Beginning Windows Phone App Development by Lee, Henry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents at a Glance Contents About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform

Windows Phone Overview Windows Phone Hardware Specifications Windows Phone Application Platform

Silverlight for Windows Phone XNA for Windows Phone Tools Cloud Services Metro Design

Application Development Life Cycle Summary

Chapter 2: Building Windows Phone Applications

Preparing Your Development Machine Building Your First Windows Phone Application

Creating a Windows Phone Project Using the Windows Phone Silverlight Controls Writing the Windows Phone Code Running the Silverlight Windows Phone Application Customizing the Windows Phone Application Styling Your Application

Summary

Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Cloud Services As Data Stores

Introducing the MVVM Pattern Introducing Microsoft Azure and SQL Azure Creating a Cloud Database

The Entity Framework Creating an SQL Azure Database Creating a Database in SQL Azure

Creating a Cloud Service to Access the Cloud Database

Creating a Windows Azure Project Generating an Object Model to Access the Cloud Database Implementing a WCF Service to Access the SQL Azure Database

Building a Phone Client to Access a Cloud Service

Creating a Windows Phone Project Building the UI Coding MainPage Coding BoolToVisibilityConvert Adding a Reference to NotepadService Coding NotepadViewModel Testing the Application Against NotepadService Deployed Locally Deploying the Service to Windows Azure Testing the Notepad Application Against the NotepadService Azure Service

Summary

Chapter 4: Catching and Debugging Errors

Debugging Application Exceptions

Debugging Page Load Exceptions Debugging a Web Service Exception Testing the Application

Registering a Windows Phone Device for Debugging Handling Device Exceptions

Creating the CatchDeviceExceptionDemo Project Building the User Interface Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Summary

Chapter 5: Packaging, Publishing, and Managing Applications

Windows Phone Application Publishing Life Cycle Windows Phone Application Certification Requirements

Application Policies Content Policies Application Submission Validation Requirements Application Certification Requirements

Submitting Your First Windows Phone Application to theWindows Phone Marketplace

Packaging the Application Submitting the Application Updating Your Application Finding Your Application in the Marketplace

Summary

Chapter 6: Working with the Accelerometer

Understanding Orientation and Movement

Calculating Distance Calculating Pitch, Roll, and Yaw

Introducing SDK Support for Accelerometers Retrieving Accelerometer Data

Creating the CaptureAccelerometerData Project Building the UI Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Using Accelerometer Data to Move a Ball

Creating the MoveBall Project Building the UI Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Summary

Chapter 7: Application Bar

Introducing the Application Bar Adding an Application Bar to a Windows Phone Application

Adding Images for Use with Application Bar Buttons Adding a Global Application Bar Using XAML Adding a Local Application Bar Using XAML Adding Menu Items Adding an Application Bar Using Managed Code

Wiring Up Events to an Application Bar

Adding Glue Code and a Worker Function to the Add Button Reacting to Add Button Events Reacting to Save Button Events Reacting to Menu Events Adding Event Handlers with XAML Using the ApplicationBar Class to Glue XAML and Managed Code

Summary

Chapter 8: The WebBrowser Control

Introducing the WebBrowser Control Adding a WebBrowser Control Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Web Content Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Local HTML Content Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Dynamic Content Saving Web Pages Locally Choosing Display and Security Settings Viewport

CSS Security

A Brief Introduction to HTML5 Features

HTML5 Features Testing HTML5 Features on Windows Phone

Summary

Chapter 9: Working with Controls and Themes

Introducing the Metro Design System

Windows Phone Chrome Screen Orientations

Themes on Windows Phone Devices

Applying a Theme Changing the Theme Detecting the Currently Selected Theme

Panorama and Pivot Controls

Using the Panorama Control Using the Pivot Control

Understanding Frame and Page Navigation

Creating a UI for the NavigationTest Project Adding Navigation Code Adding Code to Pass Parameters Between Pages

Adding Transition Effects

Creating a UI Downloading TiltEffect.cs and Applying Dependency Properties

Summary

Chapter 10: Integrating Applications with the Windows Phone OS

Introducing Windows Phone Launchers and Choosers

Launchers Choosers

Working with Launchers and Choosers

Creating the User Interface Coding Application Logic

Working with the Windows Phone Application Life Cycle

Observing Application Life Cycle Events Managing Application State Best Practices for Managing the Application Life Cycle on the Windows Phone OS

Integrating with Facebook

A Few Words about OAuth

Integrating into Windows Phone Hubs

Integrating Your Application with the Music and Video Hub Integration with SharePoint

Summary

Chapter 11: Creating Trial Applications

Understanding Trial and Full Modes

Using the IsTrial Method Using the Marketplace APIs

Building a Trial Application

Building the UI Connecting to a Web Service Adding Page-to-Page Navigation Verifying Trial and Full Modes Adding the Finishing Touches

Summary

Chapter 12: Internationalization

Understanding Internationalization Using Culture Settings with ToString to Display Dates, Times, and Text Using the .NET Culture Hierarchy to Ensure Culture Neutrality Storing and Retrieving Current Culture Settings Using Resource Files to Localize Content Localizing the Application Title and Tile

Creating an Application Resource File Using Resource DLL from the Windows Phone Project Creating Culture-Specific Resource DLLs

Summary

Chapter 13: Isolated Storage

Working with Isolated Directory Storage

Creating the IsolatedStorageStoreImageDemo Project Coding the UI Coding the Application

Working with Isolated Storage Settings

Creating a New Project Building the Application UI (XAML) Coding Application Behavior (C#)

Summary

Chapter 14: Using Location Services

Understanding Windows Phone Location Services Architecture Introducing the Windows Phone Location Service and Mapping APIs Simulating the Location Service

Creating the GeoCoordinateWatcherDemo Project Coding the UI Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Using GeoCoordinateWatcher and the Bing Maps Control to Track Your Movements

Registering with the Bing Maps Service Portal and Installing the Bing Maps SDK Creating the BingMapDemo Project Coding the UI Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Plotting an Address on a Bing Maps Map and Working with the Bing Maps Service

Creating the AddressPlottingDemo Application Adding a Service Reference to the Bing Maps GeoCodeService Coding the UI Coding the Application Testing the Finished Application

Summary

Chapter 15: Media

Introducing MediaElement Working with Video

Creating the MediaPlayerDemo Project Building the UI Coding the Application

Adding Sounds to an Application

Creating the RobotSoundDemo Project Building the UI Coding the Application

Summary

Chapter 16: Working with the Camera and Photos

Introducing Windows Phone Photo Features

Using a Chooser to Take Photos Using a Chooser to Open Photos Saving Photos to the Phone

Integrating Your Application with Windows Phone

Using the Apps Link to Launch an Application Using Share to Upload PhotoCapture Snapshots to TwitPic

Manipulating Live Photo Feeds Summary

Chapter 17: Push Notifications

Understanding Push Notifications

Toast Notifications Tile Notifications Raw Notifications

Introducing the Push Notifications Architecture

The Life Cycle of a Notification The Push Notification Framework

Implementing Toast Notifications

Creating a Client Application Creating an Application to Send Notifications

Implementing Tile Notifications

Creating a Client Application Creating an Application to Send Notifications

Implementing Raw Notifications

Creating a Client Application Creating an Application to Send Notifications Testing Delivery of Raw Notifications

Implementing a Cloud Service to Track Push Notifications

Creating a WCF Service to Track Notification Recipients Modifying the Client to Call the WCF Service Verifying Automated Push Notification Subscriber Tracking

Using Push Notifications in the Real World Setting Up Secure Web Services for Push Notifications Summary

Chapter 18: Reactive Extensions for .NET

Introducing Reactive Programming Rx.NET Subscription Pipeline Implementing the Observer Pattern with Rx.NET

Creating a Windows Phone Project Adding Code to Create and Read Observable Collections

Using Rx.NET Event Handling to Search for Flickr Photographs

Creating a Windows Phone Project Adding a User Interface Adding Logic to Search Flickr for Images Enhancing a Flickr Search with Throttling Adding an Animation that Plays as Flickr Images Load

Rx.NET Design Guidelines

Consider Drawing a Marble Diagram Consider Passing a Specific Scheduler to Concurrency-Introducing Operators

Using Rx.NET with Web Services to Retrieve Weather Data Asynchronously

Creating a Windows Phone Project Creating a User Interface Adding Logic to Get Weather Information

Handling Errors in Rx.NET Handling Data-Connection Issues with Rx.NET Revising WeatherRx to Manage Slow Data Connections Handling Multiple Concurrent Requests with Rx.NET Summary

Chapter 19: Security

Understanding Application Security

The Windows Phone Marketplace Submitting an Application to the Windows Phone Marketplace Sandboxed Execution and the Execution Manager Private Application Distribution Options

Implementing Network Security

Securing Connections with SSL Testing and Opening an SSL Connection Creating a Self-Signed Certificate Exporting a Self-Signed Certificate Installing a Self-Signed Certificate on Windows Phone

Implementing Data Security

Using HMACSHA1 and HMACHSHA256 Using Rfc2898DeriveBytes and AES to Encrypt Data Information Rights Management

Understanding Device Physical Security Meeting Certification Requirements

Applications Must Implement MSIL Code Applications Must Not Implement Any Security-Critical Code Capability List

Obfuscating Your Application Code Summary

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