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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

Exploring the Eventful.com API


Eventful.com provides an extensive concerts and events API via api.eventful.com, which allows third-party developers to:

  • Integrate the rich and unique events information into their applications

  • Create and edit new events

  • Add images and comments

  • Create, edit, or modify a venue

  • Search for venues and events

  • Get user information: User-created events, venues, and events attended by a user

  • Add and edit artist information

  • Get a list of event categories

  • Search for demands and get the details of a demand

The demand feature is a unique concept from Eventful, which can be used by consumers to demand that their favorite artists come to their cities and perform a gig.

The events content is tagged in the following ways:

  • Events are tied to a location with latitude and longitude and mapped to a venue(s) in a city

  • Events are tied to artists

  • Events are categorized into specific pre-defined categories, such as concerts, jazz, dance, and so on

  • Event details include start date, end date,...

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