Today at BUILD we announced the availability of the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK.
- Announcing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform by Kevin Gallo - http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-new-windows-phone-8-developer-platform.aspx
- Windows Phone 8 SDK at the Download Center - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471
- Updated Windows Phone Dev Center - http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us
- What’s new in Windows Phone 8 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windowsphone/develop/jj206940(v=vs.105).aspx
- Visual Studio Blog – Introducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/10/30/introducing-windows-phone-sdk-8-0.aspx
- .Net Framework Blog – Announcing the release of the .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/10/30/introducing-windows-phone-sdk-8-0.aspx
- Windows Phone Blog – Meet Windows Phone 8 - http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/10/29/meet-windows-phone-8.aspx
- Windows Phone Dev Center Twitter Feed - https://twitter.com/wpdev
- Windows Phone Twitter Feed - https://twitter.com/windowsphone
Download Windows Phone 8 now
The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 has been released to the web and is immediately available for download via MSDN Subscriber Downloads, as well as via the Microsoft Download Center using the following links:
- Direct link: http://wpdev.ms/wpsdkdl
iOS Resources for Developers:
The iOS Resources page (www.interop.windows.com) is now live on dev center. This is a great starting place for iOS developers to begin their Windows app building.
The page currently has numerous articles, including:
- Installing Windows 8 and dev tools on Macs
- Getting started guide for iOS developers
- API mapping index preview which maps iOS APIs to Windows 8 APIs saving developers’ time when porting over apps
- An introduction to C# for Objective-C developers
- iPad design case study