Windows Phone 7.5 Design and Development

Malin De SilvaMicrosoft Student Ambassador

Overview

• Introduction• Develop with Visual Studio• Design with Expression Blend• Q and A

Introduction – Get Prepared• Requirements• Operating Systems: Windows 7 / Windows Vista except Starter Edition• 4GB memory in hard disk• 3GB RAM preferred• Visual Studio 2010 SP1

• Download Developer Tools• bit.ly/WPTools

Introduction

• Technology• Silverlight for general purpose applications• XNA for Incredible Gaming

• Resources• dev.windowsphone.com

• Developer Tools

Demo - Creating a WP App in Visual Studio• Create a new project• Solution Structure Overview• Design and Code Behind• Toolbox• Layouts in Silverlight• Grid• Stack Panel• Canvas

• Using the Windows Phone Emulator

Application Types

• General Applications • Panorama Applications• Pivot Applications

Microsoft Expression Blend

• Design apps that use the full power of Silverlight.

• Features:Sketch FlowPhotoshop and Illustrator ImportSample DataVisual State ManagerStyling and CustomizationModern user interface

Demo – Designing with Expression Blend• Create a new project• Overview of windows• Transformations and Animations• Import Photoshop and Illustrator• Open the project in Visual Studio

Q and A

• My Samples on MSDN

• Connect Windows Phone with Remote Server through WCF bit.ly/WPApp1

• Couple Matching Game using Silverlightbit.ly/WPApp2

Thank You!