Application Development
Jaliya Udagedara
MVP (Visual C#)
2014
May 12 - Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM
April 2 - Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC
January 20 - Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
2013
October 17 - Visual Studio 2013
Windows Runtime Apps
Windows Runtime contains
more than 90% of Windows
Phone Runtime
All the languages which can be used in Windows Runtime
App development are supported.
What's New in Windows Phone 8.1
So many templates for Windows Phone apps
Universal App template - Came alive with Visual Studio 2013
Update 2
Add Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 8.1
Context Switcher in the Editor
Context Switcher in the XAML Editor
Devices Window
Switching Startup Projects
• Windows Phone 8.1 Application
• Universal App
Thank You!
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Windows Phone Application Development

Editor's Notes

  • #5 Live Tile Vs. Icon
  • #9 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 : low convergence Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 : high convergence
  • #11 Speak about .NET Native
  • #17 On Activated event we can get the it has gone to NotRuning state in the last run (PreviousExecutionState). Three reasons, User closed the app OS terminated the app App crashed http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464925.aspx
  • #20 Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators The Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators package adds six emulator images to an existing installation of Visual Studio. With these emulators installed, developers can test how apps will run on phones running Windows Phone 8.1.
  • #22 Geofencing Your app can receive notifications when the device enters or leaves an app-specified geographic region.  Media Microsoft Media Foundation is the Microsoft next-generation multimedia platform for Windows. Introduced in Windows Vista as the replacement for DirectShow. To help developers create media apps that run on Windows Runtime and Windows Phone 8.1, we expose the same Media Foundation APIs in Windows Phone 8.1 as in Windows Store apps. SD card access Windows Phone 8 supports read-only access to the SD card; Windows Phone 8.1 provides read/write access. 
  • #23 External display support Either wirelessly or using a cable, without having to understand the complexities of the technologies leveraged to accomplish it.