How did you get started developing for Windows Phone?

Question

Programming

Good day! I want to try programming under WP 8.1.
At the moment I am writing in C# - WinForms, ASP.NET, MVC, and I have no experience in mobile development for any platform.
I rummaged through Ozone, and then in the internet - somehow I didn’t see books on development for 8.1 ...
Are there people who now write or know how to write under WP? Gentlemen, how did you start, can you advise some sources of information for the first entry, in order to master the first general steps and be able to further analyze specific things yourself?
PS I found here a similar question a year ago - What literature is better to start learning programming under Windows Phone 8? Is the statement still relevant that books are tight, and you need to first master WPF with MVVM?

Answer 1

I am currently developing a metro application.
I started simply - I took it and sat down for development. I began to raise information on the Internet on this and related issues. There is very little information and even more examples with non-standard cases. Collected bit by bit.
Yes. If you want to write xaml + C# behavior then you need to know WPF-MVVM. It is also possible to write on a bunch of HTML + WinJS (essentially "the same eggs only in profile"), but this approach did not sink into my soul.
(Replenishment of the dictionary of profanity in the development process is provided.)
Good luck!!!

Answer 2

WPF + MVVM - optional. I developed sites on mvts and dot no. I came up with what kind of application I want to write - I sat down and wrote almost without problems in a month.
By the way, in most cases xaml is much better than html+css+js

Answer 3

I write in HTML + JS, all system style and controls are contained in the WinJS library ( try.buildwinjs.com/). That is, I can write for WP 8.1 + Windows 8.1, it's easy to change WinJS to the latest one - and voila, my application has an updated system style under Win10, but it is compatible with 8.1
As for performance - write declaratively, use all native controls - and you will be happy ! No worse than in C#.