Silverlight support on windows phone 7

Windows Phone 7The new Windows Phone 7 is coming! Windows Phone 7 supports Silverlight and XNA.
Silverlight for Windows Phone supports core Silverlight capabilities in managed .NET code along with XAML including:
  • Hight quality video rendering
  • Deep Zoom for enhanced reading and photo browsing experiences
  • Vector and Bitmap Graphics and animation
Silverlight can also access the unique capabilities of the phone including:
  • Hardware acceleration for video and graphics
  • Accelerometer for motion sensing
  • Multi-touch
  • Camera and microphone
  • Location awareness
  • Push notifications
  • Native phone functionality
http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/devices/windows-phone/


Tools to create Silverlight applications on Windows Phone 7:
  • Visual Studio 2010
  • Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone
Also contains Windows Phone Emulator to test Silverlight application. For Academic purpose you can download Windows Phone Developer tools Beta to create and test Windows Phone 7 silverlight applications. It includes
  • Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta
  • Windows Phone Emulator Beta
  • Silverlight for Windows Phone Beta
  • Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone Beta
  • XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta
article source:http://www.dot4pro.com/windows-phone/silverlight-support-on-windows-phone-7.html