Beginning Windows Phone App Development

Eugene Chuvyrov

Language: English

Pages: 548

ISBN: 1430241349

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub

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.

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Marketplace In this example, you will prepare a package to submit your application to the Windows Phone Marketplace and learn the steps involved in successfully publishing an application to the Marketplace, beginning with the creation of a XAP file. Let's get started. Generating a XAP Submission File The submission file that the Windows Phone Marketplace requires is a XAP file that gets generated when the Windows Phone application is built. A XAP file is a zipped file containing all the

application that makes use of Microsoft’s Windows Azure service to store data to an SQL server in the cloud. Your application is now scalable and fault tolerant, and it can accommodate a large number of users. You learned how simple it is to create the service and the database in the Azure cloud, and how Microsoft Azure gives you the power to build an application without having to worry about creating your own complex IT infrastructure to support it. In Chapter 4, you will learn critical skills

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your application with a revised version that might contain new features or fixes to the bugs that users have reported. Sign in to your App Hub. Then, from the “my dashboard” menu, choose Windows Phone, and you will see a screen similar to Figure 5–10. From the App Highlights section, click the “Windows Phone apps” link, and you will see a published-app screen, as shown in Figure 5–11. Figure 5-11. Updating an application published to the Marketplace From the application list, click the

a set of application help files if the userclicks Help. If the About menu item is clicked, you could use the Web Browser control to show your company's web page or some basic information on how to get in touch with you. One final thing you need to examine before leaving this chapter is howto use XAML to link event handling code to XAML elements. Adding Event Handlers with XAML It is also possible, and in fact preferable, to write thenecessary codethat attaches (or glues) a certain event

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