Installing Visual Studio & Getting Started

To develop apps for the Windows Phone, you must have either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012..
You also need the Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) and its updates.

So in just 5 easy steps..you can start making your first Windows Phone Apps:


Step 1. Install Visual Studio 2010

Step 2. Install Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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Step 3. For XNA use (games & more functions)
Install Games for Windows Marketplace Client:
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Step 4. Install Windows Phone SDK 7.1
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Step 5. Install Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update
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Getting Started



Open Visual Studio and select New Project:

Select Visual C#, Silverlight for Windows Phone, and finally Windows Phone Application

Give your app a name (this one is called PhoneApp1 and give it a location.
Once that is done, this is what you are presented with:

In my next post I will go through the process of making a basic text app.
Hopefully this post was useful to you in getting set up with Visual Studio.
Any questions or problems, feel free to leave a comment.