Introduction

These guides,

are written to be a cheat-sheet/primer to transition you as quickly to writing your first app and learning 'on the job'

provide original content plus 'curated' links to the enormous body of documentation from Microsoft, Nokia etc.

lead towards Microsoft's 'How to create a local database app with MVVM for Windows Phone' walkthrough

are for people who know a bit about object-orientated programming but have not programmed much in a Microsoft or Windows Phone environment

are written for people with the limited capabilities of the free developer tools

make many decisions for you to get you up to speed as quickly as possible. Later when you are more confident you may decide a different route

only cover 2D Silverlight apps. For writing 3D apps, see XNA development on Windows Phone

are now available offline

Contents

Now you should be able to fully understand the 'How to create a local database app with MVVM for Windows Phone' walkthrough

Where from here?

At this point you should be ready to write your app and learn 'on the job'. Streamlined howtos for particular programming tasks (e.g. using GPS) are found at the following sites,

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