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Provides information on creating applications for the Windows 7 phone.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part I: So, You Want to Develop a Windows Phone App 7
Chapter 1: Developing an App for Windows Phone 7: An Overview 9
Chapter 2: A Windows Phone 7 Primer 15
Chapter 3: Getting into the Mobile Apps Environment for Windows Phone 7 33
Chapter 4: Doing the Legwork Before You Put Your Fingers to the Keyboard 41
Part II: Assembling the Tools You Need as a Developer 53
Chapter 5: Downloading the Tools You Need 55
Chapter 6: Building Your Mojo by Accessing the Microsoft Developer Portal 63
Chapter 7: Finding Your Direction with Silverlight 75
Part III: Practicing with Simple Sample Apps 87
Chapter 8: Breaking the Ice with Your First Application 89
Chapter 9: Creating a Simple Calculation App 107
Chapter 10: Cloudy Computing: Creating a Simple App to Go to the Internet 121
Chapter 11: I Can Hear You Now: A Simple Multimedia App 135
Part IV: Getting Fancy with APIs 149
Chapter 12: Pushing on the Accelerometer 151
Chapter 13: Directions to Location Services 159
Chapter 14: Getting Oriented to the Phone's Orientation 167
Chapter 15: Getting Updates with Push Notifi cation 177
Part V: Leveraging the Windows Phone Marketplace 187
Chapter 16: Working the Microsoft Approval Process 189
Chapter 17: Standing Out from the Crowd 209
Chapter 18: Going Global with Your App 215
Chapter 19: All This Fun and Getting Paid, Too! 223
Part VI: A Designer's Work Is Never Done: Updates and Customer Service 227
Chapter 20: Updating Your App 229
Chapter 21: Supporting Your End-Users 235
Part VII: The Part of Tens 241
Chapter 22: Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 243
Chapter 23: Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your App More Successful 247
Index 253
