When you're done, click the checkmark button at the upper right of the page. The list below will update with the latest blog posts from the feed. What is our favorite blog? WPCentral, of course! Put the address for the RSS feed into the textbox and click the refresh button. On this page we need to click our RSSDataSource, so that we can edit it and add the address for our favorite RSS feed. And while we're at it, let's name the data source RSSDataSource.
Since we're creating a blog reader that will get its data from an RSS feed, let's go ahead and click on the RSS button to add an RSS feed. Let's call it Stories, since we'll be getting stories from a blog. Go ahead and click the Add Section menu item.įirst, name the section. Since I'm just creating a very simple app to show a single blog's RSS feed, I'm not going to be needing a menu.
On this page, you're going to hover over the Add Section button, and you're going to add a section. Yes, this method of app creation even gives you an About page. The description will appear on the About page of your app. Go ahead and click the button to create an empty app.įill in the title of your up-and-coming app, and fill in a description. Or, if you're doing what I'm doing here, you can create an empty app. On this page, you can select from several different templates, depending on what kind of app you want to create. If you're reading this, you're probably like me, and don't have any yet! This will bring you to the page with the list of your apps. Once logged in, click the Start Building button - the big white one on the left. You'll need to log in with your Microsoft Account. And as simple as this app will be, you can do it in less than ten minutes - I'm sure of it.įirst go to Windows Phone App Studio | Microsoft. Even better, you can do this completely in your web browser without even knowing the first thing about how to write software. Microsoft has created App Studio, a program that lets you create your own app, either using predefined templates, or starting from a blank slate. Have you ever just wished that your favorite blog site had a Windows Phone app, so that you could access it quickly, and read the latest blog posts? Well, I'm going to show you just how simple it can be.
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