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Designing awesome XAML apps in Visual Studio and Blend for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8Jeffrey FermanProgram Manager3-006

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Code OrganizationDesigning and StylingPlatform Features

Designing awesome XAML apps

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FLIX DJ

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Our lens to explore Blend and Visual Studio

An awesome app

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model/portable library

Structure

web services

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Blend and Visual Studio

Blend is optimized for visual design tasks

Visual Studio is optimized for coding and debugging

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Tooling

BLEND

VISUAL STUDIOStylingPath-editingAnimationVisual StatesTransitions

Control creationLayoutProperty editingBasic dataView authoring

Code editingRefactoringDebuggingCode analysisProfiling

DESIGN TASKS CORE AUTHORING TASKS CODING TASKS

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Project Templates

Full screen

SnappedFilled

High Contrast Light Theme

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Demo

Designing and Styling

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Code OrganizationDesigning and StylingPlatform Features

Designing awesome XAML apps

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Questions?

Jeff [email protected]

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• Thursday 2:30pm – B33 McKinley – How To Leverage Your Code Across Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

• Friday 12:45pm – B92 Nexus/Normandy – Create Cross-Platform Apps Using Portable Class Libraries

Related Sessions

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