Learn Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 - [Part-3]

It is pretty simple to develop Windows Phone 7 application. It is a cool new mobile platform from Microsoft. Developers use Silverlight, XNA Framework and of course .NET compact framework for developing Windows Phone 7 applications. Programs for Windows Phone 7 are written in .NET managed code using C#.NET.
In this part I am going to describe how to get familiar with windows phone development using very traditional program that is "Hello World".

Let us open Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone; here I have VS 2010 Ultimate. Now go to file menu and File -> New -> Project and then you see a list of project templates of Silverlight for windows phone 7.

1. Windows Phone Application
2. Windows Phone Databound Application
3. Windows Phone Class Library
4. Windows Phone Panorama Application
5. Windows Phone Pivot application

Now here we have to choose Windows Phone Application Template then enter the project name of the application i.e. (WP_Hello_World) and press OK Button.


Now we are able to view default XAML page in IDE, we can say that it's a form just like in a windows mobile application development SDK (I know windows mobile developer got it).here we go…

Here I am going to develop a very simple UI for hello world application. Now we add few controls by dragging and dropping from the Toolbox (TextBlock, TextBox and Button) to the XAML page. After this the XAML will be automatically generated.Now the UI is ready.

Now just double click on the button control, the following code will be generated in the XAML.CS file which is also known as code behind.

private void btnClickMe_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  MessageBox.Show("Hello " + txtName.Text + "!", this.Name, MessageBoxButton.OK);
}