We are delighted to present our Windows Phone 7 Tutorial series for building and deploying applications for the Operating System. In the series of tutorials, we will be covering up the following areas :
Exercise 1: Creating Windows Phone Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Task 1 – Creating a Windows Phone Application Project in Visual Studio.
Task 2 – Solution Explorer
Task 3 – Building and Testing the Application in the Windows Phone Emulator
Task 4 – Designing the Windows Phone User Interface
Task 5 – Handling Events from the User Interface
Task 6 – Managing Errors in the Application
Task 7 – Verification
Exercise 2: Using Expression Blend to Design the UX of your Windows Phone Application
Task 8 – Creating a Custom Button in Expression Blend – I
Task 9 – Creating a Custom Button in Expression Blend – II
Task 10 – Adding Visual States to the Custom Control
Task 11 – Creating an Animation for the Banner Text
Task 12 – Verification & Testing of final application
Apart from Visual Studio 2010 express edition you need Windows Phone developer tools to deploy applications.
Windows Phone Developer Tools includes:
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Emulator
- Silverlight for Windows Phone
- XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP
Download Links:
- VS2010 Express for Windows Mobile Homepage
- Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
The author Vipul is a Microsoft Student Partner and blogs at VipulTaneja.com.
