We finally registered for Windows Mobile Marketplace. We received multiple confirmations that registrations for Current Windows Mobile Marketplace will be valid for Windows Phone 7 development.

We registered for Windows Mobile Marketplace mainly to get more documentation and benefits related to Windows Phone 7. We also stake claim on Developer version of Windows Phone :)

Signup process for Windows Mobile Marketplace was simple :

• Requires a Windows Live ID
• You get to pick whether you are registering as : Business, Individual or Student. We picked as an individual to get rid of sign up woes. Signing up as business requires Company related documents which as a new company we don’t have. We are in process of applying for the same. We signed up as an individual and hope that we may be able to change it in future.
• They charge $99 fee to signup. I don’t know how but $99!=Rs.5010. I don’t know how MS converts the currency! $1=Rs.46 at the time of signup.
• They sent your order to GeoTrust to Verify you as a legitimate person.
• For India, Geotrust asked us about Passport or Driving License copy faxed to phone number.
• We are still awaiting a “verification” call from them. It’s been already 4 days.

One mistake we did while Signing up and I hope you guys don’t do that is : I didn’t provide cell number as Phone #2.

Once the signup will be complete, we will be shown as Verified Publisher :)

Now on to good stuff, submitting my video to claim WP7 developer Handset :). It is coming in 1-2 days.

BTW, We did email Brandon Watson about our business ideas. I think with posting of Video on YouTube, we will be done with staking claim on that developer Phone :)

UPDATE : We are now approved in Windows Marketplace. Waiting for Microsoft to start accepting applications

We at SilverCrux are ready to announce our big for the Windows Phone 7 Platform. We are going to do something around 6-7 applications that should be available for the Windows Phone 7 launch this holiday season.

We are going to accepting Windows Phone application development projects for outsource as well from October, 2010. Our rates for outsource development on Windows Phone 7 will be quote based, but our quotes will be based on efforts priced at something like $35/hour.

For our products line up, we are not ready to reveal the whole line up. What we are going to do however is do a series of blog posts that will be working towards our first application Pregnancy related. We are thinking about naming it PregnancyTrack .

PregnancyTrack will be pregnancy related application that will helps:

• Help to Plan Pregnancy – Indicate hot dates, apply some gender determinations etc.
• Keeps track of Pregnancy when Pregnancy is achieved, things like week by week development information, Important information, Set up Reminders for Doctor visits etc.
• Once Delivery is complete, it keeps track of baby’s progress upto 12 months timeline. Also contains most important information related to dealing Colic issues, Gripes, Stool etc.

We are thinking that the application will be priced around $2.99

Now back to technical stuff, since this blog is thoroughly technical :

• This will be a Silverlight based application
• For internal database kind of activities, we will be relying on XML and Linq to XML magic.
• For most up to date informations, we will be relying on WCF Services hosted at our product microsite : Pregnancy by Week

Now we haven’t signed up for Windows Mobile Marketplace because we are just awaiting for things to get little clearer. For eg, we aren’t sure if current Marketplace membership enrolment will be valid for Windows Phone 7 application submissions etc. We are also interested in applying for Windows Phone 7 developer phone, but aren’t sure yet how-to do it. If there is any Windows Phone team member reading this, please clarify how to signup for developer phone ? . We are based in INDIA and aren’t sure about your policies regarding giving access of the Developer Phones to developers in INDIA. Even if Windows Phone 7 doesn’t launch here, we still do lot of work for our US Clients and are heavily motivated towards developing for the Windows Phone 7.

In next few blog posts, we are going to walk-through this application from : Photoshop Designs to silverlight implementations. I also want to clarify that this won’t be an open-source project. So guys please don’t ask for Source. We will discuss implementation details but not full source-code.