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Build for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Maximize your opportunity with these techniques to help deliver apps for both platforms. Learn how to design your apps to share the most code possible between your Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 projects.

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Watch and learn how to utilize the power of the Windows Phone platform from our Windows Phone experts.

	Introducing Unity for Windows Phone Development Learn how to get started building games for both Windows and Windows Phone using the Unity game developer ecosystem tools.
	Intro to Windows Phone game development Learn how to build games leveraging the same C/C++ source you leverage to deliver games on other platforms. This session introduces you to native C/C++ programming for building Windows Phone games.
	Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Leading mobile developers Andy Wigley and Rob Tiffany deliver a fast-paced, demo-rich online course for developers looking to leverage C#/XAML to build cool apps and games for Windows Phone 8.
	Windows Phone Design Bootcamp Learn how we measure every operating system screen against the Windows Phone design principles, along with a discussion of the larger Microsoft Design ecosystem, including Windows 8.
	What Windows Phone 8 means for developers Windows Phone’s Peter Torr goes in depth on how Windows Phone was moved to the Windows 8 shared core and what that means for developers.