Windows 8 and Phone App Development
Paul Gower
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Design
What is common?
Windows Phone
Windows
Windows
What is different?
Windows Phone
GridView Panorama
GridView
Demo
AppBar
On screen
Develop
PCL –Visual Studio Support
Cross-Platform Development with the Portable Class Library on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx
Portable Class Library
Demo
What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?
Key ScenariosWindows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:
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Linked files
Linked files
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Windows Phone Windows
Linked Files
Demo
#if NETFX_CORE
Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, myAction);
#endif
#if WINDOWS_PHONE
Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(myAction);
#endif
Windows
Windows phone
Compiler Directives
Demo
Comparison
Sharing an assembly (PCL)
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Code remains clean and single purpose
Build, test, compile once
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Limited API access
Can’t reference non-PCL assemblies
Won’t work with Express SKUs (until VS2013)
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Architecture
Portable Class Library
CoreViewModels
Services
Models
Windows
App Startup / Lifecycle
Views
Controls
Converters
ViewModels
Windows Phone
App Startup / Lifecycle
Views
Controls
Converters
ViewModels
Demo
Summary –What to share?
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XPlatformCloudKit
Demo
• Stuart Lodge (creator of MvvmCross) – http://slodge.blogspot.com
• MvvmCross GitHub - http://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross
• Paul DeCarlo (creator of XPlatformCloudKit) – http://pjdecarlo.com
• XPlatformCloudKit GitHub – http://github.com/winappkits/XPlatformCloudKit
• Azure Mobile Services – http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/mobile
• Portable Class Library – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx
• Xamarin Studio – http://www.xamarin.com
Resources
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