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You can download existing and new content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats. Reference, guide, and step-by-step information are all available. All the e-books are free

E-Books in English

ASP.NET	Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual Studio Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms (Beta) Intro to ASP.NET MVC 4 with Visual Studio (Beta)
Office	First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users
SharePoint	Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint 2010 Products Get started with SharePoint Server 2010 Deployment guide for SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 Profile synchronization guide for SharePoint Server 2010 Remote BLOB storage for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Governance guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Business continuity management for SharePoint Server 2010 Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
SQL Server	Books Online: Transact-SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) Reference Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Capacity Guidelines Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations Guide QuickStart: Learn DAX Basics in 30 Minutes SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Data Mining SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Multidimensional Modeling SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Tabular Modeling
Visual Studio	Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Windows	Deploying Windows 7: Essential Guidance Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (First Preview)
Windows Azure	Windows Azure Prescriptive Guidance Windows Azure Service Bus Reference
Windows Phone	Programming Windows Phone 7
Windows Server	Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Introducing Windows Server 2012 (Based on Beta) Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter, Second Edition
Career	Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft

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Windows Phone SDK 7.1

The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you with all of the tools that you need to develop applications and games for both Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 devices.

The Windows Phone SDK includes the following:-

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
• Windows Phone Emulator
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies
• Silverlight 4 SDK and DRT
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Extensions for XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone OS 7.1
• WCF Data Services Client for Window Phone
• Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone

System requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista
• Windows Vista (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition
• Installation requires 4 GB of free disk space on the system drive.
• 3 GB RAM
• Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 or above capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver

The Windows Phone SDK 7.1 is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

Instructions
If a pre-release version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Beta or RC) is installed on the machine, please uninstall it before installing this product.

download the vm_web2.exe file. This will start the installation of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and install necessary components on your computer.

Please refer to the Release Notes in the download section below for additional details before running setup.

DOWNLOAD

1. Release Notes - WP SDK 7.1.htm
2. vm_web2.exe

Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold - Free EBook

"Charles Petzold" released a book "Programming Windows Phone 7". This is free downloadable. it is more useful for Windows Phone 7 developers.

You can download a PDF here (12.5 MB).

You can download an XPS here (26.7 MB).

And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).