Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to add an Application Bar with buttonsand menu items to your Windows Phone application using either XAML or managed (C#) code. You also learned basic guidelines for Application Bar development and wrote code to reactto Application Bar button and menu item events. The presence of an Application Bar is certainly expected for any mobile application today, and Visual Studio 2010 has made the process of adding one easy and straightforward.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the Web Browser control on Windows Phone. The Web Browser control helps you provide professional-looking applicationhelp files and aids in navigating the Internet. In addition, the Web Browser control hasbeen enhanced for the Windows Phone 7.5 release—it now supports HTML5 via InternetExplorer 9. You will be taking a look at the power of HTML5 in the next chapter. Finally, youwill also learn how to generate HTML content dynamically and show it in a web browser.