Year: 2011 (December)
Author: Shawn Wildermuth
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 978-0-321-75213-0
Series: Microsoft. NET Development Series
Language: English
Format: PDF / EPUB
pages 512
Essential Windows Phone 7.5 is the definitive guide to creating powerful, visually compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 platform. Nine-time Microsoft MVP Shawn Wildermuth draws on his extensive experience teaching Silverlight and Windows Phone development, helping you to get started fast and master techniques that lead to truly outstanding apps.
After introducing the latest version of Windows Phone, Shawn Wildermuth dives directly into the essentials, emphasizing best-practice examples and illustrating with code. You’ll build a complete application from start to finish, then build on your skills with increasingly sophisticated techniques.
From planning and design through application delivery, Shawn Wildermuth guides you through the entire mobile development lifecycle, showing how to make the most of Windows Phone 7.5’s most important new capabilities. Whether you’re a .NET or Silverlight developer going mobile, or an experienced mobile developer moving to Windows Phone, Essential Windows Phone 7.5 delivers all the skills you’ll need.
Coverage includes
-Leveraging Microsoft’s breakthrough Metro design language
-Using phone features such as email, calling, search, Web browsing, and the camera
-Designing the look and feel of your user interface with XAML
-Interacting with users via Panorama, Pivot, and other controls
-Mastering the new Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.5
-Choosing the right application paradigm and functionality for your specific app
-Incorporating touch, vibration, motion, and sound into your interfaces
-Working with Windows Phone 7.5’s unique hubs and tiles
-Building location-based services that work with the phone’s GPS
-Storing data in Isolated Storage or Windows Phone 7.5’s database support
-Multitasking reliably, without compromising performance
-Integrating external data via REST, conventional Web services, and push notifications
-Preparing your application for the Windows Phone Marketplace
Figures xvii
Tables xxv
Foreword xxvii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
About the Author xxxiii
Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone
A Different Kind of Phone
Integrated Experiences
Phone Specifications
Input Patterns
Application Lifecycle
Driving Your Development with Services
Live Tiles
The Marketplace
Where Are We?
Chapter 2: Writing Your First Phone Application
Preparing Your Machine
Creating a New Project
Designing with Blend
Adding Code
Working with the Phone
Where Are We?
Chapter 3: XAML Overview
What Is XAML?
Visual Containers
Visual Grammar
Images
Transformations and Animations
XAML Styling
Where Are We?
Chapter 4: Controls
Controls in Silverlight
Phone-Specific Controls
Data Binding
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
Where Are We?
Chapter 5: Designing for the Phone
The Third Screen
Deciding on an Application Paradigm
Microsoft Expression Blend
Blend Basics
Phone-Specific Design
Previewing Applications
Where Are We?
Chapter 6: Developing for the Phone
Application Lifecycle
The Phone Experience
Where Are We?
Chapter 7: Phone Integration
Using Vibration
Using Motion
Using Sound
Contacts and Appointments
Alarms and Reminders
Using Tasks
Media and Picture Hubs
Working with the Camera
The Clipboard API
Live Tiles
Location APIs
Where Are We?
Chapter 8: Databases and Storage
Storing Data
Isolated Storage
Local Databases
Where Are We?
Chapter 9: Multitasking
Multitasking
Background Agents
Background Transfer Service
Where Are We?
Chapter 10: Services
The Network Stack
Consuming JSON
Web Services
Consuming OData
Using Push Notifications
Where Are We?
Chapter 11: The Marketplace
What Is the Marketplace?
Submitting Your App
Modifying Your Application
Dealing with Failed Submissions
Using Ads in Your Apps
Where Are We?
Index
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