Visual studio 2012 for windows phone 8

In this tutorial, you’ll create your first Windows Phone 8 application. The aim of this article is to familiarize yourself with some of the building blocks of the Windows Phone 8 SDK. If you haven’t read the introduction of this series, then I recommend you do so first. It’s important that you have a good understanding of the platform before creating applications for it.

1. Prerequisites

We’re going to create a basic Windows Phone 8 application using C#. You need to have Visual Studio installed as well as the Windows Phone 8 SDK. If you don’t have Visual Studio installed, then I recommend you install Visual Studio Express 2012, which you can download from Microsoft’s Download Center. This will install the necessary software and tools for Windows Phone 8 development.

By installing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone 8, you install the following applications and tools:

• Visual Studio Express 2012
• .Net Framework
• Windows Phone 8 SDK
• Blend For Visual Studio 2012

With the development tools installed, it’s time to start creating your very first Windows Phone 8 application.

2. Your First Application

To create a new Windows Phone project, launch Visual Studio Express 2012 and select New Project > Windows Phone App from the File menu. Give the project a name, specify a location to save the project to, and click OK.

Make sure to select the Visual C# template from the list of Templates on the left. Visual Studio will also ask you about the version you want to target. We’ll be targeting version 8.0.

3. Launch Your Application

We now have a very basic Windows Phone project to work with. Let’s launch the application to see what it actually looks like on the Windows Phone emulator.

To run your application in the Windows Phone emulator, click the green play button at the top left of the window. This will launch the emulator, install your application, and launch it in the emulator.

The result is a screen similar to the one shown below. You can choose between several emulators in Visual Studio. Feel free to play around with the other emulators, but don’t choose the Windows Phone 7 emulator as our project targets Windows Phone 8.

Conclusion

Creating a Windows Phone 8 project and running it in the emulator is as simple as that. Of course, our Windows Phone 8 application isn’t very functional yet with only one screen and no user interaction. In the next tutorial, you’ll learn how to add functionality to your Windows Phone 8 application.

1. Windows Phone 8 SDK Offline Version (1.6 G.B.).
2. Windows Phone 8 SDK Web Version.

Microsoft has just released an update for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and 8.0 to provide support for Windows Phone 7.8 emulators. I have shared the details in my last blog post.

In this article, I will walk you through how it would look to work with this update.

The following simple steps will help you with it:

1. Install Windows Phone SDK 8.0 or Windows Phone SDK 7.1
2. Install Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 from Microsoft

   Click the Download button for ‘WPexpress78_update.exe’.

3. Double Click on ‘WPexpress78_update.exe’ and Click on ‘Install’ to apply this update.

   Note: Depending on the network bandwidth, it would take some time to download and install necessary packages.

   

   

   Once the update is completed, you will receive the confirmation.

4. Launch Your Visual Studio 2010 or 2012, and open up/create a Windows Phone project.

   

Now go to the device selection drop down and you can see that new set of 7.8 emulators (256MB and 512MB) are added to the list.

and click on ‘Run’.

Now you play with emulator for some time. You can see the new tile resizing option to display small tiles for your application. And also you can create Flip, Cycle, and Iconic template based live tiles as well.

Just sharing some screen shots of sample app on emulator with Medium, small application live tile display.

Why do you need this separate set of emulators for 7.8, instead I can use the old 512MB/256MB emulator right?

NO, you require Windows Phone 7.8 emulators to setup and test the new Cycle, Flip, or Iconic – live tiles[small sized] for your application. Also to have the new feature — ‘Live Tile light up’ (an easy way for you to add Windows Phone 8 Live Tile functionality to your Windows Phone OS 7.1 app so that when it’s run on a Windows Phone 7.8 or Windows Phone 8 device, it «lights up» the new templates!)

The following articles would help you understand this further:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj720574(v=vs.105).aspx
• http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/01/22/windows-phone-7-8-and-windows-phone-8-live-tile-light-up-for-windows-phone-os-7-1-apps.aspx
• Read about Flip, Cycle, and Iconic live tile templates.

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Создаём приложение для Windows Phone 8

Подготовка

Вам нужно загрузить и установить Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone для того, чтобы создавать приложения для Windows Phone Store.

Разработка

От Вас требуется добавить в игру управление посредством тачскрина, как это сделать — смотрите тут. У разных девайсов — разное разрешение экрана, экспериментируйте с функцией «Fullscreen in Browser».

Экспорт из Construct 2

Сперва убедитесь что ввели необходимые данные и активировали режим Fullscreen-in-browser. Затем нажмите Export Project и выберите Windows Store. В папке с экспортированным приложением Вы найдете проект Visual Studio — в подпапке Assets есть всяческие иконки, замените их на необходимые, если требуется.
Основной файл имеет расширение .sln . Кликните по нему два раза, и Visual Studio откроет его.

Тест посредством Visual Studio

Visual Studio — это сложный инструмент для разработки приложений. Нам, впрочем, потребуется всего лишь пара его функций. Найдите на верхних вкладках эту кнопку, и нажмите на треугольник:

В Visual Studio также встроен эмулятор WIndows Phone 8. Собственно, если программа запустится, то экспорт прошел уачно и приложение также хорошо будет работать на телефоне с этой ОС.

Рядом с этой кнопкой есть выдвижное меню, которое в данный момент в режиме Debug. Смените этот режим на Release. Затем BUILD>Solution. В результате вы получите файл с расширением .xap, являющийся приложением для WIndows 8 Phone.