INCLUDES COMPLETE CODE AND ASSETS FOR EACH APP IN THIS VOLUME!
Got a great idea for an app? There.s a chapter for that!
Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the
opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps is
a book series like no other.best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam
Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse,
and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online
access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full
of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam.s experience of
writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone
Marketplace.
Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps and how much
you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting
from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make
cosmetic changes to apps in this book (for example, creating kid-themed versions),
repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10.s tip
calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly
accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell
your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!
Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the following:
Everything you need to know about Silverlight
Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software
keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more
Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits,
such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs
Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the
platform, such as a checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color
picker
Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-
calibration page
How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app
Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even acquiring and creating sound
effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons
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