Summary

In this hour, you learned about what makes Windows Phone 7 unique in the mobile landscape. You learned how Windows Phone 7 is consumer focused while still enabling you to manage both your personal and corporate life seamlessly from the same device. After that, you learned about the common hardware foundation and platform capabilities that underlay every Windows Phone 7 device, enabling you to build applications that can run on a wide variety of devices. Finally, you briefly learned about the Marketplace as the way to distribute applications to other people’s phones.

You then went on to learn about the four different aspects of the Windows Phone 7 architecture, what makes up each of those aspects, and how they impact the overall application development experience. After that, you learned about the Metro user-interface design language, including the inspirations and guiding principles of Metro. Next, you learned about the core aspects of the user-interface framework, such as the Start experience, Status Bar, Application Bar, and the different screen orientations available. From there, you learned about the text guidelines, including voice and tone, capitalization, and punctuation guidelines.