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Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA Paperback – 5 Nov. 2010

by Nick Randolph (Author), Christopher Fairbairn (Author)
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A one–of–a–kind book on Windows Phone 7 development

While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void and shares the specifics of building phone applications and games. You ll learn how to get started with designing, building, testing, and deploying mobile applications for Windows Phone 7. Working examples used throughout the book cover how to design and layout a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

  • Fills the void in the market for an instructional book on developing applications for Windows Phone 7
  • Offers an overview of Windows Phone and discusses the necessary tools
  • Explains how to work with multiview applications
  • Addresses tool bars, pickers, table views, navigation controllers, application setting, and user defaults
  • Reviews drawing with XNA, using the camera, and understanding basic data persistence

Explore the exciting possibilties of Windows Phone 7 development with this invaluable reference.

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  1. Print length
    624 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wrox
  4. Publication date
    5 Nov. 2010
  5. Dimensions
    18.8 x 3.15 x 23.62 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0470891661
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0470891667
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veresman
5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the Key books in my library.
Reviewed in the United States on 29 June 2011
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I have found the book to be a really good overview of the whole Windows Phone 7. I continually refer to it during development. It touches all areas of the phone and gives you enough background to be able to search specific areas on the net. Having said that you can use a lot of the examples as they appear in the book. I have found learning Silverlight/Expression Blend/WCF etc to be fairly hard going. The knowledge I have learn't from other books certainly helped me understand the details of this book. This is not a beginners book which was exactly what I was looking for. What I found was that after searching around the net for the best professional techniques that this book has already documented a lot of the best practices for you. In re-reading the book I have found many fine/important details that I can now use. I particularily found the Data Chaching (Chapter 16) to be helpful. This enables database apps to run off-line and then sync when the network connection comes back. I have not found any other data caching as good so far. There is not a lot on XNA but it covers the basics and I just use another specialized book for XNA. Overall this has made my professional phone development a lot easier.
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Chris Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info on how to do it right
Reviewed in the United States on 31 March 2011
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This book has been an invaluable reference as I've worked on my own WP7 applications, particularly when I want to make sure that I'm doing something the best and most appropriate way. In particular this includes the explanation of the patterns that should be used when using Silverlight's databinding model, and how you can take advantage of that with Expression Blends design time views. A lot of things through this book has taken a lot of the pain out of WP7 development for me by explaining why things should be done certain ways to avoid particular issues further down the track. High recommended for anyone who wants to do things properly.
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anon
4.0 out of 5 stars good book for WP7
Reviewed in the United States on 4 September 2011
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I purchased this because I plan to build applications for WP7 and in the last months I have been working with WPF and XAML so I thought that it would be easy to learn it. The book is not for beginners if you want to learn silverlight and xaml while learning to build apps for WP7 might be hard to get it at the beginning. The book covers a lot of topics like the metro aproach, input, orientation, tiles, notification, audio, media playback, navigation,etc .

The chapters 15 and 16 are very good these chapters are about data and how to use the data binding, designing taking into account the data, the isolated storage, data caching, and other things related.

What is pretty short is the coverage about XNA...you will need another book for that.

If you are looking to build applcations using Silverlight this is a good book.
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Kasper Jeppe Jeppesen
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great
Reviewed in the United States on 19 November 2010
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Overall I'm satisfied with this book. It does give a good, although somewhat superficial, look at the key areas you need to know to develop windows phone 7 applications. However, having XNA as part of the title seems rather misleading for something that only gets one short 25 page chapter in a book that's really about silverlight development.
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