Windows Phone 7 Application Development Support by Chris Ismael

6 Apr 2011

Hi there. A lot of developers are asking me what support they can get from Microsoft when developing their applications for Windows Phone 7 (There are now close to 200 apps/games developed from Singapore). I hope the following table helps!

You Are A…	Support	Contact/Link
Student	Free AppHub ($99US) registration through DreamSpark	http://bit.ly/fSGL4i
Startup	Free AppHub ($99US) registration through BizSpark	http://bit.ly/dHFOfI
Startup/Company looking for funding to hire a WP7 developer	Manpower Funding Scheme through AMPlify from IDA (Singapore)	Mun Yew Loh (loh_mun_yew@ida.gov.sg)
Startup/Company looking for funding to port iPhone/Android apps to WP7	People Sector Infocomm Partnership Scheme from IDA (Singapore)	Alvin Tan (alvin_tan@ida.gov.sg)
Owner/member of User Group registered through INETA	$100US donated to UG for each app submitted to Marketplace	http://bit.ly/hXnmca
Developer creating a WP7 app in the next 3 months	Waived training fee for WP7 trainings run by Certified Partners (CPLS)	Chris (chism@microsoft.com)
Developer with a WP7 app ready to be submitted NOW	Tokens to bypass AppHub registration payment (Singapore)	Chris (chism@microsoft.com)
Developer/influencer with an inquiry on WP7 Apps Development	Reply from a Microsoft rep (Singapore)	Chris (chism@microsoft.com)
Company looking to get their app featured in Marketplace	“Spring Cleaning” project!	http://bit.ly/fb5spz

And here’s a video of me singing Korean for your entertainment . (Had to pull down the Dilbert strip due to copyright issues). And yes I have rights to this video Smile

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBFoBkz1H8[/youtube]