Programming Windows Phone7, Microsoft Silverlight Edition (English, Paperback, Petzold Charles)
Bring your app ideas to life-with guidance from a Windows programming legend Get started building your own apps and utilities for Windows Phone 7-expertly guided by award-winning author Charles Petzold. Focusing on Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and the C# language, you'll learn how to extend your existing skills to this new mobile platform-mastering the core tools and techniques you need to get productive quickly. As always, Charles brings a unique combination of pragmatism and inspiration to his instruction-along with a wealth of hands-on examples.
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Charles Petzold has been writing about programming for Windows-based operating systems for 24 years. A Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and a Windows pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, currently in its fifth edition and one of the best-known programming books of all time; the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and more than a dozen other books.
Table Of Contents
Part I
The Basics 1 Hello, Windows Phone 7
2 Getting Oriented
3 An Introduction to Touch
4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures.
5 Sensors and Services
6 Issues in Application Architecture
Part II
Silverlight
7 XAML Power and Limitations
8 Elements and Properties
9 The Intricacies of Layout
10 The App Bar and Controls
11 Dependency Properties
12 Data Bindings
13 Vector Graphics
14 Raster Graphics
15 Animations 16 The Two Templates
17 Items Controls
18 Pivot and Panorama .
Introduction
Part I The Basics
1 Hello, Windows Phone 7
Targeting Windows Phone 7
The Hardware Chassis
Sensors and Services
File I New I Project
A First Silverlight Phone Program
The Standard Silverlight Files
Color Themes
Points and Pixels
The XAP is a ZIP
An XNA Program for the Phone
2 Getting Oriented
Silverlight and Dynamic Layout
Orientation Events
XNA Orientation
Simple Clocks (Very Simple Clocks)
3 An Introduction to Touch
Low-Level Touch Handling in XNA
The XNA Gesture Interface
Low-Level Touch Events in Silverlight
The Manipulation Events
Routed Events
Some Odd Behavior?
4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures
XNA Texture Drawing
The Silverlight Image Element
Images Via the Web
Image and ImageSource
Loading Local Bitmaps from Code
Capturing from the Camera
The Phone's Photo Library
5 Sensors and Services
Accelerometer
A Simple Bubble Level
Geographic Location
Using a Map Service
6 Issues in Application Architecture
Basic Navigation
Passing Data to Pages
Sharing Data Among Pages
Retaining Data across Instances
The Multitasking Ideal
Task Switching on the Phone
Page State
Isolated Storage
Xna Tombstoning and Settings
Testing and Experimentation
Part II Silverlight
7 XAML Power and Limitations
A TextBlock in Code
Property Inheritance
Property-Element Syntax
Colors and Brushes
Content and Content Properties
The Resources Collection
Sharing Brushes
x:Key and x:Name
An Introduction to Styles
Style Inheritance
Themes
Gradient Accents
8 Elements and Properties
Basic Shapes
Transforms
Animating at the Speed of Video
Handling Manipulation Events
The Border Element
TextBlock Properties and Inline
More on Images
Playing Movies
Modes of Opacity
Non-Tiled Tile Brushes
9 The Intricacies of Layout
The Single-Cell Grid
The StackPanel Stack
Text Concatenation with StackF Nested Panels
Visibility and Layout
Two Scroll Viewer Applications
The Mechanism of Layout
Inside the Panel
A Single-Cell Grid Clone
A Custom Vertical StackPanel
The Retro Canvas
Canvas and Zlndex
The Canvas and Touch
The Mighty Grid
10 The App Bar and Controls
ApplicationBar Icons
Jot and Application Settings
Jot and Touch
Jot and the ApplicationBar
Elements and Controls
RangeBase and Slider
The Basic Button
The Concept of Content
Theme Styles and Precedence
The Button Hierarchy
Toggling a Stopwatch
Buttons and Styles
TextBox and Keyboard Input
11 Dependency Properties
The Problem Illustrated
The Dependency Property Difference
Deriving from UserControl
A New Type of Toggle
Panels with Properties
Attached Properties
12 Data Bindings
Source and Target
Target and Mode
Binding Converters
Relative Source
The "this" Source
Notification Mechanisms
A Simple Binding Server
Setting the DataContext
Simple Decision Making
Converters with Properties
Give and Take
TextBox Binding Updates
13 Vector Graphics
The Shapes Library
Canvas and Grid
Overlapping and ZIndex
Polylines and Custom Curves
Caps, Joins, and Dashes
Polygon and Fill
The Stretch Property
Dynamic Polygons
The Path Element
Geometries and Transforms
Grouping Geometries
The Versatile Path Geometry
The ArcSegment
Bezier Curves
The Path Markup Syntax
How This Chapter Was Created
14 Raster Graphics
The Bitmap Class Hierarchy
WriteableBitmap and UlElement
The Pixel Bits
Vector Graphics on a Bitmap
Images and Tombstoning
Saving to the Picture Library
Becoming a Photo Extras Application
15 Animations
Frame-Based vs. Time-Based
Animation Targets
Click and Spin
Some Variations
XAML- Based Animations
A Cautionary Tale
Key Frame Animations
Trigger on Loaded
Animating Attached Properties (or Not)
Splines and Key Frames
The Bouncing Ball Problem
The Easing Functions
Animating Perspective Transforms
Animations and Property Precedence
16 The Two Templates
ContentControl and DataTemplate
Examining the Visual Tree
ControlTemplate Basics
The Visual State Manager
Sharing and Reusing Styles and Templates
Custom Controls in a Library
Variations on the Slider
The Ever-Handy Thumb
Custom Controls
17 Items Controls
Items Controls and Visual Trees
Customizing Item Displays
ListBox Selection
Binding to ItemsSource
Databases and Business Objects
Fun with DataTemplates
Sorting Changing the Panel
The DataTemplate Bar Chart
A Card File Metaphor
18 Pivot and Panorama
Compare and Contrast
Music by Composer
The XNA Connection
The XNA Music Classes: MediaLibrary
Displaying the Albums
The XNA Music Classes: MediaPlayer .
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