Over the years whenever I wanted to learn a new technology, I have usually gone to Amazon and bought the relevant books or gone to Lynda.com or Pluralsight and got the training videos.
Since Windows 8 phones arrived back in October 2012 there have been ZERO books about developing the new Windows 8 phones on Amazon or anywhere else.
Amazon.com: window 8 phone development: Books
Nothing available until May 2013
As for training videos....forget it.
And please don't tell me to visit that tangled mess of an MSDN developer center, where it is assumed you have been developing Windows 7 phones from birth and just want to change to Windows 8 phones.
I would have thought that Microsoft would have put out a multitude of books about programming Windows phone 8 first steps after it's release in October 2012.
Instead we have nothing
Microsoft investors are asking why aren't people buying Windows 8 Machines, phones, tablets in great numbers? and the answer is that the Metro type apps are NOT as good as the desktop apps that preceded them. That's because the bulk of the older type desktop apps were mainly written in VB which is far more widely known than C#.
Another thing that irks me is why are Microsoft concentrating on C# when we all have huge legacy code bases in VB. Instead we are enthusiastically told by MS that you can "program in your favorite language C#, C++, VB, HTML" to write Windows 8 programs. Yeah right as long as it is C#. Nothing much for VB programmers. Why throw all that easily convertible legacy code away, and start from almost scratch again? I'm afraid it will be years before there are enough programmers fluent in C# (the favored language) to produce the apps that will make Microsoft Windows 8 phones popular with the consumer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
Meanwhile No developers means no apps. No Apps means no sales of WP8 phones.
Since Windows 8 phones arrived back in October 2012 there have been ZERO books about developing the new Windows 8 phones on Amazon or anywhere else.
Amazon.com: window 8 phone development: Books
Nothing available until May 2013
As for training videos....forget it.
And please don't tell me to visit that tangled mess of an MSDN developer center, where it is assumed you have been developing Windows 7 phones from birth and just want to change to Windows 8 phones.
I would have thought that Microsoft would have put out a multitude of books about programming Windows phone 8 first steps after it's release in October 2012.
Instead we have nothing
Microsoft investors are asking why aren't people buying Windows 8 Machines, phones, tablets in great numbers? and the answer is that the Metro type apps are NOT as good as the desktop apps that preceded them. That's because the bulk of the older type desktop apps were mainly written in VB which is far more widely known than C#.
Another thing that irks me is why are Microsoft concentrating on C# when we all have huge legacy code bases in VB. Instead we are enthusiastically told by MS that you can "program in your favorite language C#, C++, VB, HTML" to write Windows 8 programs. Yeah right as long as it is C#. Nothing much for VB programmers. Why throw all that easily convertible legacy code away, and start from almost scratch again? I'm afraid it will be years before there are enough programmers fluent in C# (the favored language) to produce the apps that will make Microsoft Windows 8 phones popular with the consumer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
Meanwhile No developers means no apps. No Apps means no sales of WP8 phones.