Chapter 2. Creating your first Windows Phone application

Now that you have the necessary background on the Windows Phone platform and the Windows Phone Developer Tools, it’s time to get down to business and start programming. You’ll start by building a Hello World project. For developers experienced with Visual Studio, simple Hello World projects may seem unduly remedial. But Windows Phone projects have several unique settings and features that you need to understand to build applications and games. The Hello World project in this chapter is designed to highlight these aspects of Windows Phone development.

In addition to the controls shipped as part of the Windows Phone SDK, we’ll look at a few of the controls that are available in the Windows Phone Toolkit. The Windows Phone Toolkit is an open source project hosted on CodePlex. Microsoft uses the Windows Phone Toolkit project to share new controls and components with the development community.

2.1. Generating the project

2.2. Implementing Hello World

2.3. Interacting with the user

2.4. Page navigation

2.5. Summary