Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools released by Microsoft

Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools which is available for download through their MSDN download center at developer.windowsphone.com. Windows Phone Developer Tools feature;
1. Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
2. Windows Phone Emulator.
3. XNA Game Studio 4.0

Microsoft announced that not only is the Windows Phone Developer Tools Preview available for free, they will make the final version free as well. If you already have another version of Visual Studio 2010 RC installed this will act as an add-on to that.

Developers will be able to use these tools to start building rich Windows Phone 7 Series applications. Obviously developers don’t have real devices yet, but the new Windows Phone Emulator that’s included uses x86 virtualization and 3D GPU acceleration to provide great performance. If your developer workstation supports Windows 7 multi-touch you will be able to interact with the emulator using touch!