Summary

This chapter began by guiding you through the installation of the Windows Phone development tools. It then walked you through the creation of a first XAML base app for Windows Phone. You saw how the App class is used to perform the startup activities of your app and enables you to define resources, such as styles, that can be used throughout your application.

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