It’s a well known story: Friday afternoon, I’m trying to catch a deadline and my VS 2010 starts to mishbehave. So I started wondering if things will work better in Visual Studio 2012. Let’s take a look at the problems we had and how VS 2012 addresses them.

Windows Phone 7 is a successor of Microsoft’s old mobile OS called Windows Mobile. It features a new user interface based on Microsoft's Windows Phone design system Metro. There's no better way to start exploring this new platform than good old "HelloWorld" tutorial...