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101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 1st edition by Nathan, Adam (2011) Paperback
Got a great idea for an app? There's a chapter for that!
Calling all Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Apps for Windows Phone 7 is a book series like no other—best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam's experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the
Everything you need to know about Silverlight
Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more
Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs
Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a quick jump grid, checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker
Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page
How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app, including controls that tilt-on-press, custom dialogs, and more
Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even non-development issues such as acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons
Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps, and imagine how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (perhaps making kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10's tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!
Calling all Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Apps for Windows Phone 7 is a book series like no other—best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam's experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the
Everything you need to know about Silverlight
Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more
Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs
Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a quick jump grid, checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker
Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page
How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app, including controls that tilt-on-press, custom dialogs, and more
Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even non-development issues such as acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons
Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps, and imagine how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (perhaps making kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10's tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!
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First published April 8, 2011
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July 26, 2012
Greate and awesome book! Very practical for Windows Phone developers. Also is helpfull for WPF(Silverlight) developers.
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