Excellent training video series has just been published in Channel 9 as part of the Jump Start into apps building on Windows Phone 8 devices.
The expert instructors are Andy Wigley (English!) and Rob Tiffany and they take you through almost 30 hours of training material.
What’s a “Jump Start” Course?
Training specifically designed for experienced technologists whose jobs demand they know how to best leverage new, emerging Microsoft technologies. These advanced courses assume a certain level of expertise and domain knowledge, so they move quickly and cover topics in a fashion that enables teams to effectively map new skills to real-world situations.
List of Video's:
1a: Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development - Part 1
1b: Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development - Part 2
2: Designing Windows Phone Apps
3: Building Windows Phone Apps
4: Files and Storage
5: Windows Phone Application Lifecycle
6: Background Agents
7: Tiles and Lock Screen Notifications
8: Push Notifications
9: Using Phone Resources
10: App to App Communication
11: Network Communication including OData
12: Proximity Sensors and Bluetooth
13: Speech Input
14: Maps and Location
15: Wallet Support
16: In App Purchasing
17: The Windows Phone Store
18: Enterprise App Architecture
19: Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Cross Platform Develop
20: Mobile Web (with Teresa Greiner)