Hi Greg >> It's a damn shame you can't write phone apps this pleasantly across all the >> brands
You almost can – check out Xamarin and particularly Xamarin Forms. Especially with the recent announcements (community edition of VS and the doubling of the size limits plus VS support on the Xamarin starter edition), this is a very affordable and extremely productive way to develop mobile apps across 3 major platforms. Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2014 8:32 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project Hi Ian, Stephen at al, FYI I was loaned an Intel Mac for this specific phone job, and I put Windows 8.1 and VS2013.4 on it and the phone emulator runs fine with Hyper-V. I didn't realise until a couple of days ago that Windows Phone development is such a familiar experience if you already know WPF or Silverlight. It's all familiar XAML and coding patterns and almost all of the important class libraries are available and ready-to-go. All of the phone specific stuff is nicely separated and you can reference it when you feel the need. It's a damn shame you can't write phone apps this pleasantly across all the brands -- Greg On 18 November 2014 17:17, ILT (O) <il.tho...@outlook.com<mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com>> wrote: Greg - Yes, Windows 8 has the Hyper-V. But I know that a few people have used the WP8 SDK on Windows 7. I think a requirement is 64-bit Windows? But the VS2012 Express version is suitable. I found this a good jump-off point - Developing Apps for Windows 8<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff402551(v=vs.105).aspx> - possibly the topic about requirements for the emulator is what you needed to see first, though. I do have a Windows Phone, and after a long delay it was updated to WP8.1 a few months ago (Australia followed later than many countries). A beginners tool is called Windows App Studio - I just found its tutorial location again, here<http://appstudio.windows.com/en-us>. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:32 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project Hi Ian (and Stephen), No I was absentmindedly on Windows 7 where I do the bulk of my normal work. In a tiny hint in some web search I saw a comment about no support in Windows 7. I just went over to a VM running VS2013 retail and it has lots of phone templates, so there you go! I staggers me though, as I thought it was all simulated and I find it hard to believe a certain type of VS project needs Windows 8. That means that Windows 8 is actually useful for something!! (for the wrong reasons) -- *Greg* On 18 November 2014 14:42, ILT (O) <il.tho...@outlook.com<mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com>> wrote: > Are you developing on Windows 8.1 with VS2013? > > > ------------------------------ > > Ian Thomas > Albert Park, Victoria > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> > [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2014 2:22 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* VS2013 Windows Phone project > > > > Folks, I have been asked to write a demo Windows Phone app, which I've > never done before, but I'm keen to give it a bash. However, I'm off to a > bad start. VS2013 Update 4 has no New Project template for a phone app. I > have installed all VS2013 features. I can see the Windows Phone SDK v8.0 > and v8.1 folders under Program Files(x86). Web searches hint that I should > just be able to select New Project and off I go. What's missing? -- *Greg > K* >
