When you go to create a New Project in VS 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta, you have the following options:

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The first option is to create a Silverlight for Windows Phone application.  You have three different project templates:

  • Windows Phone Application – A project for creating a Windows Phone application.
  • Windows Phone List Application  – A project for creating Windows Phone applications using List and Navigation controls.
  • Windows Phone Class Library – A Windows Phone Class Library project.

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The second option is to create an XNA Game Studio 4.0 project.  You have eight different project templates:

  • Windows Phone Game (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Windows Phone game.
  • Windows Phone Game Library (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Windows Phone game library.
  • Windows Game (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Windows game.
  • Windows Game Library (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Windows game library.
  • XBox 360 Game (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Xbox 360 game.
  • XBox 360 Game Library (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Xbox game library.
  • Content Pipeline Extension Library (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 Content Pipeline extension library.
  • Empty Content Project (4.0) – A project for creating an XNA Framework 4.0 content project.

Just so you know, the tools only install on Windows 7 or Windows Vista, so if you are using Windows Server 2008 R2 (like I do) as a workstation, you’ll have to spin up a VM to install them.  I created a Windows 7 VM, attached it to my wireless card in my laptop to provide Internet access (because the install downloads what it needs), then ran vm_web.exe to start the install.

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I clicked the Customize button to see what my options were.

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The only customization option is to set where everything gets installed.  I kept the default and clicked Install.

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So, don’t just walk away from the install, which is what I did.  Because apparently after installing .NET 4.0 it requires a reboot, and the install pauses until you do that.  I set the install to run while I was sleeping, so I woke up this morning to see that I still had a ways to go. 

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I restarted my computer and the install continued.  Once it was finished, you get the window above.  The checkbox is permanently checked, which means you will be sending anonymous information back about product quality, which is fine since this is a beta. To make sure everything installed correctly, I clicked the Click Run The Product Now button.

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And here I am in VS2010 Express for Windows Phone.   WooT!

I also decided to install the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit Beta.

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It looks to have some nice tutorials and such on how to get started.  I’ll be blogging more on those soon.  One thing I’ll be interested to see is if I can get VS2010 for Windows Mobile to connect up to my TFS 2010 instance, so I can version control and track the work on my Windows Phone 7 projects.

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