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Silverlight and XNA provide you with a powerful development platform and key tools for programming Windows Phone 7 series applications. This book offers a foundation for using the tools required for Windows Phone 7 development, including Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition, the Windows Phone 7 Series SDK, and Silverlight. Experienced authors provide you with detailed coverage on developing accordingly for an application’s lifetime, accessing cloud services, and developing notification services.
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The recent explosion of application development on mobile devices paves the way for Microsoft`s entry into this new mobile development world; Windows Phone 7 gives developers the opportunity to jump to a platform with common hardware specification that utilizes their existing .NET programming skills. This book orients readers to a powerful development platform as well as tools for programming Windows Phone 7 Series applications. Primers on Silverlight, how to utilize Silverlight to create Windows Phone 7 applications helps the reader to quickly learn the Windows Phone 7 platform. Developers are introduced to cloud services (XBOX Live, Bing, Windows Live), location services (GPS, Wi-Fi, Cell Tower Location), the Metro theme and generating revenue. The book briefly covers the XNA programming SDK and how to create games or enhance existing applications on the Windows Phone. The developer toolset needed to create programs for Windows Phone 7 is freely available making it a very low cost and easy phone to develop for. ISBN - 9788126531448
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Pages : 600
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