Windows Phone 8

After some brief introductions and a detailed overview of the agenda, expert instructors Andy Wigley and Rob Tiffany kick off the course with an information-packed introduction. This is the first part of a two-part module and covers the new app platform in Windows Phone 8, application development…

By now you've learned that the CLR, Windows Phone Client, and Windows Phone Services teams got together to develop "Compiler in the Cloud". All Windows Phone 8 apps written in .NET technologies will get the benefit of this collaboration. The end goal? Really fast…

Join in the fun and help us create buzz worthy conversations...here's what happened this week: Facebook Graph Search  [05:11] Windows Phone nominated for Design Award  [14:43] Nokia DRIVE  [11:25] Microsoft loves the '90's  [16:28]   Thoughts on the MYTHLY site???  …

Writing your first app using DirectX can seem mysterious if you're new to graphics or game development. The Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit was created to help developers understand the basics of DirectX development with a complete Windows 8 application. In this episode, Roberto Sonnino, a software…

Today's Hardware Friday project comes to us via Matt Cavanagh and Controlling a Netduino over Bluetooth with WP8The last time I touched my Netduino was about 5 months ago (due to work-load), around the time of my wedding to make the wedding tank. So this weekend I decided to dust it off and…

Welcome to 2013! We're excited to be back and we're sorry it's taken so long to get a new episode out the door. The Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit provides basic support for consuming DirectX 3D runtime assets produced by the MSBUILD task. This includes loading, rendering, and working with assets…

Windows 8 and Windows are not the same platform. This module will cover how they are different by going over the UI and XAML, Platform specific features and reviewing the data model and supporting code. [06:15] - Windows and Windows Phone convergence [13:25] - UI and XAML [23:13] - Data model and…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen) [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira) [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being…

Out of more than 9,000 competing apps and 600,000 votes by sweepstakes participants around the world, the finals pitted Wikipedia by Rudy Huyn and ProShot by Eddie Kezeli.   The voting was so close, we also wanted to showcase our runner-up with this Channel 9 video.  Second place…

This module provides developers with a comprehensive understanding of the key components required to build a Windows Phone 8 App, including Page Navigation, the Application Bar, building UI for multiple screen resolutions and portrait/landscape orientations, implementing page transition animations…