Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

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This is a community wiki list of Windows Phone 7 resources. Feel free to edit/add/etc.

General Information
App hub - central place for windows phone/xbox development tools/tutorials/info
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/default.mspx
http://developer.windowsphone.com/
http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/
Programming Guide
Class Library Reference

Blogs
Den by default: Windows Phone 7
.NET Zone: Windows Phone 7
Shawn Wildermuth: Windows Phone 7

Articles
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/windows/WindowsPhoneGame.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/Wp7ViewModel.aspx
Perst - a database for Windows Phone 7 Silverlight
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers...(part1) (part2) (part3)

Books
Programming Windows Phone 7
Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development
Pro Windows Phone 7 Development
Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development
Learning Windows Phone Programming
Windows Phone 7 Game Development
Windows Phone 7 Application Development

Podcasts
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=539
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=542
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=224
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=225

Videos
http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=172
http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions/Tags/WindowsPhone
http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WP7/

Developer Tools
Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW
EQATEC Profiler for Windows Phone 7

Frameworks
OpenNETCF.IoC Framework
Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
MVVM Light Toolkit

Answer 1

Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training

Training (Video and PDF) includes:

1. An Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform
2. Game Building on the Windows Phone Platform
3. Advanced Windows Phone Development
4. Selling Your Windows Phone Solutions & Wrap Up

Answer 2

The .Net rest client RestSharp supports wp7. Really simplifies using web services and deserializing the response.