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Part 1: Series Introduction
Hello and welcome to this 35-lesson series on building apps for the Windows Phone 8 platform. My name is Bob Tabor, and for the past 11 years I've been creating screen cast training for Microsoft's...
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Part 2: Installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfBefore you can develop a Windows Phone 8 app, you'll need to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Software...
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Part 3: Writing your First Windows Phone 8 App
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfNow that we have the tools we need installed, we can build our first Windows Phone 8 app.Here's our game...
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Part 4: Introduction to XAML
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIn this lesson, I want to talk about the XAML syntax we wrote in our first pass at the SoundBoard app....
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Part 5: Basics of Layout and Events
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIn this lesson I want to talk about layout, or in other words, how controls are positioned and arranged on...
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Part 6: Styling the App
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfWith the basics of XAML, layout and events in place, let's do something fun. We'll give some unique character...
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Part 7: Localizing the App
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIn this lesson I'll explain how to localize your app ... that simply means that we can present the various...
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Part 8: Understanding Compilation and Deployment
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIf you'll recall from the C# Fundamentals series, the C# compiler compiles the code in your project to create...
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Part 9: Overview of the Windows Phone 8 Emulator
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfWe've seen the Windows Phone Emulator at work in this series. It is a crucial component to developing apps...
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Part 10: Overview of the Databound App and Pivot App Project Templates
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfWe spent the first 9 lessons learning the absolute basics and we were able to build a very simple app. Yes,...
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Part 11: Setting up the SoundBoard App
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfThe PetSounds app was a nice way to learn about playing media, but we have commercial aspirations with our...
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Part 12: Improving the View Model and Sample Data
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfNow that we've completed the basic setup chores, we want to focus on the heart of the application: the data...
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Part 13: Styling Tiles in the LongListSelector
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIn the previous lesson, we made a lot of progress in wiring up a new data model to the MainPage.xaml and now...
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Part 14: Binding to Real Data at Runtime
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfSo, how far along are we with our SoundBoard app?Well, we have a new data model in place, and in the previous...
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Part 15: Playing a Sound when a ListItem is Selected
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfNow that we have our data model loaded with live data, not the least of which is the path to the sound files,...
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Part 16: Working with the Application Bar
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfOur app works great as a simple SoundBoard, but we want to push the envelop and enable custom sounds—sounds...
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Part 17: Introducing the Coding4Fun Toolkit
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfRecording a custom sound in our app would be difficult to code by hand. Fortunately, your friends at...
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Part 18: Navigating Between Pages
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfWhen someone clicks the microphone icon in our app bar, we want to take them to a new page where we can allow...
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Part 19: Setting up the RecordAudio.xaml Page
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfNow that we can navigate to the new RecordAudio.xaml page, it's time to focus on the layout of this page. If...
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Part 20: Recording an Audio Wav File
Source Code: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8 PDF Version: http://aka.ms/absbeginnerdevwp8pdfIn this lesson we'll write the code required to record the custom sound. We'll employ the Coding4Fun Toolkit...
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