Level: Intermediate

Ben Dewey

MVP

Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division

Tallan, Inc

In this talk, Ben Dewey will show various techniques to optimize the use of Portable Class Libraries and maximize the code that is shared between a sample Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 application.

Building native apps offers a superior experience on most platforms. While sharing web services code is an easy win, developers often struggle to share client side code between different native apps. In this talk, Ben Dewey will show various techniques to optimize the use of Portable Class Libraries and maximize the code that is shared between a sample Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 application.

You will learn:

• Numerous techniques for sharing code between apps
• How to share code between projects using the new Portable Class Library
• How to share code between projects using linked files
• Tips and Tricks to leverage when Portable Class Libraries don't work