In this chapter you learned about Windows Phone as a new mobile platform. We looked at how Windows Phone Application Platform offers a standardized platform for developers. We also looked at several features that Windows Phone provides.
Then we looked at a new functional programming language in .NET framework called F#. F#, which started in Microsoft Research Lab is now a mainstream .NET programming language.
After understanding Windows Phone as a platform and F# as a language, we then looked at the prerequisites that are required for developing applications for Windows Phone using F# as the language.
In the next chapter we will take a look at the different project templates we downloaded. We will go in depth into each project and understand the various components of each project.