Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 21. Creating your first Windows Phone 8 application

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Creating a Windows Phone project

• Use essential XAML controls in the Windows Phone Toolbox.

• Writing the code

• Testing Windows Phone apps

• Application life cycle considerations

As you learned in Chapter 20 the Visual Studio 2013 IDE is ready to help you build Windows Phone applications. If you’ve completed that chapter and have worked through the Windows Store programming content in this book, you’re ready to build your first Windows Phone 8 app right now.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create a mobile phone application that keeps score on the golf course as you play a real or imagined 18-hole round. If you have no particular interest in golf, ...