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Full Color   INCLUDES COMPLETE CODE AND ASSETS FOR EACH APP IN THIS VOLUME!   Got a great idea for an app? There’s a chapter for that!   Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps is a book series like no other–best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam’s experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace.   Imagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps and how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (for example, creating kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10’s tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!   Volume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the following: Everything you need to know about Silverlight Fully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more Using rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs Building your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker Broadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page How to make your app look and feel like a first-party app Practical tips on a wide range of topics, even acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons

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Author:   Adam Nathan
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Sams Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   2.080kg
ISBN:  

9780672335525

ISBN 10:   0672335522
Pages:   1152
Publication Date:   28 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction     1   Part I: Getting Started Chapter 1: Tally     17 The Application Manifest Capabilities Icons Splash Screen XML Namespaces Status Bar Phone Theme Resources Naming XAML-Defined Elements Button Chapter 2: Flashlight     39 Application Bar Timers Brushes Message Box Chapter 3: In Case of Emergency     61 Orientation On-Screen Keyboard Hardware Keyboard Text Box Input Scopes Scroll Viewer Size Properties Margins and Padding Emulator-Specific Code Chapter 4: Stopwatch     89 Grid StackPanel User Controls Alignment Progress Bar Visibility Orientation Lock Chapter 5: Ruler     123 Canvas Vector Graphics Slider Repeat Button Hardware Back, Start, & Search Buttons Hit Testing Content Controls Chapter 6: Baby Sign Language     153 Page Navigation Data Binding Data Templates List Box Image Resource Versus Content Build Actions Chapter 7: Date Diff     185 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit Date Picker Chapter 8: Vibration Composer     191 Vibration Wrap Panel Running While the Screen is Locked Getting Coordinates of an Element The Tag Property Line Breaks Chapter 9: Fake Call     207 Resources Styles Time Picker Text Line Height Disabling Automatic Screen Lock Chapter 10: Tip Calculator     235 Application Lifecycle Control Templates Routed Events Theme Detection Toggle Button, Radio Button, & Check Box Controls List Box Items Data Binding to a Named Element Chapter 11: XAML Editor     271 Dynamic XAML Popup TextBox Manipulation Background Worker Copy & Paste   Part II: Transforms & Animations Chapter 12: Silly Eye     301 Animation Event Triggers Named Resources Settings Page Color Picker Clipping Chapter 13: Metronome     327 2D Transforms Animating Rotation Animation Completed Event Frame Rate Counter Chapter 14: Love Meter     347 Keyframe Animations Animating Scale Checking Storyboard Status Chapter 15: Mood Ring     361 Color Animations Property Paths Gradient Brushes Object Animations Point Animations Drop Shadows Chapter 16: Lottery Numbers Picker     377 Sharing Animations Creating Animations in C# Looping Selector Chapter 17: Pick a Card Magic Trick     395 3D Transforms Opacity Masks Image Brush One-Time Actions Chapter 18: Cocktails     413 Quick Jump Grid Dependency Properties URL Encoding & Decoding Storyboards as Timers Indeterminate Progress Bars Long List Selector Chapter 19: Animation Lab     441 Custom Controls Visual State Manager Bitmap Caching Tilt Effect   Part III: Storing & Retrieving Local Data Chapter 20: Alarm Clock     463 Isolated Storage Settings Settings Page Guidelines Toggle Switch Using Custom Fonts Runs Chapter 21: Passwords & Secrets     493 Encryption & Decryption Password Box Value Converters DateTimeOffset Observable Collections INotifyPropertyChanged Chapter 22: Notepad     527 Reading & Writing Files Chapter 23: Baby Milestones     545 Reading & Writing Pictures Serialization Two-Way Data Binding Chapter 24: Baby Name Eliminator     565 Local Databases Shipping Data with Your App Chapter 25: Book Reader     587 Pagination List Picker Stretching List Box Items   Part IV: Pivot, Panorama, Charts, & Graphs Chapter 26: TODO List     611 Pivot Context Menu Data Contract Attributes Chapter 27: Groceries     649 Panorama Chapter 28: Alphabet Flashcards     675 Filmstrip-Style Swiping Chapter 29: Weight Tracker     681 Charts & Graphs   Part V: Audio & Video Chapter 30: Cowbell     711 Playing Sound Effects Composition Target’s Rendering Event Chapter 31: Trombone     719 Sound Manipulation Sound Looping SoundEffectInstance Chapter 32: Local FM Radio     731 Radio Tuner The NetworkInterface.InterfaceType Property Chapter 33: Subservient Cat     743 Playing Video MediaElement   Part VI: Microphone Chapter 34: Bubble Blower     759 Sound Detection Reversing a Slider Chapter 35: Talking Parrot     775 Microphone Audio Playback Chapter 36: Sound Recorder     797 Saving Audio Files Playing Sound Backwards Multi-Selection List Box   Part VII: Touch & Multi-Touch Chapter 37: Reflex Test     827 The Touch.FrameReported Event Touch Points Chapter 38: Musical Robot     839 Multi-Touch Tracking Individual Fingers Chapter 39: Paint     847 Ink Presenter Manual Serialization and Deserialization XmlSerializer DataContractSerializer DataContractJsonSerializer Undo & Redo Chapter 40: Darts     875 Gesture Listener Manipulation Events Flick Gesture Direct Hit Testing Chapter 41: Deep Zoom Viewer     897 Pinch & Stretch Zooming Gestures Double-Tap Gesture MultiScaleImage Chapter 42: Jigsaw Puzzle     913 Drag Gesture Image Cropping WriteableBitmap Taking Phone Screenshots Chapter 43: Spin the Bottle!      945 Rotate Gesture Simulating Inertia   Part VIII: Accelerometer Tricks Chapter 44: Boxing Glove     951 Accelerometer Basics Chapter 45: Coin Toss     965 Throwing Detection Chapter 46: Noise Maker     981 Shaking Detection Chapter 47: Moo Can     993 Turning-Over Detection AccelerometerHelper Data Smoothing Accelerometer Calibration Chapter 48: Level     1007 Determining the Phone’s Angle Chapter 49: Balance Test     1019 2D Motion Chapter 50: Pedometer     1035 Analyzing Walking Motion   Part IX: Appendices Appendix A: Lessons Index     1049 Appendix B: XAML Reference     1059 Appendix C: Theme Resources Reference     1073 Appendix D: Animation Easing Reference     1083 Appendix E: Geometry Reference     1089 Index     1097

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Adam Nathan is a principal software development engineer for Microsoft, a best-selling technical author, and arguably the most prolific developer for Windows Phone. Adam previously cofounded Popfly, Microsoft’s first product built on Silverlight, named one of the 25 most innovative products of 2007 by PCWorld magazine. He is also the founder of PINVOKE.NET, the online resource for .NET developers who need to access Win32.   Adam has created several top apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace that have been featured on Lifehacker, Gizmodo, ZDNet, ParentMap, and various Windows Phone enthusiast sites. Many of them are identical to or based on apps in this book. Chapter 36’s Sound Recorder app was featured on MSDN’s first Channel 9 “Hot Apps” show. With the purchase of this book, the same app is now yours to tweak and sell!   Adam’s books have been considered required reading by many inside Microsoft and throughout the industry. Adam is the author of Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed (Sams, 2008), WPF Unleashed (Sams, 2006), WPF 4 Unleashed (Sams, 2010), and .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (Sams, 2002); a coauthor of ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams, 2001); and a contributor to books including .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005), and Windows Developer Power Tools (O’Reilly, 2006). You can find Adam online at www.adamnathan.net or @adamnathan on Twitter.

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