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Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook

You're reading from Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook All the recipes you need to start creating apps and making money.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849691161

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Windows Phone SDK

Concepts

Windows Mobile Programming

Authors (2):

Jonathan Marbutt

Robb Schiefer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Layout and Design FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Animation

3. Behaviors and Events

4. DataBinding 101/MVVM

5. Services, Data, and RSS

6. Location Services

7. Push Notifications to the Phone

8. Launchers and Choosers

9. Sensing with Sensors

10. Preparing Apps for the Marketplace

Index

Introduction

Launchers and Choosers allow developers to interface with the phone's functions through a very simple API. Microsoft has not yet given lower level access to the phone operating system or hardware. Microsoft recently announced that 1500 new APIs will be included in their new Mango update. This will open up many more opportunities for developers. Until then, Launchers and Choosers provide access to many of the common tasks you might need, such as:

Sending an e-mail
Launching the media player
Making a call
Sending a text
Opening the web browser
Opening the marketplace hub to your application for purchasing
Taking a picture
Saving a phone number

These are just a few of the capabilities that Launchers and Choosers make available to us.

In this chapter, we will use some of these to develop real-world applications.

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Authors (2)

Robb Schiefer

Robb Schiefer

Robb is a follower of Christ, husband to the perfect wife and father of two beautiful girls. Coincidentally, he is also a successful .NET software developer, which is a better qualification for writing a programming book. His development career started while working part time during college where he learned graphic design basics and built simple data-driven PHP websites. After college he worked for a small startup on a VB6 application for educators and learned .NET by jumping head first into building a complimentary ASP.NET site. Since then he has worked as a .NET developer for a market leading, privately held corporation with a global presence. This enterprise environment has provided many unique challenges and learning opportunities. He currently leads a development team in the company's latest development efforts, mentors many developers and plays a leading role in planning the company's .NET architecture. Prior to the announcement of Windows Phone 7 he had little experience with Silverlight but always wanted to learn it. WP7 provided the perfect opportunity to learn Silverlight in a defined space and on a smaller scale. He currently has several apps in the marketplace and has plans for many more (if he ever gets this book done).

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Jonathan Marbutt

Jonathan Marbutt

At the early age of ten Jonathan began to learn to program building simple games to amuse his friends and family. Twenty years later he still has passion for technology and development. Jonathan loves to share his passion with other developers by writing for his blog and various books as well as speaking at many user groups and technology conferences. Throughout the past three years Jonathans focus has primarily been on working with Silverlight and its most recent version for Windows Phone 7. Through this newest version for Windows Phone 7, Jonathan has been able to work on many high profile applications that are rated as some of the most downloaded applications. Jonathan is also currently the Vice President and Co-founder of WayCool Software, Inc. based in Birmingham, AL, which provides solutions for non-profit organizations. Jonathan also has been providing consulting services through his latest venture JM TechWare, Inc., where he helps provide both User Experience and architectural guidance on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF applications. In addition to development, Jonathan has co-authored Visual Basic 2010 and .Net 4 published by Wrox Press.

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