Windows Phone 7 Application Development For Dummies

by Hughes, Bill; Chakrabarty, Indrajit

• ISBN13: 9781118021750
• ISBN10: 1118021754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-09
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

What the book covers: This 4 color book will teach both novice and seasoned developers how to develop Windows Phone 7 applications for small and large scale use using several tools.Book includes the following coverage:Part I: Introduction to Windows Phone7Part II: Architectural Options for your ApplicationPart III: APIs, Libraries, and other Phone ResourcesPart V: The Windows Phone MarketplacePart IV: Support Tools and Systems for Developers

Author Biography

Bill Hughes is a former professor of marketing at Kellogg School of Management. The author of Windows Phone 7 For Dummies, Bill has worked with major corporations including IBM, Motorola, and Nextel.

Indrajit Chakrabarty is a leading software architect working with multinational clients on Microsoft .NET and VoIP projects.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: So, You Want to Develop a Windows Phone App.

Chapter 1: Developing an App for Windows Phone 7: An Overview.

Chapter 2: A Windows Phone 7 Primer.

Chapter 3: Getting into the Mobile Apps Environment for Windows Phone 7.

Chapter 4: Doing the Legwork Before You Put Your Fingers to the Keyboard.

Part II: Assembling the Tools You Need as a Developer.

Chapter 5: Downloading the Tools You Need.

Chapter 6: Building Your Mojo by Accessing the Microsoft Developer Portal.

Chapter 7: Finding Your Direction with Silverlight.

Part III: Practicing with Simple Sample Apps.

Chapter 8: Breaking the Ice with Your First Application.

Chapter 9: Creating a Simple Calculation App.

Chapter 10: Cloudy Computing: Creating a Simple App to Go to the Internet.

Chapter 11: I Can Hear You Now: A Simple Multimedia App.

Part IV: Getting Fancy with APIs.

Chapter 12: Pushing on the Accelerometer.

Chapter 13: Directions to Location Services.

Chapter 14: Getting Oriented to the Phone's Orientation.

Chapter 15: Getting Updates with Push Notification.

Part V: Leveraging the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Chapter 16: Working the Microsoft Approval Process.

Chapter 17: Standing Out from the Crowd.

Chapter 18: Going Global with Your App.

Chapter 19: All This Fun and Getting Paid, Too!

Part VI: A Designer’s Work Is Never Done: Updates and Customer Service.

Chapter 20: Updating Your App.

Chapter 21: Supporting Your End-Users.

Part VII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 22: Ten Features to Look for Down the Road.

Chapter 23: Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your App More Successful.

Index.