Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML

by WindowsPhoneGeek

This is the 5th post  from the "Windows Phone Application Development for Beginners" series of articles in which I use a more informal approach in order to explain everything you need to know in order to get started developing Windows Phone applications in a simple and easy to understand way.

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2 Installing the Tools
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML

NOTE: If you are a professional Windows Phone Developer you should probably stop reading now.(this series if for absolute beginners)

In short XAML is the declarative language used to create phone application UI such as buttons,checkboxes, shapes, text, and other content presented on the screen. You can either write XAML code on your own or use tools like Visual Studio or Expression Blend to create the UI and automatically generate the necessary XAML for you.

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