Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project

published on: 12/22/2011 | Views: N/A | Tags: Beginners

by WindowsPhoneGeek

This is the 4th 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
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout

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

After you have installed the Windows Phone SDK you are ready to start building your first Windows Phone application project with Visual Studio.

Creating your First Visual Studio project

Step1. Start  and instance of Visual Studio

  

Step2. Go to File->New and select Project.

Step3. Next you should see the following popup window. You should select "Silverlight for Windows Phone" from the Installed Templates on the left:

Currently Visual Studio offers the following Windows Phone project templates to get a head start on design and development(Silverlight or XNA Framework applications for Windows Phone):

• Windows Phone Application
• Windows Phone Databound Application
• Windows Phone Class Library
• Windows Phone Panorama Applicatio
• Windows Phone Pivot Application
• Windows Phone Silverlight and XNA Application
• Windows Phone Audio Playback Agent
• Windows Phone Audio Streaming Agent
• Windows Phone Scheduled Task Agent

Because this series is for beginners we will use the basic Windows Phone Application template. If you want to know more then take a look at : Project Templates for Windows Phone

Step4. Fill the Name of your project and press OK

Step5. Next press OK to confirm that you want to use Windows Phone OS 7.1:

Step6. Your first VisualStudio project should look like this:

                                                                                                                                                     Image source: MSDN

Step7. Go to Solution Explorer, right click over the project file and select "Build" in order to compile the project:

Step8.  After the project is compiled successfully either press "F5" or press the "Start Debugging" button(Visual Studio provides tools for testing and debugging applications as you build them).

 

Step9. By default the Visual studio emulator is shown:

That's it for now. In the next posts you will learn how to start building your first  Windows Phone app step by step.

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