Deploying Applications on Windows Phone 7

Question

It seems the only way to deploy applications on Windows Phone 7 is via the market place. You can register up to 3 phones for $99 to allow you to side load but that's no good to me. I develop commercial apps which I don't want to seel through the market place - I need to choose my clients and offer a full service including configuration, training etc. How does this work for people like me ? Thanks, Gary

Answer 1

At the moment, it doesn't. There are no alternatives at present - but I strongly suspect that Microsoft is working on it.

Unlike previous versions of Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 has been heavily targeted at consumers rather than business users. I'm sure in the future it will get more business-friendly options (e.g. an "internal" marketplace so that businesses can have their own internal apps available only to them) but it's not there yet. Don't forget it's effectively the v1 of the platform.