Windows Phone 7 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Emanuele Garofalo

Overview

Developers are racing to discover how to develop for Windows Phone 7—and there is no quicker resource to help you get up to speed than Windows Phone 7 Recipes. This book covers all aspects of development, configuration, testing, and distribution, with detailed code samples and rapid walkthroughs to support you every step of the way.

You'll find recipes that unlock advanced user interface development, data storage and retrieval, integration with cloud services, adding media and location-based services, and working with Silverlight and Expression Blend. Learn to use sensors such as the camera, GPS, and accelerometer to build cutting-edge applications. Manage the new way to interact with applications using the gestures library both from the XNA Framework library and the Silverlight Windows Phone Toolkit library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430233718
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/27/2011
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

A prolific writer on cutting-edge technologies, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati has contributed to more than a dozen books on .NET, C#, Visual Basic, and ASP.NET. He is a .NET Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and lives in Milan, Italy. You can read his blog at Ferracchiati.com.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications
• Windows Phone 7 Execution Model
• The User Interface
• The User Interface With Expression Blend
• Gestures
• Sensors
• Media Management
• Isolated Storage
• In the Cloud
• Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications