Windows Phone Application Development Using C#/XAML

AboutMe  Pradeep AJ  Member Technical  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  3 rd Party Controls

 Queries ??

Launchers and Choosers and Storage for Windows Phone

Launchers  To Launch Inbuilt apps  Contacts   Browser  Doesnot return value or status

Launhers..  PhoneCallTask  SmsComposeTask  ComposeTask  WebBrowserTask  SearchTask  MediaPlayerLancher

Choosers  CameraCaptureTask  PhotoChooserTask  PhoneNumberChooserTask  AddressChooserTask  SavePhoneNumberTask  Save AddressTask

Combining Launhers and Choosers  PhoneNumberChooserTask + SmsComposeTask  AddressChooserTask + ComposeTask

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