Windows Phone 7 Petzold book in PDF

The Petzold book is now available as a PDF, and the code is available as a ZIP:

http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html

Note: I downloaded the PDF and the source code, then discovered there are file names in the Chapter 5 example that are too long for Windows 7. I had to download the ZIP to my MBP, copy them to a USB drive, then rename them to copy to my Win 7 directory... Win 7 didn't throw any exceptions when they were in long name format on the USB drive, though.

Windows Phone 7 Petzold book

I had a look at the upcoming Charles Petzold book on WP7. I have always liked his approach to programming books, as he fills them with useful examples. Here's a link to an excerpted version of the new book:

http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html

One thing that becomes obvious very quickly: Microsoft designed the WP7 platform to be a gaming device as well as a phone. It appears that the topics covered are 50/50 Silverlight/XNA. I almost wonder why Microsoft didn't call their new phone software "xPhone".