New developers to Windows Phone might want to take a look at Matthias Shapiro's post over on MSDN's Appsmash blog, where he has lifted out ten highlights from the many code samples available on the Microsoft Developer Network. In actual fact he went for thirty to make an infographic and a Silverlight demo app, but then brought the top ten into a post.

There are a lot of very cool samples on MSDN covering a lot of topics. As I went through them I was so inspired, I thought a visual of the samples would be a great way to help navigate them. So I selected 30 of my favorite sample and put together this chart showing how the samples walk through different Windows Phone 8 features and technologies.

You can start browsing all the samples at the Appsmash blog.