Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development

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Using tools such as Visual Studio, Expression Blend and the device emulator, this book shows users how to develop for Windows Phone to design, build, test and deploy mobile applications. Working examples throughout the book and on the web site cover how to design and lay out a Windows Phone application, how to interact with the device and other services from your application and how to deploy and sell your applications.

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Nick Randolph has authored articles for MSDN Magazine (ANZedition), as well as Professional Visual Studio 2008 and Professional Visual Studio 2010. He is Solutions Architect at Built To Roam and builds rich mobile applications. Prior to this, Nick co-founded and acted as Development Manager for nsquared solutions, a software company. After graduating with combined Engineering (Information Technology)/Commerce degree, Nick was nominated as a Microsoft MVP for his work with the Perth .NET user group and his focus on mobile devices. He is still an active contributor in the device application development space via his blog at http://community.softteq.com/blogs/nick and via the Professional Visual Studio website, http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/. Nick has been invited to present at a variety of events including Tech Ed Australia, MEDC and Code camp. Christopher Fairbairn is a software developer with 10 years experience developing mobile applications. In this time he has developed custom solutions and commercial products across a wide range of platforms including Palm OS, Windows Mobile, iPhone and J2ME. Career highlights include developing an application in daily use by over 20,000 concurrent users. Christopher is active in the developer community and blogs at http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/. For his efforts in the Windows Mobile community Microsoft awared him a Microsoft MVP award. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: TAKING THE METRO WITH WINDOWS PHONE. Minimum Specifications. Metro Design Language. Start and Lock Screens. Hubs. Developer Landscape. Summary. CHAPTER 2: FREE TRANSPORT WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2010 AND EXPRESSION BLEND 4. Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. Expression Blend 4. Windows Phone Emulator. Summary. CHAPTER 3: DESIGNING LAYOUTS USING RED THREADS. Red Threads. Controls. Layout. Resources and Styles. Themes. Summary. CHAPTER 4: ADDING MOTION. Visual State Management. Behaviors. Panoramic and Pivot Controls. Summary. CHAPTER 5: ORIENTATION AND OVERLAYS. Device Orientation. Soft Input Panel (SIP). Application Bar. System Tray. Summary. CHAPTER 6: NAVIGATION. Page Layout and Architecture. Navigation. Background Processing. Summary. CHAPTER 7: APPLICATION TILES AND NOTIFICATION. Application Tile. Push Notifications. Summary. CHAPTER 8: TASKS. Windows Phone Tasks. Extras. Summary. CHAPTER 9: TOUCH INPUT. User Experience. Touch Events. Summary. CHAPTER 10: SHAKE, RATTLE, AND VIBRATE. Accelerometer. Vibration. Summary. CHAPTER 11: WHO SAID THAT? Media Playback. Audio Recording. Music and Video Hub. FM Tuner. Summary. CHAPTER 12: WHERE AM I? FINDING YOUR WAY. Geo-Location. Bing Maps. Summary. CHAPTER 13: CONNECTIVITY AND THE WEB. Connected Status. WebBrowser Control. MultiScaleImage. Authentication. Summary. CHAPTER 14: CONSUMING THE CLOUD. HTTP Request. WCF/ASMX Services. WCF Data Services. Summary. CHAPTER 15: DATA VISUALIZATION. Data Binding. Designing with Data. Summary. CHAPTER 16: STORING AND SYNCHRONIZING DATA. Isolated Storage. Data-Caching. Summary. CHAPTER 17: FRAMEWORKS. Managed Extensibility Framework. Application Composition. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework. Testing. CHAPTER 18: SECURITY. On the Device. Over the Wire. Summary. CHAPTER 19: GAMING WITH XNA. Getting Started. Rendering. Input. 3D Rendering. Summary. CHAPTER 20: WHERE TO NEXT? Device Debugging. Third-Party Components. Application Migration. User Interface Performance. External Systems. Publishing. Summary. INDEX.