Develop Windows Mobile Apps with Windows 8 - Getting Started

If you have not still started using Windows 8, it's time for you to get windows 8 installed and start working with pretty colorful themes and apps.

Windows 8 Start Up Screen

 I shifted to Win 8 about a month back and I like it very much. If you are a Windows phone developer, I recommend you to use win 8 as the OS platform where you can install Visual Studio 2012 which has a very good emulator for windows mobile applications.

Once you have successfully installed Windows 8 in your machine, you have to instal Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone SDK 7.1 or Windows Phone SDK 8.
 

Visual Studio 2012 Start Up Screen

You can use the links below to download the above mentioned tools which are compulsory for Windows Phone Developing.


Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition for Windows 8 -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516.aspx

Windows Phone SDK (you can either use Windows Phone SDK 7.1 or Windows Phone SDK 8)
http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk


Get these two installed and ready to use. A mobile app developer or a newbie, you are welcome to stay tuned with this series of articles which will cover everything you need to know in order to create a fully functioning, attractive, user friendly and your own unique mobile application.