By Marco Massarelli (http://www.slideshare.net/marcomassarelli/develop-for-windows-phone-20121213) Appsterdam TalkLab Dec 13th 2012

1. Develop apps for
Windows Phone
Marco Massarelli
http://ceoloide.com

2. Develop apps for Windows
Phone
1. Get set up
2. Create your first app
3. Discover the platform
4. Q&A

3. 11 Get set up

4. 1 Get set up
• Download the free developer tools
SDK 8.0
+
SDK 7.1 + SDK 7.1.1 Update
+

5. 1 Get set up
• Download the Windows Phone toolkit
Get the toolkit
• Register your phone for development
Register as a developer
How to register your phone

6. 2
1 Create your first
app

7. 2 Create your first app
• Start Visual Studio and create a new project.
Choose the Windows Phone App template.

8. 2 Create your first app
• Choose what version you want to target.
– Remember that Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps are
compatible with OS 8.0

9. 2 Create your first app
The project structure is displayed on the
right sidebar.
WP8 applications have pages, which are
composed of three files, displayed as a collapsed
group.
Applications can be debugged
on one of the many Windows can be edited graphically
XAML files for pages
or by writing the code directly.
Phone emulators or on a
phisical device.

10. 3
2 Discover the
platform

11. 3 Discover the platform
• Data
– Isolated Storage, Key-Value Store, SQL DB
– Media library
• Communication
– Sockets, VoIP, Bluetooth, NFC
• Multitasking
– App suspension, fast app resume, background agent
(transfer, auto upload, periodic agents, audio, …)

12. 3 Discover the platform
• Integration
– Tile (*), notifications, lock screen
– Launchers and choosers (*)
– Camera and photos, camera lenses
– Contacts and calendar (*)
– Audio / video (microphone, audio streaming, video)
– Sensors (accelerometer, compass, gyroscope), Motion API
– Search extensibility
– Speech recognition, voice commands, text to speech
– Wallet and payments

13. 3 Discover the platform
• Online documentation
Windows Phone development
API Reference
Design library
• Free ebook
Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold

14. 3 Discover the platform
• Online resources
Windows Phone Geek

15. 4
3 Q&A

16. Thank you!