Hello Windows PhoneVersion: 1.2.0 DescriptionThis lab intends to be the classic "Hello World" application, introducing you to the tools and procedures required to build and test Silverlight for Windows Phone applications. During the lab, you will see how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phones along with Expression Blend to build and design your Windows Phone applications, and how to deploy and debug your Windows Phone applications on the Windows Phone Emulator. OverviewThis lab aims to present the classic “Hello World” application, introducing you to the tools and procedures required to build and test Silverlight for Windows Phone applications. The Windows Phone Application Platform enables:
During the course of the lab, you will see how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone and Expression Blend to build and design your Windows Phone applications. Visual Studio provides an environment oriented towards application developers whereas Expression Blend is more suited to user experience (UX) designers. The tools complement each other and enable extensive designer/developer collaboration. This lab demonstrates a typical development scenario, where you initially create application logic and lay out pages and controls for your Windows Phone application in Visual Studio, and then design the user experience using Expression Blend by applying styles and animations to pages and controls. In this lab, you learn about the structure of a Windows Phone application and find out how to use Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to create the user interface (UI) for your application. XAML is a declarative language; it's the primary format for declaring a Silverlight UI and the elements in that UI. Finally, you learn how to deploy and debug your Windows Phone application on the Windows Phone Emulator. ObjectivesThe audience for this lab is developers who have some familiarity with Microsoft tools, such as Visual Studio, and is relatively new to Silverlight. If you are comfortable with the Silverlight programming model and already work with Visual Studio and the Microsoft Expression suite, you may consider skipping this lab. On the other hand, if you are completely new to Silverlight, we highly recommend that you enrich your Silverlight skills by first reviewing some Silverlight labs that can be found at https://silverlight.net/learn/. Furthermore, if you are unfamiliar with Visual Studio as a working environment, we recommend that you start by getting to know this environment with the help of the documentation at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd831853.aspx. In this hands-on lab, you will:
PrerequisitesThe following are required to complete this hands-on lab:
ExercisesThis hands-on lab includes the following exercises:
Estimated time to complete this lab: 45 minutes. |