Afiq Here and this is my first update.
This blog post is about my attempt at setting up the windows phone 8 development environment nad my experience playing with the environment in visual studio. I will reference all the websites that I went to in my attempt to install the necessary files
1. First I installed this file as recommended by Raf. It wasn't much, It just provided me with some of these tile apps.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17284
2. Then I installed visual studio express 2012 from this website. This one took quite long to install and with some errors. The whole suite came with Blend for Visual Studio. It is so far running without errors but at one point during the installation it said that some features were missing. So I think it only partially installed correctly. I ran a repair install afterwards and I think it should be better now.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products
3. Seeking reference I then found this MSDN blog article that I used to verify all the steps that I achieved so far. I followed all the instructions and I find that this was the clearest and easiest set of instructions to follow. Everything went about without a hitch.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cdndevs/archive/2013/10/01/setting-up-your-windows-phone-development-environment-in-30-minutes-or-less.aspx
4. This is the development environment that I have so far. It is compliant with the picture in the file taken from the W8 guide given before the holidays given by Mr. Ling.
I watched this YouTube video that showed exactly the same platform and introduced some programming conventions that I had to be aware of for windows phone 8 development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blU9rBiVURM
My progress is now shalted because the emulator is having some problems. Apparently my brand new computer is missing the prerequisite of being windows 8 professional version but all the prerequisites for running the hyper-v virtualisation machine are all there.
Some of these basic prerequisites include
4 GB RAM
x64 architecture
Supports SLAT (Second Level Address Transition)
All of which I already satisfy the needs of.
Everytime I want to run the simulator an error occurs, unlike the YouTube video tutorial in which the Emulator is easy fast and accessible, mines does not want to function at all. This is what I get when I run the emulator.
My proposed solution ...
Go Pirate, RRrrrrrrr....
And run the same installation steps over again. I Think it will be faster on a clean slate.
Thats all from me,
Afiq Hamid,
6/11/2013
