpider
12. Book : Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (See all Microsoft .NET Books)

Summary

Jason Fried talks about momentum, why roadmaps, specifications and projections are evil, and many other topics.

Bio

Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a company that builds web-base apps that make it easier for small groups to collaborate. Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics. Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.