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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Today we pushed a maintenance release for Axiom v0.8 ( crickhollow ). While there are not a lot of tickets closed for this release, a lot of work when into the build system to automate the release process. It now takes 45 minutes to pull a clean working copy from the subversion repository, build all the assemblies and documentation, create the zip distribution packages and the Nuget Packages, build the Project Templates ( new feature! ), and finally upload the files to CodePlex, ......

Now that the Windows Phone 7 development tools have been out for a while, let’s talk about how you can use them. Windows Phone 7 ( WP7 ) has two application types that you can create, either Silverlight or XNA, and you can’t really mix the two together. The development environment for WP7 is a special edition of Visual Studio 2010 called Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. This edition will be installed with the WP7 tools, even if you have a full edition of VS2010 already installed. While ......