Windows Phone Development (2): erect confidence, front

In the previous article, we talked about some "cannon" topic, starting from this article, we come together to learn WP development.

First, we have what equipment.

After installing vs learning for WP, also installed with the SDK, do not have to install the JDK like Android, download the IDE, but also install the SDK and Eclipse plug-ins. WP development environment can be installed with one click.

1, simulator.

This east should say more important, if we do not have the ready-made WP phone to do? Simulator to help me solve this problem, we do not need to buy WP mobile phone can also be used in WP application development, not to mention, we cannot always be in the real mobile phone running, the debugging is not convenient.

Start the simulator two ways, one is to start independently, and the other is to start with vs.

Through start-All Programs-Windows Phone SDK version number-Windows Phone Emulator (zh-hant).

With the mouse, we can simulate the real phone operation.

2. Express Blend for Windows Phone.

This guy is also free, of course, if you need to have full-featured blend, such as the ability to design Wpf,silverlight UI and other functions, it is charged.

This tool, believed to have played WPF and Silverlight development Friends is not unfamiliar, it is an interface design tool, can help us to quickly and easily design a beautiful and moving user interface, below we start blend to try it.

The following is the operating interface of blend.

Using this tool, you can easily design a beautiful interface, as well as it also has animation features, of course, and flash animation is different, relatively speaking, no flash so flexible, but for application development, is already very powerful, At least for now, other development platforms like Android don't have such a good tool.

However, this tool is not the main, can be used as an auxiliary tool, we know that the phone screen and PC screen is different, smaller, we are only suitable for the design can be, if it is too much to spend, but will reduce the user experience. It's best to keep the theme of the system unified so that it doesn't make users feel a bit strange.

3. Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone.

This is very familiar to everyone, this is our WP mobile application development of the most important tool, we almost all of the work will be done on VS, there is no need to introduce too much.

Second, the preliminary examination front.

Said so much, not yet into the development of relevant content, OK, next please start VS, create a new Windows Phone application.

Then choose the System version, the default is 7.1, we should choose 7.0.

After the new project, we found a lot of very familiar things, the left is the design-time form, the right is the XAML source view, if you have done WPF or Silverlight development, it must be very cordial, that is, WP development we do not need to spend a lot of time to learn new knowledge, We use Silverlight-related technology to complete the development of WP applications.

Find the two TextBlock in the first StackPanel, and change their Text property, respectively.

To run the program, press F5, we see the simulator automatically start, and start initializing, haha, is not found, WP simulator boot speed than the Android simulator faster than n times.

All right, I'll blow it here today, next time.

Windows Phone Development (2): erect confidence, front