Part01 Absolute Beginners Series For Windows Phone 8
Series for Absolute Beginners
Google Apps for Win Phone -- http://metrodrive.apptubb.com
Windows Phone Developer Support Forum -- Request an app that you want developed -- http://support.metapps.net
According to the title of this series, this training is for "absolute beginners", and while that is definitely true—we will begin with the very basics of building phone apps—you'll see that we quickly move into utilizing some of the new and advanced features on the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
This series is made possible due to the positive response to my original series, Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners. We've redesigned this series completely—so if you watched that series, you'll not recognize a single thing in this new series.
Before watching this series, you should already be familiar with C#. If you're not, please put this series on the back-burner for a few days and instead watch Channel9's C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners. I designed that series with you, the absolute C# novice, in mind. At a minimum, you'll need to get the basics of object oriented programming —classes, properties, methods, visibility modifiers, collections, generic collections, and the like—under your belt before attempting this series.
We approached this series of lessons as a tutorial...in other words, the series teaches how to build apps by walking through the steps required to build two full featured apps. Hopefully this approach will help you see how concepts fit together in a real app scenario. I'll also build a number of tiny apps just to illustrate some small concepts in hopes of clarifying fundamental ideas.
I'm also going to cover things like the operating system and hardware requirements, the software you'll need to install to get started, getting a developer license, designing an app, submitting to the store, and more. So, hopefully, this is a great starting point for developers new to Windows Phone 8 development.