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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications

You're reading from   Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications Build your first Windows Phone application with Location and Maps with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687249
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. The Location-based World FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Location in Windows Phone 7.5 3. Using Maps in your Windows Phone App 4. Events App - PacktEvents 5. Location-aware News App — PacktNews

Building the PacktEvents app using Panorama control


Pivot and Panorama are two visually appealing controls available in Windows Phone 7.5. If you have used the Local Scout app on your Nokia Lumia 800, you should have an idea of how the Panorama control works. We will use the Panorama control to build our PacktEvents application and in the next chapter we will use the Pivot control.

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone has an option to select the Windows Phone Panorama Application template when choosing to create a New Project. However, we will not choose that path as the template comes with a lot of already built code and UI, whereas we want to learn to use the Panorama control from the ground up. So we start with the simple Windows Phone Application template and add the Panorama control by hand:

  1. 1. Fire up Visual Studio 2010 Express and create a New Project named PacktEvents, choosing the Windows Phone Application template.

  2. 2. From Solution Explorer, Add Reference to the Microsoft...

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