Windows 8 App Development Here is a compact yet deep technical exploration of how to develop Windows 8. Related topics elsewhere on this same website (WilsonMar.com):   1. Windows 8 Index - Gurus, Websites, Books, Classes, Videos, Chats, etc.   2. Windows 8 Versions   3. Windows 8 Devices and Carrier Selection   4. Windows 8 Setup   5. Windows 8 Usage Basics   6. Windows 8 App Side-loading   7. Windows 8 App Markets   8. Windows 8 Utility Apps   9. Windows 8 User Apps 10. Windows 8 USB Connections 11. Windows 8 OS Rooting and Unlocking 12. Windows 8 App Frameworks 13. Windows 8 Visual Studio Setup 14. Windows 8 Emulators and Simulators 15. Windows 8 C# Programming and Testing 16. Windows 8 Js Programming and Testing 17. Windows 8 App Localization and Testing 18. Windows 8 Lifecycle Data Management and Testing 19. Windows 8 User Preferences and Experience Features 20. Windows 8 UI Programming and Testing 21. HTML5 Features 22. HTML5 Coding and Testing 23. Windows 8 User Controls Coding and Testing 24. Windows 8 Hardware Control and Testing 25. Windows 8 Services Coding and Testing 26. Windows 8 App Monetization 27. Windows 8 App Marketing

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Developer Programs

Microsoft's Developer Program charges $99 at http://create.msdn.com

TIP: Nokia HAD a developer program which also charges a little more than $99 (in Euros) for two support tickets, plus include Microsoft's program, Telerik RadControls and Buddy.com cloud API usage (a million calls in 12 months).

Nokia's Developer wiki

BLAH: Waiting for https://dmp2.louttokunta.fi/dmp/html_payments...

http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/join

Visual Studio and SDK Installers

WARNING: Express editions of Visual Studio only work for a specific platform (only Windows 8 Store Apps or only Windows Phone 7, etc.).

To work on Windows 8 Store Apps. install Visual Studio 2012 Express on a Windows 8 machine.

To work on Windows Phone 8, on a 64-bit Windows 8 machine, download the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (file WPexpress_full.exe). It's the latest thing.

To convert a Windows Phone 7.5 project to Windows Phone 8, change the target Windows Phone OS version of the project on a Windows 8 machine with Visual Studio installed:

1. From Windows Explorer, double-click the Windows Phone 7 .sln file to open the solution in Visual Studio 2010.
2. In VS Solution Explorer, Right-click the project and select Properties to open the Project Properties window.
3. In the Application tab of the Project Properties window, select Windows Phone OS 8.0 from the Target Windows Phone OS Version dropdown. A dialog asks if you want to upgrade this project to Windows Phone OS 8.0.
4. Select Yes to upgrade the project.

To work on Windows Phone 7, on a Windows 7 machine download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (file vm_web2.exe). It is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

After download, change its file properties to remove "Run in Compatibility Mode". The installer then downloads 602 MB to install Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone Emulator, XNA Game Studio 4.0.

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

To develop Windows Phone 7 apps, use Visual Studio 2010 (file vm_web.exe from create.msdn.com).

.NET 3.5 SP1 added a client-only framework, setup bootstrapper, or ClickOnce deploy.

Language Selection

C# or VB or C++?

Gamers are now required to use C++ calls to DirectX drivers. This is instead of XNA.

Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit

dev.windowsphone.com

Sample App Code

Sample Windows Phone apps

Microsoft's Samples (300 of them).

Reddit WP7DEV

Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Training Course has a "Tidy" app that create notifications, uses a local database, transfer in the background, does fast app switching,

Twitter hashtag #wp7dev.

App Strategy

YOU TUBE: Develop apps that work for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7 (from Nokia Lumia App Labs) by Michael Samarin of Futurice 12 December 2012. [ Slides]

YOU TUBE: Getting started with Windows Phone 8 app development (from Nokia Lumia App Labs) 28 Nov 2012. [ Slides]

YOU TUBE: How to Design Windows Phone Applications with Expression Blend 4 (from Nokia Lumia App Labs) by Eduardo Ortega May 22, 2012, 1:13:47. [ Slides]

The business aspects of an app should be considered as part of the creativity.

Granted, many popular inventions grew out of a need. eBay began with a website targeted only to pez dispensers.

User Scenarios. Screen wireframes.

App Features

http://dev.windowsphone.com/design

http://aka.ms/wp8designbootcamp

http://aka.ms/lightdesign Lightning Design Reviews

http://apptothefuture.core77.com challenge ends Feb 3, 2013. to impress your future self.

Features in the sequence I intend on adding them:

1. Getting sample Hello World project to compile
2. Settings_Sample. wp7.sample.settings.png"> See How to Create a Settings Page
3. App bar
4. Isolated storage
5. Globalization preferences sample
6. Application resources and localization sample
7. Language font mapping sample
8. Number formatting and parsing sample
9. Date and time formatting sample
10. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern to separate data from the user interface using XAML binding to connect Views to the Model.
11. App Bar
12. Login web svcs
• Windows account authorization sample
• Facebook
• Twitter
• OpenID
• Microsoft
• Google
13. Themes for Dark and Light.
14. Toast Notification - Promise
15. Local Database use LINQ to SQL to store relational data in a local database that resides in your app’s isolated storage container. This sample is a to-do list app that uses a multi-table local database.
16. Logging
17. Navigation and navigation history sample
18. Location service displays the geographic coordinates of the device.
19. Microphone to record on an async thread and play audio using the SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance classes.
20. Web services Twitter
21. Raw Sensor from the compass, accelerometer, and gyroscope.
22. NFC
23. Secured WCF REST service enables a common interface (restful?) for both web and mobile applications (cross platform). The sample should include user authentication as well.
24. App activate and suspend using WinJS sample
25. Speech recognition using custom grammar
26. Text to Speech
27. Speech For Windows Phone: Refreshing a phrase list using a background agent
28. HomeGroup app sample
29. XHR, handling navigation errors, and URL schemes sample
30. Message dialog sample
31. Windows Audio Session (WASAPI) sample
32. Windows Runtime XML data API sample
33. XAudio2 audio file playback sample
34. XAudio2 audio stream effect sample
35. XInput and JavaScript controller sketch sample
36. XInput audio controller playback sample
37. XInput game controller sample
38. Edge gesture invocation sample
39. Responding to the appearance of the on-screen keyboard sample
40. Input Touch keyboard sample
41. JavaScript and HTML5 touch game sample
42. Input Touch keyboard text input sample
43. Search contract sample
44. App settings sample
45. JavaScript iframe sandbox attribute sample
46. JavaScript object definition sample
47. Loading HTML fragments sample
48. Contact Picker app sample
49. Previous circle tooltip
50. Reading and writing data sample
51. Secondary tiles sample
52. Static CSS Regions sample
53. UI Automation core window provider sample
54. UI contrast and settings sample
55. HTML Tooltip control sample
56. HTML animation library sample
57. HTML DatePicker and TimePicker controls sample
58. HTML essential controls sample
59. HTML flyout control sample
60. HTML independent animations sample
61. HTML ListView essentials sample
62. HTML ListView customizing interactivity sample
63. HTML ListView grouping and SemanticZoom sample
64. HTML ListView item templates sample
65. HTML ListView loading behaviors sample
66. HTML ListView optimizing performance sample
67. HTML ListView working with data sources sample
68. HTML media playback sample
69. HTML Page controls sample
70. HTML rating control sample
71. HTML scrolling, panning and zooming sample
72. HTML SemanticZoom for custom controls sample
73. HTML ToggleSwitch control sample
74. CSS styling branding your app sample
75. CSS styling for high contrast mode sample
76. CSS typography JS sample
77. Dynamic CSS Region templates sample
78. Dynamic CSS Regions sample
79. Simple imaging sample
80. Using requestAnimationFrame for power efficient animations sample
81. Display orientation sample
82. SimpleOrientationSensor sample
83. Display power state sample - to not turn off display automatically due to user inactivity.
84. Network information sample
85. Network status background sample
86. Playback Manager Companion Sample
87. Playback Manager msAudioCategory sample
88. Playlist sample
89. PlayToReceiver sample
90. OrientationSensor sample

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