What is the status of Windows Phone 7 regarding in-app purchases? Is it accessible for developers yet?
Additionally is any plug-in for PhoneGap available?
You can implement yourself already, if you already have the relevant infrastructure in place for handling card payments - in fact Pizza Hut do have quite a good app for ordering and paying for pizza all on the phone (at least in the UK market) - it's just ironic that the quality of their pizzas isn't as high as the app...
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This is not a question about programming, but i hope i get answer.
Do i need developer account that costs 99$ to develop apps for my own Windows Phone?
Already I know that phone is locked and i can install apps only from Marketplace.
Are there any workarounds? I don't want to sell my app, i just need (for my own Nokia Lumia 800) to write some music player with editable playlist, because OEM players are totally useless for me.
In order to test any app on your phone you need to get it unlocked by getting it registered under a developer account. You need not pay $99 if you have a student account on dreamspark. If you don't have that and are still you want to get it unlocked, get it registered under one of your developer friends who have the Dev aaccount.
I am developing an app, which I have tested on the visual studio Emulator. I would Like to deploy it to about 8 Phones within our organization. Is there a way to deploy apps directly to the phones without going through the marketplace, or without having to pay the $99 per year app hub memebership fee. I don't need to deploy apps to the marketplace place at this time, just directly to our personal company phones.
I have tried running the "windows phone developer registration", but I get a message stating that I have to register my phone in the Marketplace, and that is where I am asked to pay a $99 membership fee.
Nope, unfortunately you can't deploy to any phone you want. The phone needs to be developer unlocked, meaning you need to have paid the $99 AppHub membership fee and registered the phone. I believe you can register a maximum of 3 phones under one account.
The other option is to, of course, jailbreak the phone. Google to see if you can lay your hands on a copy of Chevron WP7. The other owners may not be very willing to go along with this though. On the other hand, they'd probably love it if you bought all of them AppHub licenses :-)
You can unregister phones on AppHub, so maybe you can buy one license, unlock 3 phones, test on those, then unlock another 3 after unregistering the first 3 ...
If you have one developer account, you can use the beta feature on the AppHub to allow the other users in your organisation to download the app from the marketplace.
You just have to add their LiveId to the app. There's a limit on users, but if it was 10 or 50, I can't remember. You should go check it out.
If you don't have a developer account, you're pretty much square.
Stay tuned for Chevron Labs, where you will be able to unlock multiple devices for a small fee (in case you don't need to distribute apps in the Marketplace - exactly your situation). Otherwise, your only official choice is the AppHub unlock.
You must register as a developer, for which you have to pay the $99 registration fee. However, the new AppHub update gives you the ability to deploy your apps to the phones in your enterprise at no further cost, and they do NOT have to be developer unlocked.
You have two options. First is the private beta, in which you can have up to 99 people get your app before it goes through certification. I don't remember if this is time-limited or not. Second, is after your app gets certified, you can publish it as a hidden app, and only those people that you want to be able to install the app can. No one else can even see it in Marketplace.
Don't mess with unlocking the phones you want to put the app on - the best way is to go through the process and publish the apps as hidden.
Does Microsoft offer developer license for professionals and students? Is there a special student program?
If you're simply interested in developing using the emulator, there is no license fee to pay. Just download the tools and go to town.
Scott Guthrie actually has a good write-up of all the tools you'll need to download (for free) and how to get started:
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Released - ScottGu's Blog
Registering for the Marketplace to sell your apps is another story. You will have to pay a $99 fee to create your account there unless you are a student participating in Microsoft's DreamSpark program (in which case the registration is free there as well).
To develop applications, it's free.
But if you need to know the price to submit your apps to the marketplace:
Check out Windows Development App Hub
It's $99 US Dollers or £65 in the UK.
That allows you to submit 5 applications. It is $19.99 for each app after that. If you are a student, you get a load of tools free. You can access the student membership via the link above.
the registration prices are here ($99) - http://create.msdn.com/en-US/home/membership
there is a great blog post about how to get from concept to marketplace here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/11/15/windows-phone-7-apps-getting-from-concept-to-customer.aspx
I want to develop an app for my own use only for Windows Phone 7. Can I do it without going through the app store? As in from my PC straight to the phone using USB?
You can do this, up to a limit of 10 apps loaded at a time (presumably per marketplace account).
You need to have an active marketplace subscription to deploy directly to the phone.
As of late 2011, you can unlock your phone for $9 in order to install your own applications: http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-chevronwp7-unlock-now-available-homebrew-apps-come-alive/
Enterprise or out-of-market app deployment is not available as part of the initial release:
There won't be the ability [at launch] to distribute applications outside the marketplace," Bigg said. "But we are looking into how we enable other [app deployment] scenarios in the future.
No. You are required to have a AppHub account to unlock your device before you can deploy any applications.
An AppHub account is available for Students for FREE through the Microsoft Dreamspark initiative and $99 USD annual subscription for commercial or individual developers. For more information about AppHub read this article.
So you have two options**:
register at an education provider, perhaps in an advanced programming or CS unit.
pay the USD$99 for the annual subscription and publish your applications to the store either as free or try to recoup the investment of the subscription and your time.
** actually you have three options but I will not discuss the third one here...
Where can I buy a Windows Phone 7 developer device? How much does it cost?
You simply buy a normal device and then use the Zune software to associate it with a developer account. That will let you deploy your own applications to it. (You do need to have the developer account though, which I believe costs $99 per year.)
The cost will vary by country, device and operator of course. I bought mine without a contract, which was obviously beneficial as I already have a perfectly good contract :)
If you don't want to renew your contract, you could buy an unlocked phone from sites like this one: http://www.expansys-usa.com/s.aspx?sid=27172360&cat=WINPHONE&search=window%20phone%207
If you're in the US, the phones from AT&T listed at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/buy/7/phones.aspx are available without a contract for $499.99
The cheapest HTC device at writing this (November 2010) is the HTC Mozart. That's the device that is equivalent to the developer phone, however they are extremely over priced (atleast in the UK) on ebay right now.
Your best bet for results that will be exactly what other windows mobile 7 users see would be to get a Samsung Omnia 7 which you can get for about £500 from http://www.inkino.co.uk/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4186&zenid=5j8upvperu5th8j52qp7fdp945.
It's a pretty steep cost but it will give you the best results for what your app will actually be like and for any performance issues the hardware might have
Really not sure what you mean by this. The development tools are free to download online.
A windows phone will be available from you local mobile phone shop.
I'd imagine you could just buy a Windows Phone 7 on contract from a phone network operator.
Alternatively, you can run a simulator on your PC. This would do for most of your development needs. The simulator is available for a free download off the Windows 7 Phone website.