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August 15, 2013
Windows Phone Developer Blog

Inside Windows Phone 61 – Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 – The Basics

This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft.

– Larry


One of the exciting elements about building an app for Windows Phone is that a properly designed and architected Windows Phone app is already well on its way to becoming a Windows Store app. This week on Inside Windows Phone, we talk about some simple strategies a developer can use to leverage .NET technology to build apps for two platforms, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, sharing a maximum amount of code. Included in this discussion is a single, open source project that pulls and displays stock quotes for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.

For more information, see the full Channel 9 post: IWP 61 | Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 – The Basics.