SDK for developing windows phone 8 apps

Question

Hi, I am keen to develop apps for windows phone 8 but I don't know where to get started. I already installed Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop with Update 2, but I dont get an option to create a new windows phone app project. Please help! 

Answer 1

Start here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/ff402551(v=vs.105).aspx

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Answer 2

Hi. Express versions of Visual Studio are specific to the type of app you want to develop. That means that you can't create WP apps with VS Express for Windows Desktop. You'll need to use VS Express for Windows Phone, which is a separate application.

The easiest thing you should do is install the Windows Phone 8 SDK, which will install you the required Visual Studio Express version if you don't have a full version of VS on your machine.

Yo can get the SDK here:

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/develop/download-phone-sdk

You can get additional info and languages here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471

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Answer 3

Hi Hugonne,

That's out of date. Windows Phone and Windows Store app development have converged and both use Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Update 2. Check out Matt's link or the Get set up section at the top of http://dev.windowsphone.com . For the direct link see Download Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update 2

Answer 4

What OS are you using? Windows phone 8 development requires Windows 8.x.