A basic overview for a beginner who is interested in design and develop Windows Phone applications.

1. Windows Phone 7.5
Design and Development
Malin De Silva
Microsoft Student Ambassador

2. Overview
• Introduction
• Develop with Visual Studio
• Design with Expression Blend
• Q and A

3. Introduction – Get
Prepared
• Requirements
• Operating Systems: Windows 7 / Windows Vista except Starter Edition
• 4GB memory in hard disk
• 3GB RAM preferred
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Download Developer Tools
• bit.ly/WPTools

4. Introduction
• Technology
• Silverlight for general purpose applications
• XNA for Incredible Gaming
• Resources
• dev.windowsphone.com
• Developer Tools

5. Demo - Creating a WP App in Visual
Studio
• Create a new project
• Solution Structure Overview
• Design and Code Behind
• Toolbox
• Layouts in Silverlight
• Grid
• Stack Panel
• Canvas
• Using the Windows Phone Emulator

6. Application Types
• General Applications
• Panorama Applications
• Pivot Applications

7. Microsoft Expression Blend
• Design apps that use the full power of Silverlight.
• Features:
Sketch Flow
Photoshop and Illustrator Import
Sample Data
Visual State Manager
Styling and Customization
Modern user interface

8. Demo – Designing with Expression Blend
• Create a new project
• Overview of windows
• Transformations and Animations
• Import Photoshop and Illustrator
• Open the project in Visual Studio

9. Q and A
• My Samples on MSDN
• Connect Windows Phone with Remote Server through WCF
bit.ly/WPApp1
• Couple Matching Game using Silverlight
bit.ly/WPApp2

10. Thank
You!