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Beginning Windows Phone App Development

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Henry Lee Eugene Chuvyrov

Beginning Windows Phone App Development Copyright © 2012 by Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. ISBN 978-1-4302-4134-8 ISBN 978-1-4302-4135-5 (eBook) Trademarked names, logos, and images may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, logo, or image we use the names, logos, and images only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. President and Publisher: Paul Manning Lead Editor: Gary Schwartz Technical Reviewer: Robert Garrett Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Louise Corrigan, Morgan Ertel, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Robert Hutchinson, Michelle Lowman, James Markham, Matthew Moodie, Jeff Olson, Jeffrey Pepper, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Gwenan Spearing, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh Coordinating Editor: Tracy Brown Copy Editors: Damon Larson, Tiffany Taylor Compositor: Bytheway Publishing Services Indexer: SPi Global Artist: SPi Global Cover Designer: Anna Ishchenko Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York, 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax (201) 348-4505, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please e-mail [email protected], or visit www.apress.com. Apress and friends of ED books may be purchased in bulk for academic, corporate, or promotional use. eBook versions and licenses are also available for most titles. For more information, reference our Special Bulk Sales–eBook Licensing web page at www.apress.com/bulk-sales. Any source code or other supplementary materials referenced by the author in this text is available to readers at www.apress.com. For detailed information about how to locate your book’s source code, go to www.apress .com/source-code/.

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Contents at a Glance „ About the Authors.............................................................................................. xviii „ About the Technical Reviewer ............................................................................. xix „ Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ xx „ Introduction ......................................................................................................... xxi „ Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform ...........1 „ Chapter 2: Building Windows Phone Applications................................................15 „ Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Cloud Services As Data Stores ......................................................................................................37 „ Chapter 4: Catching and Debugging Errors ........................................................103 „ Chapter 5: Packaging, Publishing, and Managing Applications .........................129 „ Chapter 6: Working with the Accelerometer.......................................................151 „ Chapter 7: Application Bar..................................................................................171 „ Chapter 8: The WebBrowser Control...................................................................193 „ Chapter 9: Working with Controls and Themes ...................................................213 „ Chapter 10: Integrating Applications with the Windows Phone OS ....................235 „ Chapter 11: Creating Trial Applications..............................................................265 „ Chapter 12: Internationalization .........................................................................287 „ Chapter 13: Isolated Storage ..............................................................................311 „ Chapter 14: Using Location Services ..................................................................329 „ Chapter 15: Media...............................................................................................357

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„ Chapter 16: Working with the Camera and Photos.............................................379 „ Chapter 17: Push Notifications ...........................................................................405 „ Chapter 18: Reactive Extensions for .NET...........................................................445 „ Chapter 19: Security ...........................................................................................479 „ Index ...................................................................................................................513

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Contents „ About the Authors.............................................................................................. xviii „ About the Technical Reviewer ............................................................................. xix „ Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ xx „ Introduction ......................................................................................................... xxi „ Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform ...........1 Windows Phone Overview .................................................................................................4 Windows Phone Hardware Specifications .........................................................................4 Windows Phone Application Platform................................................................................6 Silverlight for Windows Phone.................................................................................................................. 6 XNA for Windows Phone ........................................................................................................................... 7 Tools ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Cloud Services........................................................................................................................................ 11 Metro Design .......................................................................................................................................... 11

Application Development Life Cycle ................................................................................12 Summary .........................................................................................................................13 „ Chapter 2: Building Windows Phone Applications................................................15 Preparing Your Development Machine ............................................................................15 Building Your First Windows Phone Application ..............................................................15 Creating a Windows Phone Project ........................................................................................................ 16 Using the Windows Phone Silverlight Controls....................................................................................... 18 Writing the Windows Phone Code .......................................................................................................... 22 vi

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Running the Silverlight Windows Phone Application.............................................................................. 23 Customizing the Windows Phone Application ........................................................................................ 25 Styling Your Application ......................................................................................................................... 28

Summary .........................................................................................................................34 „ Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 7 Applications Using Cloud Services As Data Stores ..........................................................................................................37 Introducing the MVVM Pattern.........................................................................................38 Introducing Microsoft Azure and SQL Azure ....................................................................39 Creating a Cloud Database ..............................................................................................39 The Entity Framework ............................................................................................................................ 40 Creating an SQL Azure Database............................................................................................................ 40 Creating a Database in SQL Azure.......................................................................................................... 51

Creating a Cloud Service to Access the Cloud Database.................................................55 Creating a Windows Azure Project ......................................................................................................... 56 Generating an Object Model to Access the Cloud Database................................................................... 57 Implementing a WCF Service to Access the SQL Azure Database.......................................................... 63

Building a Phone Client to Access a Cloud Service .........................................................70 Creating a Windows Phone Project ........................................................................................................ 70 Building the UI ........................................................................................................................................ 71 Coding MainPage.................................................................................................................................... 77 Coding BoolToVisibilityConvert ............................................................................................................... 79 Adding a Reference to NotepadService.................................................................................................. 81 Coding NotepadViewModel..................................................................................................................... 82 Testing the Application Against NotepadService Deployed Locally........................................................ 89 Deploying the Service to Windows Azure............................................................................................... 90 Testing the Notepad Application Against the NotepadService Azure Service ........................................ 99

Summary .......................................................................................................................100

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„ Chapter 4: Catching and Debugging Errors ........................................................103 Debugging Application Exceptions ................................................................................103 Debugging Page Load Exceptions ........................................................................................................ 104 Debugging a Web Service Exception.................................................................................................... 109 Testing the Application......................................................................................................................... 115

Registering a Windows Phone Device for Debugging....................................................115 Handling Device Exceptions ..........................................................................................121 Creating the CatchDeviceExceptionDemo Project ................................................................................ 122 Building the User Interface ................................................................................................................... 123 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 125 Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 127

Summary .......................................................................................................................127 „ Chapter 5: Packaging, Publishing, and Managing Applications .........................129 Windows Phone Application Publishing Life Cycle ........................................................129 Windows Phone Application Certification Requirements...............................................131 Application Policies .............................................................................................................................. 131 Content Policies.................................................................................................................................... 133 Application Submission Validation Requirements ................................................................................ 133 Application Certification Requirements ................................................................................................ 135

Submitting Your First Windows Phone Application to the Windows Phone Marketplace136 Packaging the Application .................................................................................................................... 136 Submitting the Application ................................................................................................................... 138 Updating Your Application .................................................................................................................... 146 Finding Your Application in the Marketplace........................................................................................ 148

Summary .......................................................................................................................149 „ Chapter 6: Working with the Accelerometer.......................................................151 Understanding Orientation and Movement ....................................................................151 viii

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Calculating Distance............................................................................................................................. 154 Calculating Pitch, Roll, and Yaw........................................................................................................... 154

Introducing SDK Support for Accelerometers................................................................155 Retrieving Accelerometer Data......................................................................................156 Creating the CaptureAccelerometerData Project.................................................................................. 157 Building the UI ...................................................................................................................................... 158 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 160 Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 163

Using Accelerometer Data to Move a Ball .....................................................................163 Creating the MoveBall Project .............................................................................................................. 164 Building the UI ...................................................................................................................................... 165 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 167 Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 169

Summary .......................................................................................................................169 „ Chapter 7: Application Bar..................................................................................171 Introducing the Application Bar .....................................................................................173 Adding an Application Bar to a Windows Phone Application .........................................175 Adding Images for Use with Application Bar Buttons ........................................................................... 175 Adding a Global Application Bar Using XAML ....................................................................................... 177 Adding a Local Application Bar Using XAML......................................................................................... 178 Adding Menu Items............................................................................................................................... 179 Adding an Application Bar Using Managed Code ................................................................................. 181

Wiring Up Events to an Application Bar .........................................................................183 Adding Glue Code and a Worker Function to the Add Button ............................................................... 183 Reacting to Add Button Events ............................................................................................................. 184 Reacting to Save Button Events ........................................................................................................... 188 Reacting to Menu Events...................................................................................................................... 188 Adding Event Handlers with XAML ....................................................................................................... 189 ix

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Using the ApplicationBar Class to Glue XAML and Managed Code....................................................... 190

Summary .......................................................................................................................191 „ Chapter 8: The WebBrowser Control...................................................................193 Introducing the WebBrowser Control.............................................................................193 Adding a WebBrowser Control.......................................................................................194 Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Web Content...................................................195 Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Local HTML Content .......................................198 Using a WebBrowser Control to Display Dynamic Content ............................................200 Saving Web Pages Locally .............................................................................................201 Choosing Display and Security Settings ........................................................................204 Viewport.........................................................................................................................204 CSS ....................................................................................................................................................... 204 Security ................................................................................................................................................ 205

A Brief Introduction to HTML5 Features.........................................................................206 HTML5 Features ................................................................................................................................... 206 Testing HTML5 Features on Windows Phone ....................................................................................... 208

Summary .......................................................................................................................212 „ Chapter 9: Working with Controls and Themes ...................................................213 Introducing the Metro Design System ...........................................................................213 Windows Phone Chrome....................................................................................................................... 214 Screen Orientations .............................................................................................................................. 216

Themes on Windows Phone Devices .............................................................................216 Applying a Theme................................................................................................................................. 217 Changing the Theme............................................................................................................................. 219 Detecting the Currently Selected Theme.............................................................................................. 221

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Panorama and Pivot Controls ........................................................................................222 Using the Panorama Control................................................................................................................. 223 Using the Pivot Control ......................................................................................................................... 226

Understanding Frame and Page Navigation ..................................................................228 Creating a UI for the NavigationTest Project......................................................................................... 229 Adding Navigation Code ....................................................................................................................... 230 Adding Code to Pass Parameters Between Pages................................................................................ 230

Adding Transition Effects...............................................................................................231 Creating a UI ......................................................................................................................................... 231 Downloading TiltEffect.cs and Applying Dependency Properties ......................................................... 233

Summary .......................................................................................................................234 „ Chapter 10: Integrating Applications with the Windows Phone OS ....................235 Introducing Windows Phone Launchers and Choosers..................................................235 Launchers............................................................................................................................................. 236 Choosers............................................................................................................................................... 237

Working with Launchers and Choosers .........................................................................238 Creating the User Interface................................................................................................................... 238 Coding Application Logic ...................................................................................................................... 238

Working with the Windows Phone Application Life Cycle..............................................241 Observing Application Life Cycle Events .............................................................................................. 242 Managing Application State.................................................................................................................. 246 Best Practices for Managing the Application Life Cycle on the Windows Phone OS ............................ 252

Integrating with Facebook .............................................................................................252 A Few Words about OAuth.................................................................................................................... 253

Integrating into Windows Phone Hubs...........................................................................259 Integrating Your Application with the Music and Video Hub ................................................................ 260 Integration with SharePoint.................................................................................................................. 263

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Summary .......................................................................................................................263 „ Chapter 11: Creating Trial Applications..............................................................265 Understanding Trial and Full Modes ..............................................................................265 Using the IsTrial Method....................................................................................................................... 267 Using the Marketplace APIs.................................................................................................................. 269

Building a Trial Application............................................................................................271 Building the UI ...................................................................................................................................... 272 Connecting to a Web Service................................................................................................................ 277 Adding Page-to-Page Navigation.......................................................................................................... 279 Verifying Trial and Full Modes .............................................................................................................. 281 Adding the Finishing Touches .............................................................................................................. 282

Summary .......................................................................................................................284 „ Chapter 12: Internationalization .........................................................................287 Understanding Internationalization................................................................................287 Using Culture Settings with ToString to Display Dates, Times, and Text.......................289 Using the .NET Culture Hierarchy to Ensure Culture Neutrality .....................................292 Storing and Retrieving Current Culture Settings............................................................293 Using Resource Files to Localize Content......................................................................298 Localizing the Application Title and Tile ........................................................................305 Creating an Application Resource File.................................................................................................. 305 Using Resource DLL from the Windows Phone Project ........................................................................ 308 Creating Culture-Specific Resource DLLs............................................................................................. 309

Summary .......................................................................................................................310 „ Chapter 13: Isolated Storage ..............................................................................311 Working with Isolated Directory Storage .......................................................................312 Creating the IsolatedStorageStoreImageDemo Project ........................................................................ 313 Coding the UI ........................................................................................................................................ 314 xii

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Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 316

Working with Isolated Storage Settings ........................................................................320 Creating a New Project......................................................................................................................... 321 Building the Application UI (XAML) ....................................................................................................... 322 Coding Application Behavior (C#) ......................................................................................................... 324

Summary .......................................................................................................................327 „ Chapter 14: Using Location Services ..................................................................329 Understanding Windows Phone Location ......................................................................329 Services Architecture ....................................................................................................329 Introducing the Windows Phone Location Service ........................................................330 and Mapping APIs..........................................................................................................330 Simulating the Location Service ....................................................................................330 Creating the GeoCoordinateWatcherDemo Project............................................................................... 331 Coding the UI ........................................................................................................................................ 332 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 334 Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 336

Using GeoCoordinateWatcher and the Bing Maps Control to Track Your Movements...337 Registering with the Bing Maps Service Portal and Installing the Bing Maps SDK .............................. 338 Creating the BingMapDemo Project ..................................................................................................... 339 Coding the UI ........................................................................................................................................ 340 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 343 Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 347

Plotting an Address on a Bing Maps Map and Working with the Bing Maps Service ....347 Creating the AddressPlottingDemo Application.................................................................................... 348 Adding a Service Reference to the Bing Maps GeoCodeService .......................................................... 348 Coding the UI ........................................................................................................................................ 350 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 352

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Testing the Finished Application .......................................................................................................... 354

Summary .......................................................................................................................354 „ Chapter 15: Media...............................................................................................357 Introducing MediaElement.............................................................................................357 Working with Video........................................................................................................358 Creating the MediaPlayerDemo Project................................................................................................ 359 Building the UI ...................................................................................................................................... 360 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 363

Adding Sounds to an Application...................................................................................370 Creating the RobotSoundDemo Project ................................................................................................ 371 Building the UI ...................................................................................................................................... 372 Coding the Application.......................................................................................................................... 375

Summary .......................................................................................................................377 „ Chapter 16: Working with the Camera and Photos.............................................379 Introducing Windows Phone Photo Features.................................................................379 Using a Chooser to Take Photos........................................................................................................... 381 Using a Chooser to Open Photos .......................................................................................................... 385 Saving Photos to the Phone.................................................................................................................. 386

Integrating Your Application with Windows Phone........................................................388 Using the Apps Link to Launch an Application ..................................................................................... 389 Using Share to Upload PhotoCapture Snapshots to TwitPic ................................................................. 391

Manipulating Live Photo Feeds......................................................................................398 Summary .......................................................................................................................404 „ Chapter 17: Push Notifications ...........................................................................405 Understanding Push Notifications .................................................................................405 Toast Notifications................................................................................................................................ 405 Tile Notifications................................................................................................................................... 406 xiv

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Raw Notifications ................................................................................................................................. 407

Introducing the Push Notifications Architecture ............................................................408 The Life Cycle of a Notification............................................................................................................. 409 The Push Notification Framework ........................................................................................................ 410

Implementing Toast Notifications..................................................................................411 Creating a Client Application ................................................................................................................ 413 Creating an Application to Send Notifications ...................................................................................... 418

Implementing Tile Notifications.....................................................................................424 Creating a Client Application ................................................................................................................ 425 Creating an Application to Send Notifications ...................................................................................... 425

Implementing Raw Notifications....................................................................................429 Creating a Client Application ................................................................................................................ 429 Creating an Application to Send Notifications ...................................................................................... 432 Testing Delivery of Raw Notifications................................................................................................... 433

Implementing a Cloud Service to Track Push Notifications...........................................434 Creating a WCF Service to Track Notification Recipients ..................................................................... 434 Modifying the Client to Call the WCF Service ....................................................................................... 439 Verifying Automated Push Notification Subscriber Tracking................................................................ 441

Using Push Notifications in the Real World....................................................................442 Setting Up Secure Web Services for Push Notifications................................................443 Summary .......................................................................................................................443 „ Chapter 18: Reactive Extensions for .NET...........................................................445 Introducing Reactive Programming ...............................................................................446 Rx.NET Subscription Pipeline.........................................................................................447 Implementing the Observer Pattern with Rx.NET ..........................................................448 Creating a Windows Phone Project ...................................................................................................... 448 Adding Code to Create and Read Observable Collections .................................................................... 449 xv

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Using Rx.NET Event Handling to Search for Flickr Photographs....................................452 Creating a Windows Phone Project ...................................................................................................... 452 Adding a User Interface ........................................................................................................................ 453 Adding Logic to Search Flickr for Images............................................................................................. 454 Enhancing a Flickr Search with Throttling............................................................................................ 455 Adding an Animation that Plays as Flickr Images Load........................................................................ 458

Rx.NET Design Guidelines..............................................................................................462 Consider Drawing a Marble Diagram.................................................................................................... 463 Consider Passing a Specific Scheduler to Concurrency-Introducing Operators................................... 463

Using Rx.NET with Web Services to Retrieve Weather Data Asynchronously................464 Creating a Windows Phone Project ...................................................................................................... 465 Creating a User Interface...................................................................................................................... 466 Adding Logic to Get Weather Information............................................................................................. 468

Handling Errors in Rx.NET..............................................................................................471 Handling Data-Connection Issues with Rx.NET .............................................................472 Revising WeatherRx to Manage Slow Data Connections ...............................................473 Handling Multiple Concurrent Requests with Rx.NET ....................................................475 Summary .......................................................................................................................478 „ Chapter 19: Security ...........................................................................................479 Understanding Application Security ..............................................................................479 The Windows Phone Marketplace ........................................................................................................ 479 Submitting an Application to the Windows Phone Marketplace........................................................... 481 Sandboxed Execution and the Execution Manager .............................................................................. 483 Private Application Distribution Options ............................................................................................... 484

Implementing Network Security ....................................................................................484 Securing Connections with SSL............................................................................................................ 484 Testing and Opening an SSL Connection.............................................................................................. 485

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Creating a Self-Signed Certificate ........................................................................................................ 486 Exporting a Self-Signed Certificate ...................................................................................................... 492 Installing a Self-Signed Certificate on Windows Phone ....................................................................... 494

Implementing Data Security ..........................................................................................495 Using HMACSHA1 and HMACHSHA256................................................................................................. 496 Using Rfc2898DeriveBytes and AES to Encrypt Data ........................................................................... 500 Information Rights Management .......................................................................................................... 504

Understanding Device Physical Security .......................................................................504 Meeting Certification Requirements ..............................................................................505 Applications Must Implement MSIL Code ............................................................................................. 505 Applications Must Not Implement Any Security-Critical Code.............................................................. 506 Capability List ....................................................................................................................................... 507

Obfuscating Your Application Code ...............................................................................508 Summary .......................................................................................................................512 „ Index ...................................................................................................................513

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About the Authors   Henry Lee is the founder of ToeTapz (www.toetapz.com) and New Age Solution (http://newagesolution.net), and is passionate about technology. He works with various Fortune 500 companies delivering mobile applications and rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is focusing his energy on delivering mobile applications on Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone. In his spare time, he helps his communities by delivering sessions at technology events. He enjoys discussing current trends in technology with other technologists and sharing business insights with fellow colleagues. You will often find Henry at a local cigar bar, enjoying a cigar and a drink while trying to come up with the next big mobile application.

  Eugene Chuvyrov is an independent .NET consultant in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida. He was lucky enough to start working with Microsoft technologies when he graduated from college in 1998 and has been consistently delivering a positive return on investment to the clients that engage him. His most recent venture is an online event marketing startup, Packed House Events (http://packedhouseevents.com), which extends event creation, marketing, and electronic payments to anybody with Internet access. Eugene also facilitates the meetings of the Jacksonville Software Architecture Group, where he enjoys networking and learning from smart people. As soon as Eugene heard the news that a new mobile platform (Windows Phone 7) was being released by Microsoft, he was intrigued. It was hard to resist the temptation of wide-open possibilities to create smartphone applications using his favorite IDE and all the latest cloud- and functional programming–based technologies. This passion, discussed over a cigar with Henry at a local cigar bar, resulted in the book you now hold in your hands. He sincerely hopes you find it useful!

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About the Technical Reviewer   Rob Garrett has worked with SharePoint since the early beta version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and has leveraged his talents for SharePoint architecture and design with Portal Solutions— a SharePoint consultant company in Rockville, Maryland. Rob has extensive background in .NET technologies and has developed software for Microsoft frameworks since the early days of C++ and MFC. In pursuit of his career dreams, Rob left his birthplace in England for a journey to the United States on Thanksgiving Day, 1999, and enjoyed his first American meal from a gas station.

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Acknowledgments We would like to express our love and gratitude to our wives for encouraging us to finish this book. We are also grateful to Apress for giving us the opportunity to write this book on Windows Phone development. The staff at Apress made this book possible by spending many days and nights reviewing and editing the book to meet the tight deadline. Jon Hassell provided us with this unique opportunity to share our knowledge. Thank you, Jon, for believing in us. Also, we would like to show our appreciation to the coordinating editor, Tracy Brown, and our extremely diligent reviewers, Gary Schwartz and Rob Garrett. When the first and second edition were published, we also realized that there were many Apress staff members in the marketing department promoting the book; we would like to thank Lisa Lau and the marketing department, and Simon Yu for helping us get in contact with user groups for speaking engagements. We would also like to thank those who sent us e-mail with comments and those who blogged about our books on the Web with kind remarks. Many community members helped us improve upon our first and second editions by offering valuable feedback. We used that feedback to make this edition better and included a lot of information about new features of the latest release of the Windows Phone OS.

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Introduction This is the third edition of this book. We wanted to improve upon the first two editions and update the book with new features of the Windows Phone OS, as well as provide hands-on knowledge on how to program the plethora of features offered by Windows Phone devices. While the second edition was being written, Microsoft and Nokia formally announced their partnership and signed an agreement to seal their commitment. While we were writing the third edition, Nokia phones were being released to the European markets, and they should be coming to the United States in days. We hope that this book will provide developers with the practical knowledge that we gained by developing real-world applications; we also hope it will inspire developers to create many cool applications for the Windows Phone platform.

Who This Book Is For This book assumes that you have basic C# and .NET knowledge. This book will provide you with basic fundamentals and skills that you need to be successful in developing Windows Phone applications. You don’t need previous experience developing mobile applications—the only thing you need is a desire to learn new technology.

What You Need to Use This Book In order to write Windows Phone applications and test out the examples in this book, you’ll need to download the tools listed here. All of these are available at no charge from Microsoft. You’ll find additional information on how to install and use these tools in Part 1 of this book. •

Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ 1/7/7/177D6AF8-17FA-40E7-AB53-00B7CED31729/vm_web.exe

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Zune software: www.zune.net/en-us/products/software/download/

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User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=183218

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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Certification Requirements: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9730558

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express: www.microsoft.com/express/Database/

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Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.2 June 2010: http://download.microsoft.com/ DOWNLOAD/1/F/9/1F96D60F-EBE9-44CB-BD58-88C2EC14929E/VSCLOUDSERVICE.EXE

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Azure SDK (June 2010): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/

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Windows Azure Platform Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/ details.aspx?familyid=413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78

How This Book Is Organized This book contains 19 chapters, broken into 2 major parts. In Part 1, we will walk you through the development life cycle of the application. You will go from coding the simplest possible Hello World– style Windows Phone 7 application to building a full-blown, modern n-tier application that uses both the Windows Phone development platform and the unique cloud services that support it. The section concludes with step-by-step instructions on how to gain certification from Microsoft and offer an application to the public through the Windows Phone Marketplace. In Part 2, you will learn how to use specific features of Windows Phone devices in your applications, including the accelerometer, location services, the Application Bar, reactive extensions, application hub integration, application life cycle events, Isolated Storage, Silverlight, XAML, skinning controls, web browser controls, media elements, photos, push notifications, internalization, and security. While each of its chapters is a tutorial, you can also use Part 2 as a reference. Each chapter focuses on a single phone feature and provides step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate it into your application.

Where to Find Sources for the Examples The source code of all of the examples is available at www.apress.com/ or http://wp7apress.codeplex.com.

Send Us Your Comments We value your input. We’d like to know what you like about the book and what you don’t like about it. When providing feedback, please make sure you include the title of the book in your note to us. We’ve tried to make this book as error-free as possible. However, mistakes happen. If you find any type of error in this book, whether it is a typo or an erroneous command, please let us know about it. Visit the book’s web page at www.apress.com/9781430235965 and click the Errata tab. Your information will be validated and posted on the errata page to be used in subsequent editions of the book.

Contacting the Authors You can contact us directly at the following e-mail addresses: Henry Lee: [email protected] Eugene Chuvyrov: [email protected]

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