Beginning Windows Phone 7 application development : building Windows Phone applications using Silverlight and XNA / Nick Lecrenski, Karli Watson, Robert Fonseca-Ensor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lecrenski, Nick G.

Contributor:

Watson, Karli.

Fonseca-Ensor, Robert.

Series:

Wrox beginning guides Beginning Windows Phone 7 application development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Windows phone (Computer file).

Silverlight (Electronic resource).

Microsoft XNA (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Beginning Windows Phone Seven application development

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Discover the core concepts essential for developing apps for Windows Phone Silverlight and XNA provide you with a powerful development platform and key tools for programming Windows Phone 7 series applications. This book offers a foundation for using the tools required for Windows Phone 7 development, including Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition, the Windows Phone 7 Series SDK, and Silverlight. Experienced authors provide you with detailed coverage on developing accordingly for an application's lifetime, accessing cloud services, and developing notification services.Explains h

Contents:

Beginning Windows® Phone 7 Application Development: Building Windows® Phone Applications Using Silverlight® and XNA®; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone 7; The Windows Mobile Platform; Here Comes the iPhone; Android Arrives; A Microsoft Reboot; The Windows Phone 7 Platform; Windows Phone 7 Hardware Specifications; Windows Phone 7 Architecture; Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development; Navigating through Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition; Summary; Chapter 2: Jaw-Dropping Apps with the Help of Silverlight; Requirements for Windows Phone 7 Development

What Is Silverlight?What Is XAML?; The Anatomy of a Windows Phone Application; Developing with Silverlight Controls; Common Control Properties; Layout Controls; Programming with Silverlight; Interactive Controls; Summary; Chapter 3: Spice up Your App with Shapes, Colors, Brushes, and Transforms; Working with Shapes; The Ellipse Control; The Rectangle Control; The Line Control; The Polygon Control; The Polyline Control; Working with Colors; Using Brushes; The SolidColorBrush Object; The LinearGradientBrush Object; The RadialGradientBrush Object; The ImageBrush Object; Applying Transforms

The RotateTransform ObjectThe ScaleTransform Object; The SkewTransform Control; The TranslateTransform Object; The TransformGroup Object; Summary; Chapter 4: Advanced User Interface Techniques: Styles, Templates, and the Visual State Manager; Understanding Control Styles; Application Styles; BasedOn Styles; Control Templates; The Visual State Manager; Expression Blend; User Controls; Custom Controls; Summary; Chapter 5: Isolated Storage, Page Navigation, and the Application Life Cycle; Isolated Storage; How Windows Phone 7 Data Storage Works; Getting Started Using Isolated Storage

The IsolatedStorageSettings ObjectThe IsolatedStorageFile Object; Using the Navigation Framework; Getting to Know the Navigation Framework; The NavigationService Class; Query Strings; Navigation Events; Page State; The Application Life Cycle; The Launching State; The Running State; The Closing State; The Deactivating State; The Running State; The Closing State; The Deactivating State; The Activating State; The Activating State; Summary; Summary; Chapter 6: Interacting with the Hardware; What's Different about Mobile Device Application Development?; The Windows Phone 7 Hardware Specification

Altering Device OrientationConfiguring Supported Orientations; Responding to Orientation Changes; Device Orientation Best Practices; Understanding the Back Button; Taking Advantage of the Back Button's Functionality; Responding to the Back Button; Vibration; Tuning In to the FM Radio; Accelerating with the Accelerometer; The AccelerometerSensor Sensor; Simulating Accelerometer Data; Summary; Chapter 7: Launchers, Choosers, and Advanced User Input; Using the Application Bar; Adding an Application Bar; Application Bar Best Practices; Using Launchers and Choosers; An Overview of Launchers

An Overview of Choosers

Notes:

"Wrox programmer to programmer."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613126412

9781118096307

1118096304

9781283126410

1283126419

9781118096284

1118096282

OCLC:

779851567