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Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight
- By Shawn Wildermuth
- Published Dec 5, 2011 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Microsoft Windows Development Series series.
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 512
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-75213-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-75213-0
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Product Author Bios
Shawn Wildermuth, an eight-time Microsoft MVP, has been named by Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider and a Data Insider. He has spoken at leading development conferences including TechEd, MIX, VSLive, OreDev, SDC, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach, DevConnections, and DevReach. A 25-year veteran of the software development industry, Wildermuth has authored several books on .NET, including Pragmatic ADO.NET. He currently teaches Windows Phone 7.5 development workshops through his training company, AgiliTrain (agilitrain.com).
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
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A must have for the Windows Phone 7.5 Developer, By
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This review is from: Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft Windows Development Series) (Paperback)
This book this book starts with a great introduction to the windows phones. It introduces Metro design language, hardware specifications, input patterns, the application lifecycle, out of the box services, live tiles, and the marketplace. By the time you are done with the introduction you have a solid understanding of the windows phone context.The book continues with ten more chapters. They include Writing Your First Phone Application, XAML Overview, Controls, Designing for the Phone, Developing for the Phone, Phone Integration, Databases and Storage, Multitasking, Services, and The Marketplace. The author has a really nice writing style which makes the book an easy cover to cover read. It will also make a nice reference. There are a bunch of tables, screenshots, and diagrams that really help explain the topic at hand. The author does not go overboard with them like some books I have seen that use them for filler. One of the things I like... Read more
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great WP7 dev book,
This review is from: Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft Windows Development Series) (Paperback)
This book is wonderful. It is to the author's credit that this book is such an easy read, yet so full of useful information on the various aspects of Windows Phone programming. Anytime I had a question about something, I found the author addressed it shorty after. Reading the book in it's entirety gave me a good grasp on the scope of Windows Phone development and I will return to the book as a reference during my development because it mentions a lot of tips, caveats, & other details you need to know when developing for the phone.
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I'm a web developer by trade, so Windows Phone 7 development is new to me.I wanted a book that met the following criteria: 1) Provide a solid foundation of the core concepts 2) Focused on Silverlight, not XNA 3) Covers that latest version of the OS (7.5 as of this writing) Overall, the author provided just what I was looking for. The core concepts were covered thoroughly and Silverlight received top billing. Occasionally, the author uses a term or description that I feel is beyond the introductory context of the book. I'm certainly not opposed to this approach as long as the explanation is equal to the topic. Setting aside my small gripes, the easy going, conversational style of writing should appeal to many. A recommended read for individuals wanting a comprehensive introduction to Windows Phone 7 development. |
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Table of Contents
Figures xvii
Tables xxv
Foreword xxvii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
About the Author xxxiii
Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone 1
A Different Kind of Phone 1
Integrated Experiences 6
Phone Specifications 7
Input Patterns 9
Application Lifecycle 14
Driving Your Development with Services 15
Live Tiles 16
The Marketplace 18
Where Are We? 24
Chapter 2: Writing Your First Phone Application 25
Preparing Your Machine 25
Creating a New Project 27
Designing with Blend 36
Adding Code 43
Working with the Phone 55
Where Are We? 59
Chapter 3: XAML Overview 61
What Is XAML? 61
Visual Containers 66
Visual Grammar 70
Images 75
Transformations and Animations 77
XAML Styling 82
Where Are We? 87
Chapter 4: Controls 89
Controls in Silverlight 89
Phone-Specific Controls 99
Data Binding 105
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit 119
Where Are We? 138
Chapter 5: Designing for the Phone 139
The Third Screen 139
Deciding on an Application Paradigm 144
Microsoft Expression Blend 150
Blend Basics 159
Phone-Specific Design 176
Previewing Applications 185
Where Are We? 185
Chapter 6: Developing for the Phone 187
Application Lifecycle 187
The Phone Experience 200
Where Are We? 218
Chapter 7: Phone Integration 219
Using Vibration 219
Using Motion 220
Using Sound 226
Contacts and Appointments 233
Alarms and Reminders 240
Using Tasks 246
Media and Picture Hubs 266
Working with the Camera 280
The Clipboard API 287
Live Tiles 288
Location APIs 293
Where Are We? 303
Chapter 8: Databases and Storage 305
Storing Data 305
Isolated Storage 306
Local Databases 314
Where Are We? 335
Chapter 9: Multitasking 337
Multitasking 337
Background Agents 338
Background Transfer Service 360
Where Are We? 368
Chapter 10: Services 369
The Network Stack 370
Consuming JSON 376
Web Services 383
Consuming OData 387
Using Push Notifications 403
Where Are We? 429
Chapter 11: The Marketplace 431
What Is the Marketplace? 431
Submitting Your App 439
Modifying Your Application 453
Dealing with Failed Submissions 454
Using Ads in Your Apps 457
Where Are We? 458
Index 459
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