VSH10 Building Your First Universal Application for Windows Phone and Windows Store

11/20/2014

11:00am - 12:15pm

Level: Introductory

Brian Peek

Senior Technical Evangelist

Microsoft

We will cover what can and can't be shared, and how to best structure your project for maximum re-use.

Universal Apps enable developers to build apps for Windows Store and Windows Phone simultaneously while sharing code, controls, and other assets between them. In this session, you will learn how Universal Apps work as we build a simple app from start to finish using this new project type. We will cover what can and can't be shared, and how to best structure your project for maximum re-use.

You will learn:

  • Introduction to Universal Apps
  • Sharing code between projects
  • Maximizing code re-use between Windows Store and Windows Phone