It’s Official, XNA & WP7 are set to get it on!!
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for.
Over the past few weeks I'm sure you've all heard about the "leak" of documentation that was supposedly showing the use of XNA and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.
Well now, it's official!!
Windows Phone 7 WILL support XNA and not only that it will also support the use of Silverlight for Apps & Games.
Our favourite Mr Klucher posts his snippet http://klucher.com/blog/gaming-development-for-the-go/
And the The Special One finally prevents himself from imploding by spilling some beans here http://twitter.com/shawnhargreaves/status/10014398597
There's still very little details on what exactly will be available to us.
Will we have avatars? will he even have 3D or will it be the same mediocre support that we have for the Zune HD. Will it even matter? Will there be a marketplace for you to develop for ? All that should be revealed at MIX and beyond but for now, get writing some Windows Phone 7 games. You can bet a $ anything that works on Zune HD will require very little changes to work on WP7.
Silverlight is also very interesting, knocking up high quality applications will be a breeze.
Stay tuned for more details as they come in... Exciting times ahead.
[EDIT : Added link source] : http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/microsoft-talks-windows-phone-7-series-development-ahead-of-gdc/
