Book description
Discover the core concepts essential for developing apps for Windows Phone
Silverlight and XNA provide you with a powerful development platform and key tools for programming Windows Phone 7 series applications. This book offers a foundation for using the tools required for Windows Phone 7 development, including Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition, the Windows Phone 7 Series SDK, and Silverlight. Experienced authors provide you with detailed coverage on developing accordingly for an application's lifetime, accessing cloud services, and developing notification services.
Explains how to use the most up-to-date tools and development platforms to create applications for the Windows Phone 7
Walks you through developing notification services and location services
Demonstrates ways to generate revenue by deploying your apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace
Details the steps for enabling trial periods for applications and providing updates and new versions of apps
If you're eager to get started developing applications for the Windows Phone 7, then this is the beginner guide for you.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CREDITS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BEGINNING WINDOWS® PHONE 7 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1: Introducing Windows Phone 7
- 2: Jaw-Dropping Apps with the Help of Silverlight
- 3: Spice Up Your App with Shapes, Colors, Brushes, and Transforms
- 4: Advanced User Interface Techniques: Styles, Templates, and the Visual State Manager
- 5: Isolated Storage, Page Navigation, and the Application Life Cycle
- 6: Interacting with the Hardware
- 7: Launchers, Choosers, and Advanced User Input
- 8: Windows Phone 7 Services and Cloud Services
- 9: Creating and Consuming Web Services
- 10: Web Services Push Notifications
- 11: XNA for Windows Phone 7
- 12: Microsoft Expression Blend
- 13: Using the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit and Creating Panoramic User Interfaces
- 14: Patterns, Frameworks, and Tests
- 15: Publishing Your Application
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APPENDIX: Solutions to Exercises
- CHAPTER 1 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 2 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 3 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 4 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 6 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 7 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 8 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 9 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 10 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 11 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 12 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 13 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 14 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER 15 EXERCISE SOLUTIONS
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Beginning Windows® Phone 7 Application Development: Building Windows® Phone Applications Using Silverlight® and XNA®
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9780470912331
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