http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2012/02/22/building-the-office-blog-app-for-the-windows-phone-7.aspxBuilding an Office Blog app for the Windows Phone began as a weekend DIY project. While RSS readers are one way to monitor a blog, I was looking for a quicker way so I could stay up to date with our latest news. I found a toolkit on MSDN designed to makeen-USTelligent Community 1.5.134.15456 (Build: 5.5.134.15456)http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2012/02/22/building-the-office-blog-app-for-the-windows-phone-7.aspx#30750Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:46:00 GMT53587256-c606-4c9b-bad4-97c86b12ce62:30750Gabriel Dorta<p>Outstanding! - Great example. Thank you for posting and huge thanks to Chris as well. For next release of the RSS Starter Kit, how about adding two features: (1) Let Users customize the experience a bit - chose from pre-loaded list of feeds, add feeds, change order, etc. almost like Pulse... &amp; (2) image thumbnails on feed title if available, video thumbnail if video media type feed. - Thanks again.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.office.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=30750" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2012/02/22/building-the-office-blog-app-for-the-windows-phone-7.aspx#30747Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:13:50 GMT53587256-c606-4c9b-bad4-97c86b12ce62:30747ShelLuser<p>One small typo in your article: you accidently repeated &quot;is purchase&quot; up there in &quot;all you need to do...&quot;.</p> <p>Interesting links, thanks for sharing these. I have agree; the whole development process is setup very well. Athough I&#39;m no full time developer myself (more a &quot;commercial based systems administrator&quot;) it is something you have to cope with from time to time. Slightly offtopic but; advanced shell scripting is key with maintenance tasks on Unix environments. More ontopic: powershell scripting can make Windows administration so much easier...</p> <p>And being in the process to slowly move away from Java and explore the possibilities of .NET (mainly VB &amp; C#) I can say that Microsofts development platforms are top notch. Right now I&#39;m using the express versions of Visual Studio (VB, C# &amp; Web) and purchased a copy of Expression Studio Web pro. Money well spent; not only are these top products, more impressive is how they all fit together (IMO).</p> <p>Still, I have to say it... &nbsp;My only gripe with developing for the Windows Phone is the IMO steep subscription fee. I recognize the potential (being able to publish apps through the marketplace), but if you&#39;re a mere hobby developer who only wants to run his own apps on his own phone then this is a rather steep price to pay. In my opinion of course.</p> <p>Apart from that, thanks for sharing this; it did gave me some good insights in all this.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.office.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=30747" width="1" height="1">