Once that’s in place, start with one of Ionic’s templates. If you’re building an Ionic app on a Windows development machine, you’ll find the templates in the Visual Studio gallery.

Developers surveyed by Ionic really love Visual Studio Code and like Visual Studio proper, but they're using those tools to mostly target non-Windows platforms.

Nick looks at the preview release of Blend for Visual Studio 2015 and demonstrates some tips and tricks that will save you time and help you build better looking Windows Phone applications.