Building a Note-Taking App for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store

Building an app for one platform just isn’t good enough anymore. Android, Windows, and iOS support are all required for a successful product—but learning the different environments is difficult. This course is one of a matched set spanning the three platforms and will demonstrate their similarities and differences. Start with the product most familiar to you, then watch the parallel courses to understand how to bridge your knowledge.

Lynda – Windows Phone SDK Essential Training 2013

Discover how to build professional apps that encompass the 17 major feature areas of Windows Phone, from XAML to multimedia to network access. In this course, author Michael Lehman details the standard hardware device configuration, teaches how to navigate the development environment, and explores the Windows Phone APIs. The course shows how to build sample applications while learning Windows Phone concepts and frameworks, including the Metro design language.

Up and Running with Windows Phone 8 Development

This course provides an introduction to the Windows Phone 8 platform and the basic tenets of the Modern UI design style, through the development of a basic tip calculator application. First, author Doug Winnie shows how to install and set up the Visual Studio tool to build your application. Next, learn how to use XAML to build a basic structure for your application’s interface and customize its design with user- and system-defined styles and options. This user interface connects to application logic with a process called code-behind files, which are written in C#, one of the three languages available to build Windows Phone 8 applications. Finally, discover how to add icons and other design elements to your application and then submit it to Microsoft for inclusion in the Windows Store.

Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Windows Azure is the most opted for cloud technology, and is getting better each day.

With the increasing number of users of Windows Phone and Windows 8, the necessity for a good robust cloud service to support the apps is increasing.

Windows Azure Mobile Services is a set of Windows Azure hosted services that are designed to quickly build, deploy, and manage a mobile web-connected app.

Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Multitasking

Windows Phone Mango brings new multitasking capability for third party application developers, in the form of fast application switching and background agents. In this course, we explore the new execution model that enables fast app switching, and we examine how to leverage this model in our applications. We also seek to understand what background agents are, how they work and how to use them, be it for scheduling simple popup reminders and alarms, or for running custom code in the background at regular time intervals. We also take a deep dive into the new background audio and background file transfer capabilities Mango brings to the table.

Pluralsight – Windows Phone 7.5 Integration Features

In this course, we explore the powerful integration features of Windows Phone 7.5, which let our applications blend right into the phone’s incredible native experience. Specifically, we take a deep dive into the hot new live tiles, we explore Push Notifications and the way they can greatly enhance both our application’s usefulness and attractiveness, and we look at how we can significantly improve our app’s discoverability by leveraging the phone’s search integration features using AppConnect and Bing Search

Windows Phone 7.5 Data

this course explores the various ways Windows Phone applications access data. Parts 1 and 2 look at creating and accessing a local SQL database on the phone. Part 3 examines the user data APIs which let applications work with contacts and calendar on the phone. Part 4 discusses accessing an external data service from a phone application. All modules focus on real-world, no-nonsense scenarios involving querying, displaying, and in some cases updating domain-specific application data.