What's new with Windows Phone Apps!
summary
The talk compares Silverlight 8.1 Windows Phone apps with the new Universal Windows app model, detailing concrete feature differences and migration considerations. It lists Silverlight 8.1 gains (SD card I/O, sharing/picker contracts, WNS push) but remaining limitations (no background audio or continuous GPS), and explains Universal apps (C#/XAML or JavaScript/HTML) use a shared project + APPX manifest, require Visual Studio with the 8.1 SDK/emulators, produce APPX bundles and enable roaming, geofencing and BLE. Migration topics covered include fast-resume behavior changes, breaking-change fixes, package versioning differences (XAP vs APPX) and testing on 512 MB devices.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and news
- 10:18Silverlight 8.1 migration
- 26:21Universal Windows Apps demo
- 35:50Multiplatform development
- 47:18Performance optimizations
- 1:00:19Distribution and updates
- 1:18:12Developer events and resources
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