Saturday 9-21 from 10:30-4:30 we are having a Windows Phone 8 workshop. Please register quickly at the following link as we are holding spots for MIS majors thru the 15th then it will become open enrollment. If you have a friend you want to bring who is not a MIS major, they can enroll after the 15th. We will be doing a Windows Phone Infohub using a Template helper. The primary goal of this workshop will be to get people set up with Windows Phone Developer accounts and to help them with submitting their first Windows Phone app to the store. The Windows Phone Store is different from the Windows 8 store – different developer accounts, different process, different testers, different expectations.
https://ualr-wp8.eventbrite.com/
If you are bringing your own laptop, it must have 4GB of RAM and be capable of Hyper-V. If your laptop came with Windows 8 and does not have a Celeron processor, you should be fine. If your machine is less than 1 1/2 years old and had Windows 7 on it originally and has 4GB of RAM, it should support Win Phone development. If it is older than that, there is still a chance it will support Win Phone. Download the Windows Phone SDK https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk This is the latest and greatest Phone SDK as of 8/1. It requires Visual Studio 2012 and a minimum of update 2 although I would recommend going to Dreamspark Premium and downloading Update 3.
I also need to ask you guys for a favor… even if you already have Visual Studio 2012 installed, would you please log in to your new Dreamspark Premium account and download one of the Visual Studio 2012 (Professional, Premium, or Ultimate)? One of Brad Jensen’s (and his boss and his boss’ boss) metrics is the number of downloads of Visual Studio and the updates to it from Dreamspark Premium. We do our best every year to help them meet their numbers and this is a simple thing we can do for them. You don’t have to reinstall it, just download it. You do need to install Update 3 and then the Phone SDK. If your machine doesn’t support Phone, you still should install Update 3.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Janet L. Bailey, PhD
President Southwest Decision Sciences
Assoc Professor
Department of Business Information Systems
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
jlbailey@ualr.edu | drjanetbailey@live.com
Windows 8 Mobile Development 