Windows Phone Application Development Using C#/XAML

AboutMe

Pradeep AJ

Member Technical Staff @

Windows Phone Developer

Microsoft MVP

Development Options

C#/XAML

Visual Basic/XAML

html/jss

Requirements

Windows 8 Pro or above with 64bit OS

Your System should have Hardware Virtualisation(SLAT)

Visual Studio 2012

Windows Phone 8 sdk

(Cont.,)

Microsoft Account

Windows Developer Account

App Name Reservation

Before…

JumpStart about C#

What is Visual Studio?

What are the debugging Options associated with it? Output window

BreakPoint

Immediate window

Default Template Apps

Samples

Working with Controls

Navigation Between Pages

App Bar

State Dictionary

WebView Sample

3rd Party Controls

Queries ??

Launchers and Choosers and Storage for Windows Phone

Launchers

To Launch Inbuilt apps Contacts

Email

Browser

Doesnot return value or status

Launhers..

PhoneCallTask

SmsComposeTask

EmailComposeTask

WebBrowserTask

SearchTask

MediaPlayerLancher

Choosers

CameraCaptureTask

PhotoChooserTask

PhoneNumberChooserTask

EmailAddressChooserTask

SavePhoneNumberTask

SaveEmailAddressTask

Combining Launhers and Choosers

PhoneNumberChooserTask + SmsComposeTask

EmailAddressChooserTask + EmailComposeTask

DEMO

Localisation and Globalisation

Why do we Localize/Globalize?

191 Markets and 50 Language Support

Only 25% of Windows Phone Users

12 out of 15 Top apps Support upto 8 Languages and Published over more markets.

Localisation

Step 1: Define Key Value Pairs in the AppResources.resx file

Step 2: Declare the Supported Languages in the Properties File

Step 3: Enable MultiLingual App ToolKit

Do Translation

Publishing Windows Phone Apps

DEMO