Getting Windows Phone 7 development working

So I managed to borrow a Windows Phone 7 for some dev work :)

 

I already had the basic tools installed and had been using the emulator.

But to get the phone dev working...

- you need to install the October 2010 update to the tools

- you need to download and install the zune PC software (60MB download and requires reboot!)

- you need to log on inside the zune PC software

- you need to use the "Windows Phone Developer Registration tool" to unlock your phone

Some more help here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/velloso/archive/2010/10/15/help-can-t-unlock-my-windows-phone-7-can-t-deploy-my-xap-file-or-can-t-run-my-app.aspx

The good news is... this all worked :) Took about 2 hours to get going, most of that spent downloading Zune stuff!