Essential Windows Phone 7.5 - Shawn Wildermuth

Essential Windows Phone 7.5

Application Development with Silverlight
Buch | Softcover
512 Seiten
2011
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-321-75213-0 (ISBN)
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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

Shawn Wildermuth, a nine-time Microsoft MVP, has been named by Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider and a Data Insider. He speaks regularly at leading development conferences including TechEd, MIX, VSLive, OreDev, SDC, WinDev, 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).

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

Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 180 x 230 mm
Gewicht 813 g
Themenwelt Informatik Betriebssysteme / Server Windows
Informatik Software Entwicklung Mobile- / App-Entwicklung
Informatik Weitere Themen Smartphones / Tablets
ISBN-10 0-321-75213-9 / 0321752139
ISBN-13 978-0-321-75213-0 / 9780321752130
Zustand Neuware
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