Up and Running with Windows Phone 8 Development

- [Voiceover] Greetings. I'm Doug Winnie, and I'm going to take you through the basics of building apps for Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform. Windows Phone 8 is the latest generation of Microsoft's mobile platform that has a unique design aesthetic that ties in with the latest version of their desktop operating system, Windows 8. Windows Phone 8 combines a number of unique features like live tiles that give you updates to the things that are important to you right on your home-screen. In this course we'll look at the overall process of making an app for Windows Phone 8. We'll start with an overview of the project.

Then we'll dive into creating the user interface using visual studio 2012 for Windows Phone, and the XAML markup language. Next we'll build the logic of our app using the programming language C#, and then look at the design templates that Microsoft provides to help us make icons and images for our app. Finally, we will test our app using the built in emulator, and on a locally connected device, then submit to the Windows Phone store for people to install on their phones. So let's get Up and Running with Windows Phone 8 Development.