Beginning Windows Phone App Development [electronic resource] /
Lee, Henry.author.
Chuvyrov, Eugene.author.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community. Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you’ll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you'll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips. Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio,Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'll receive step-by-step instructions on packaging and selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who This Book Is For; What You Need to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Where to Find Sources for the Examples; Send Us Your Comments; Contacting the Authors; Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform; Windows Phone Overview; Windows Phone Hardware Specifications; Windows Phone Application Platform; Silverlight for Windows Phone; XNA for Windows Phone; Tools; Visual Studio; Expression Blend
Windows Phone EmulatorDocumentation and Support; Cloud Services; Metro Design; Application Development Life Cycle; Summary; Chapter 2: Building Windows Phone Applications; Preparing Your Development Machine; Building Your First Windows Phone Application; Creating a Windows Phone Project; Using the Windows Phone Silverlight Controls; Writing the Windows Phone Code; Running the Silverlight Windows Phone Application; Customizing the Windows Phone Application; Styling Your Application; Summary; Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Cloud Services As Data Stores
Introducing the MVVM PatternIntroducing Microsoft Azure and SQL Azure; Creating a Cloud Database; The Entity Framework; Creating an SQL Azure Database; Signing Up for SQL Azure; Connecting to the SQL Azure Project; Creating an SQL Azure Database; Testing the SQL Azure Database Connection; Creating a Database in SQL Azure; Using SQL Server Management Studio to Connect to the Cloud Database; Creating SQL Azure Database Tables; Creating a Cloud Service to Access the Cloud Database; Creating a Windows Azure Project; Generating an Object Model to Access the Cloud Database
Implementing a WCF Service to Access the SQL Azure DatabaseCoding the WCF Contract; Coding the Data Contract; Coding the Service; Coding the AddUser Method; Coding the AddNote Method; Coding the UpdateNote Method; Coding the DeleteNote Method; Coding the GetNotes Method; Coding the GetNote Method; Testing the Azure WCF NotepadService on Your Machine; Building a Phone Client to Access a Cloud Service; Creating a Windows Phone Project; Building the UI; Building UserRegistrationUserControl; Declaring the UI Resources; Adding Components for UserRegistrationUserControl
Building NoteListUserControlDeclaring the UI Resources; Adding Components for NoteListUserControl; Building MainPage; Declaring the UI Resources; Building the Main Page and Adding Components; Adding BoolToVisibilityConvert; Coding MainPage; Specifying the Namespaces; The Code Constructor; Coding the Save Button Event; Coding the View/Edit Button Event; Coding the Add New Button Event; Coding the Delete Button Event; Coding BoolToVisibilityConvert; Specifying the Namespaces and Applying the IValueConverter Interface; Implementing IValueConvert; Adding a Reference to NotepadService
Coding NotepadViewModel
Includes index.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community. Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you’ll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you'll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips. Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio,Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'll receive step-by-step instructions on packaging and selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Windows phone (Computer file)
Microsoft software.
Microsoft .NET Framework.
Application software.
Microsoft and .NET.
Computer Applications.