Introduction session about windows phone 8

1. Old
Windows
Mobile
Mohamed Abdeen
Senior Software Engineer
www.MohamedAbdeen.com

2. Outline
Watch Windows 8 Phone
Mobility & Microsoft Journey
New WP8 Hardware
Windows Phone User Interface
Windows Phone
Features
Developers ?
Marketplace
To Start ….

3. Mobility & Microsoft Journey
Old
Windows
Mobile 6.5
Windows
Phone 7
Windows
Phone 7.5
Mango
Windows
Phone 7.5
Tango
Windows
Phone 8

7. New WP8 Hardware
• Beautiful new hardware from
Nokia, HTC, Samsung and more

8. Windows Phone 8 User
Interface

9. Windows Phone 8 User
Interface

10. Windows Phone 8 Features
• Offers a new user interface with its Metro design
• Cloud Storage (SkyDrive)
• Touch-Friendly user interface
• Social and productivity hubs
• Microsoft office
• Xbox live
• Bing Map
• Office

11. Windows Phone 8 Features (2)
• Kid's Corner
• Wallet
For more information about windows phone
8 features, check the following link
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-
to/wp8/start/whats-new-in-windows-phone

12. Developers ?
Windows
Phone SDK
Visual Studio
2012
Microsoft
Expression
Blend
C# / VB / C
/C++ and XAML
Windows 8 Pro edition or greater
for emulator

13. Developers ?
Write Same Game for windows 8 &
Windows Phone 8
Share common code, Win 8 – Win Phone
8
Share Many Components at the operating system
level

14. Windows Phone Developer
70-506: TS: Silverlight 4, Development
70-516: TS: Accessing Data with
Microsoft .NET Framework
70-599: PRO: Designing and Developing
Windows Phone Applications

15. Marketplace
• Registration fees
Developer
Account $100

16. To Start ….
Learn XAML
(~20 hr.)
Windows Phone SDK 8.0
(~40 hr.)

17. Conclusion
Windows Phone is a best user interface
mobile operating system
Don’t just flow with the waves of Android but
get what you want from a phone
As Microsoft said:
“Windows Phone – Put people first”