Programming Windows Phone7, Microsoft Silverlight Edition
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Programming Windows Phone7, Microsoft Silverlight Edition  (English, Paperback, Petzold Charles)

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  • Language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Dreamtech Press India Pvt. Ltd
  • Genre: Computers
  • ISBN: 9789350041895, 9789350041895
  • Pages: 792
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    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.

     How to Discover

    • Customize page navigation and layout
    • Know when to use code vs. XAML markup
    • Capture and embed bitmaps, balancing performance issues
    • Support multi-touch input-including tap, drag, flick, and pinch
    • Work with accelerometer and location services
    • Experiment with panoramic and pivot controls
    • Create effects using built-in or custom animations
    • Manage state, tombstoning, data-binding, and storage
    • Write your own templates and custom controls
    • Test-drive your app on Windows Phone Emulator

    About the Author
    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 .
    Index           
     

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