Windows Phone Development Basics

Types of applications:

Silverlight : The Silverlight framework supports XAML based application development

XNA : The XNA framework supports loop based games.

Above two can also be combined in a single application.

If you just want to develop the windows phone app , then you first have to get the following tool.

Getting the tools

• Windows Phone Developer Center is the base for all your app development.
• You can get all downloads at dev.windowsphone.com .
• Design apps for windows phone
• Now submit apps for testing and publishing at windows store.

Getting a Windows Phone Developer Account

·        You do not need a Windows Phone Developer account to download the SDK and start developing apps

·        You do need a developer account to unlock a phone for development and to submit apps for testing and publication in the Windows Phone Store (formerly known as Windows Phone Marketplace)

·        To get a Developer Account:

·        Included if you have an MSDN subscription

·        Free to students who have a Dreamspark subscription

            https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=26

            $99 charge per annum for individual developers

So Advantages of Window Phone

Windows Phone 8 has very many new features

The shared core means that at a low level, components of the OS are the same between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 supports XAML+managed, XNA+managed,

Direct3D+native app development, and hybrids of those

Apps built for Windows Phone OS 7.1 in general run without

modification or recompilation on Windows Phone 8