Learning Windows Phone Programming: Building Apps with Silverlight and XNA Framework - Softcover

Kiriaty, Yochay; Rodriguez, Jaime

9781449388362: Learning Windows Phone Programming: Building Apps with Silverlight and XNA Framework

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ISBN 10: 1449388361 ISBN 13: 9781449388362

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA, 2013

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Get a head start on creating successful applications for Windows Phone 7. With this thorough introduction to Microsoft’s new mobile operating system and platform, you’ll learn step by step how to design, develop, test, package, and deploy great games and apps for WP7 -- whether or not you’re familiar with Silverlight and XNA.

Written by two of Microsoft’s Technical Evangelists for Windows Phone, this book shows you how to create compelling user experiences by integrating your applications with the phone’s hardware, such as its location capabilities, camera, and accelerometer. WP7 isn’t simply the next version of Windows Mobile. It’s a new generation of the OS designed to work with today’s sophisticated smartphones and Microsoft’s exceptional tools for interactive development -- and you can get started with it right now.

Create rich, interactive WP7 applications with Silverlight
Develop games for WP7 with Microsoft’s XNA development technology
Use the accelerometer to create fun, immersive applications
Build location-aware or data-centric applications
Keep application status up to date using push notifications
Add multitouch support to WP7 XNA and Silverlight applications
Learn how to monetize your WP7 games and applications
Use Visual Studio or the free Visual Studio Express edition to develop your apps

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About the Author

Yochay Kiriaty is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Windows 7. He has more than a decade of experience in Software development. He has written and taught academic Computer Science courses in several universities. He is the public face of the Windows 7 Developers Blog, has written a number of MSDN articles, and co-authored the Introduction to Windows 7 for Developers book. Jaime Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Windows 7 and Windows Presentation Foundation. Jaime spends most of his time advising Global 100 companies on adoption and architecture of client technologies, including WPF and Silverlight. He has trained thousands of developers on these emerging technologies, and has been recognized for his pragmatic developer insights.

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