This document discusses building Windows Phone applications with Visual Studio 2010. It describes the Windows Phone developer tools, Visual Studio, the Windows Phone emulator, and the Windows Phone profiler. The emulator allows testing and debugging applications without a physical device. Visual Studio provides an integrated development environment and debugging capabilities. The profiler helps optimize applications by identifying performance bottlenecks.

1. Building Windows
Phone Applications
with Visual Studio
2010

2. Topics
 Application Platform Introduction
 Windows Phone Developer Tools
 Visual Studio 2010
 Windows Phone Emulator
 Windows Phone Profiler
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3. Windows Phone Application
Platform – On “Screen”
Runtime Tools
Sensors Media Data Location Phone Emulator
Phone Xbox LIVE Notifications Samples Documentation
.NET Framework managed code sandbox Guides Community
Packaging and Verification Tools
SCREEN
CLOUD Cloud Services Portal Services
Notifications App Deployment Registration Marketplace
Location Identity Feeds Validation MO and CC Billing
Social Maps Certification Business Intelligence
Publishing Update Management
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4. From Development to Device
Windows Phone SDK
Phone Emulator
Samples Documentation
Guides Community
Packaging and Verification Tools
AppHub Consumer
myapp.xap
Windows Phone
Emulator
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5. Windows Phone SDK
Free Download!:
http://create.msdn.com
 WPSDK Includes:
 Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition
 Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone
 Windows Phone Developer Registration Tool
 Application Deployment Tool
 Visual Studio is an Integrated Development
Environment for creating Applications and Games
 Expression Blend 4 is a visual design tool
 Build user experiences, animations, configure data
bindings, and create sample data
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6. Demo
Demo 1: Creating a Silverlight Application

7. XNA Framework Game Projects
 XNA Framework used to build 2D and 3D games
 XNA Framework targets Xbox, PC, and Windows
Phone
 Same APIs, different input mechanisms
 Three projects make up an XNA Framework Solution
 Two projects support compile-time integration of
Content
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8. Game Loop Overview
Initialize Load Get User
Engine Resources Input
Calculate
Test Criteria
Give
Free Resources FeedBack
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9. Game Loop Overview
XNA Framework Game Loop
Initialize() LoadContent()
Updatet()
Draw()
UnLoadContent()
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10. Windows Phone Emulator
 The emulator does not contain the complete Windows
Phone experience
 No Zune media playback
 Only the browser application built in
 Internet Explorer 9 browser with HTML5 support
 Provides the phone behaviors for items like placing calls
and sending SMS messages
 There are also some entries in the Address Book and
pictures in the media library
 Supports multiple touchpoints to pinch and zoom on multi-
touch monitor
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11. Windows Phone Emulator
Capabilities
 Near complete application development possible with
the Emulator
 Performance test on a device
 Rich simulation capabilities
 Camera Simulation
 Location Simulation
 Accelerometer Simulation
 Screen-Capture Tool
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12. Visual Studio Debugging
 Visual Studio provides an exceptional debugging
experience
 This experience extends to Windows Phone
 You can do all the debugging actions in Windows
Phone that you can do with a Windows PC application
 Breakpoints
 Single Stepping
 Viewing and modifying variables
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13. Windows Phone Profiler
 The performance analysis tool
will tell you where your
program is spending most of its
time
 Then you can consider
optimising those parts
 It is activated from the Debug
menu
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14. Performance Analysis Settings
 You can create and activate diagnostic settings that
you can use and reuse as you develop the application
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15. Analysis Data
 The analysis provides plenty of good data
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16. Developer Unlock a Device
 Before you can deploy your own
programs to the device you need
to register it as a developer device
 This is done once for a particular
phone
 Registered developers can
register up to 3 devices
 Registered students can
register 1 device
http://create.msdn.com – AppHub
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17. Deploying Applications to a
Device
 The Windows Phone device uses the Zune software
to connect to the Windows PC
 Synchronize media and choose applications
 Perform phone updates
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18. Demo
Demo 5: Debugging and the Windows
Phone Profiler
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19. Summary
 Visual Studio brings together code and assets and
tools to help you be productive right away
 The emulator provides similar capabilities to a
Windows Phone device, but it does not emulate the
actual hardware speed
 It can emulate the camera, GPS and
accelerometer sensors
 You can also use the emulator to capture screenshots
of active applications and games
 The Windows Phone Developer Tools includes
powerful debugging and profiling tools
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