[Srinath Chary]

hey there there are some of the points i would like to know about this windows phone development platform. basically i have a poor knowledge on xaml or c#.
but i have a passion towards developing windows phone app development.. i can use help.. if anyone could help me you can add me as team member in visual studio online.
i hav even watched bob tabor's videos on msdn but i cant make it out

[jleebiker]

I'm in the same boat. I have alot of ideas and passion, just no time to get up to speed.
(What the heck is Azure anyway and how/why is it connected to WP dev?)

There are a ton of resources out there. Have you checked out Channel9?

Also, there are some resources in this forum.

[cuddl]

Azure is Microsoft's cloud service (like Google App Engine or Amazon AWS).
Developers use it to deploy server-side functionality (APIs, databases, etc) for use in their client applications.

[ShinraCorp]

Well if you wish there's the App Studio website that allows you to make WP8 apps but it is limited compare to learning C# + XAML

[k0de]

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.c...8-1-jump-start

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Buil...dows-Phone-8-1

http://dev.windows.com/en-us

https://www.nuget.org/

And if money is no object higher some help.

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=...4-00237de2db9e

http://www.telerik.com/

Enjoy and thank you for your interest in developing for Windows phone.