USC: Links to sites with free stuff, money making and learning material
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Get your Dreamspark account attached to your LiveID (Free Stuff)
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Get your “free” AppHub account so that you can upload your games to make money ($$$$$$$)
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Tools (Direct download):
This download installs Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone, Expression Blend for Windows Phone and the necessary Windows Phone Tools to download your app to a developer unlocked telephone
Combining Silverlight and XNA:
General discussion with good links to simple tutorials
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202938(v=VS.92).aspx
Full up Alien Game showing XNA game to hybrid game with both Silverlight and XNA
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202938(v=VS.92).aspx
Pre-Mango, but good tutorials none the less:
BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic (WP7, not Mango, but works)
https://www.codeproject.com/KB/windows-phone-7/BounceBall.aspx#___DevelopGame
Platformer (scroll down to see the zip file for download)
https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/platformerCatapult
Honeycomb Rush Lab (lengthy, but good resource)
https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/lab/honeycomb_rush
Catapult Lab (lengthy, but good resource)
https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/lab/catapult_wars
Catapult Lab Extension
https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/trainingkit/catapult_wars
Lots of How-To videos for C#: