Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance Map v2.0

I saw this great posting on J.D. Meir Blog and wanted to point you to it as well. It’s a useful guide that helps consolidate some information and provides additional content and resources.

• Shows you Windows Phone content and where to look
• Provides an index of the main content collections (Code Samples, How Tos, Videos, and Training)

Download the Windows Phone Developer Guidance Map v2.0 here

I’ve also copied from JD’s blog a list of content for easy reference:

Articles

• 2D Asset Types - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/asset_types_2d
• 3D Asset Types - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/asset_types_3d
• Avatar Usage Guidelines - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/avatar_use
• Avoiding the Windows Phone Watchdog - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/watchdog
• Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 Games - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/best_practices_wp7_games
• Code Samples for Windows Phone - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/wp7_code_samples
• Data Structures - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/data_structures
• Dynamic Audio - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/dynamic_audio
• Educational Catalog Content Under Development - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/wp7_under_development
• Games for WP7 - Talks at PDC - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/pdc_games_wp7_talks
• Gestures - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/gestures
• Inside Windows Phone - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/inside_windows_phone
• Intro to C# from Objective-C and Java - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/intro_to_c_sharp
• Intro to Game Loop - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/intro_to_game_loop
• Performance Considerations for Windows Phone 7 Games - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/performance_wp7_games
• Recipe: Non-Linear Navigation Services for Windows Phone 7 - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/nln-serv-wp7
• Shader Series: coordinate Spaces - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/shader_coord
• Shader Series: Introduction - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/shader_primer
• Tombstoning for Windows Phone 7 Games - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/tombstoning_wp7_games
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/wp7_training_kit
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/wp7_jump_start
• Windows Phone Silverlight Application Life cycle for Application Launch, Activate, and Deactivate Events - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/silverlight_application_life_cycle
• Xbox 360 Performance Best Practices - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/xbox360_performance_best_practices
• XNA Game Studio or Silverlight: Which Product is Right for Me? - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/which_product_for_windows_phone

Code Samples

• 2D Graphics - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/graphics_2d
• 3D Audio - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/3d_audio
• 3D Graphics - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/graphics_3d
• Accelerometer - https://create.msdn.com/sample/accelerometer
• Aiming - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/aiming
• Avatar Animation Blending Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/avatar_animation_blending
• Avatar Multiple Animations Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/avatar_multiple_animations
• Avatar Shadows - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/avatar_shadows
• Billboards - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/billboard
• Bing Maps for Games - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/bing_maps
• Bitmap Font Maker - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/bitmap_font_maker
• Bloom Post process - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/bloom
• Bounce - https://create.msdn.com/sample/bounce
• Camera Shake - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/camera_shake
• Card Game Starter Kit: Blackjack - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/blackjack
• Catapult Wards Extension Kit - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/trainingkit/catapult_wars
• Chase and Evade - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/chase_evade
• Chase Camera - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/chasecamera
• Collision - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/collision
• Collision Series 4: Collision with a Heightmap - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/collision_3d_heightmap
• Collision Series 5: heightmap Collision with Normals - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/collision_3d_heightmap_normals
• Color Replacement - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/color_replacement
• Content Manifest Extensions - https://create.msdn.com/sample/contentmanifestextensions
• CPU Skinning - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/cpu_skinning
• Custom Model Class - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/custom_model_class
• Custom Model Importer - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/custom_model_importer
• Customer Avatar Animation Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/custom_avatar_animation
• Custom Indeterminate Progress Bar Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/custom_indeterminate_progress_bar
• Custom Model Effect - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/custom_model_effect
• Distortion - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/distortion
• Flocking - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/flocking
• Fuzzy Logic - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/fuzzy_logic
• Game State Management - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/game_state_management
• Generated Geometry - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/generated_geometry
• Geolocation - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/geolocation
• HTTP Multiplayer: Tic Tac Toe - https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/tic_tac_toe
• Input Sequence - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/input_sequence_sample
• Instanced Model - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/mesh_instancing
• Invites - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/invites
• Lens Flare - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/lens_flare
• Level Starter Kit - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/level_starter_kit
• Loading Time Reduction for Windows Phone 7 Games - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/loading_time_reduction_WP7
• Localization - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/localization
• Microphone Echo - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/microphone_echo
• Multi-Platform Game Training Kit - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/trainingkit/honeycomb_rush_tk
• Network Architecture: Client/Server - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/network_cs
• Network Architecture: Peer-to-Peer - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/network_p2p
• Network Game State Management - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/network_game_state_management
• Network Prediction - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/network_prediction
• Network Rumble (4.0 Coming Soon) - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/net_rumble
• Non-Realistic Rendering - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/nonrealistic_rendering
• Normal Mapping - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/normal_mapping
• Object Placement on Avatar Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/object_placement_on_avatar
• Orientation - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/orientation
• Particles - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/particle
• Particles 3D - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/particle_3d
• Particles Pipeline - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/particles_pipeline
• Path Drawing - https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/path_drawing
• Pathfinding - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/pathfinding
• Performance Measuring Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/performance_sample
• Picking - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/picking
• Picking with Triangle Accuracy - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/picking_triangle
• Platformer - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/platformer
• Primatives - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/primitives
• Primitives3D - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/primitives_3d
• Push Notification - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/push_notifications
• Reach Graphics Demo - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/reach_graphics_demo
• Rim Lighting - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/rim_lighting
• Role-Playing Game - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/roleplaying_game
• Safe Area - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/safe_area
• Saving Embedded Images - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/saving_embedded_images
• Shader Series 1: Vertex Lighting - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shader_series_1
• Shader Series 2: Textures and Colors - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shader_series_2
• Shader Series 3: Per-Pixel Lighting - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shader_series_3
• Shadow Mapping - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shadow_mapping_1
• Shape Rendering - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shape_rendering
• Shatter - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/shatter
• Silverlight Microsoft Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/silverlight_microphone
• Simple Animation - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/simple_animation
• Skinned Model - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/skinned_model
• Snow Shovel - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/snow_shovel
• Soccer Pitch - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/soccer_pitch
• Sound and Music - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/sound_and_music
• Spacewar (4.0 Coming Soon) - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/spacewar
• Split Screen - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/split_screen
• Sprite Effects - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/sprite_effects
• Sprite Sheet - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/sprite_sheet
• Stock Effects - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/stock_effects
• Tilt Perspective - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/tilt_perspective
• Tombstoning Sample - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/tombstoning
• Touch Gestures - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/gestures
• Touch Thumsticks - https://create.msdn.com/sample/touchthumbsticks
• Unit Converter Starter Kit - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/unit_converter
• User Interface Controls - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/ui_controls
• Waypoint Navigation - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/waypoints
• WinForms Series 1: Graphics Device - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_1
• WinForms Series 2: Content Loading - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_2

Tools

• Avatar Animation Pack - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/avatar_animation_pack
• Avatar Animation Rig - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/avatar_animation_rig
• Curve Editor - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/curve_editor
• Graphics Profile Checker - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/graphics_profile_checker
• Input Reporter - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/input_reporter
• Network Lobby and Chat Icons - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/lobby_chat_icons
• Performance Utility - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/performance_utility
• SoundLab - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/soundlab
• Xbox 360 Controller Button Images - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/controller_buttons
• Xbox 360 Controller Images - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/utility/controller_images

Tutorial

• Authoring Particle Systems Using XML and the Content Pipeline - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/tutorial/particle_xml
• Best Practices for Indie Games 3.1 - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/article/bestpractices_31
• Catapult Wars Lab - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/lab/catapult_wars
• Collision Series 1: 2D Rectangle Collision - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/tutorial/collision_2d_rectangle
• Collision Series 2: 2D Per-Pixel Collisions - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/tutorial/collision_2d_perpixel
• Collision Series 3: 2D Collision with Transformed Objects - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/tutorial/collision_2d_perpixel_transformed
• Honeycomb Rush Lab - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/lab/honeycomb_rush
• Marble Maze - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/lab/marble_maze
• Memory Madness Lab - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/lab/memory_madness
• Skinned Model Extensions Tutorial - https://create.msdn.com/education/catalog/tutorial/skinned_model_extensions