Porting to Windows Phone 7 from iPhone

Question

If you were going to attempt this, what would be the main factors to consider, easy/hard parts, pitfalls?

Answer 1

Jeff.

The issues you face include a shift in the underlying pattern from MVC to MVVM, but this is not as radical as it might seem. You will be working with a new language and with new language features, in a new development environment.

There are some traps along the way, especially the differing meanings of essential terms such as Interface, Delegate and so forth.

To address this, I've started a series of tutorials called "An iPhone Developer's Guide to Windows Phone 7 Programming" which you can find on my blog

The good news is that the developer tools are free and there is a lot of documentation, both official and from the community, with a lot more coming every day. The release version of the developer code comes out on September 16 (though you can start right now with the beta code). My first tutorial tells you all about how to get everything you need.

Best of luck and let me know if I can be of help.

-jesse

Thanks.