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Beginning Windows Phone App Development
By: Henry Lee; Eugene Chuvyrov
Publisher: Apress
Pub. Date: February 29, 2012
Print ISBN-10: 1-4302-4134-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-4134-8
Pages in Print Edition: 546
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Overview
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community.
Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you'll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you'll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips.
Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio,Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'll receive step-by-step instructions on packaging and selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.
What you'll learn
How to create effective networked applications
How to leverage your phone's GPS capabilities from within your application
How to interact with the phone's built-in functionalities (camera, contacts, maps, accelerometer, video and web browser, to name but a few)
How to construct highly graphical and responsive user interfaces quickly and easily using these features
How to package and distribute your applications for both personal distribution and commercial sale via the Windows Phone Marketplace
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone interested in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7.5 platform. You might be an existing .NET developer looking for a new creative angle, or perhaps an iPhone or Android developer looking for a new opportunity. If you have an understanding of basic .NET coding practices, then this book is for you.
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"I wanted a book on Windows Phone, not Azure" - by Sundraw on 24-SEP-2012
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I wanted to quickly figure out how to create a Windows Phone 7 app. Unfortunately, right after creating a traditional "hello world" app, the book goes in chapter 3 into using Azure web services, creating a database, a WCF web service etc. Although all this stuff might be useful for some people, it is certainly not WP7-specific and could find a better place in an appendix, not in one of the introductory chapters.
Also, the book would benefit from proofreading.
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