I don’t have a Windows machine, just a Mac and a Linux box. Windows it pretty expensive, and I don’t want to pirate it either.
Is it possible to develop Windows Phone 7 apps in Mac OS X or Linux? Is Visual Studio required?
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I don’t have a Windows machine, just a Mac and a Linux box. Windows it pretty expensive, and I don’t want to pirate it either.
Is it possible to develop Windows Phone 7 apps in Mac OS X or Linux? Is Visual Studio required?
No.
That being said maybe it is possible to run Visual Studio for Windows Phone (which is free) on Linux via Wine but I doubt it.
You can do some Silverlight development on Linux and learn some of the XAML and C# concepts and apply them later on Windows Phone but you won’t be able to write a real WP app without a Windows machine.