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Publication Date: 6 Jun 2011 | Series: A Problem-Solution Approach

Developers are racing to discover how to develop for Windows Phone 7—and there is no quicker resource to help you get up to speed than Windows Phone 7 Recipes. This book covers all aspects of development, configuration, testing, and distribution, with detailed code samples and rapid walkthroughs to support you every step of the way.

You'll find recipes that unlock advanced user interface development, data storage and retrieval, integration with cloud services, adding media and location-based services, and working with Silverlight and Expression Blend. Learn to use sensors such as the camera, GPS, and accelerometer to build cutting-edge applications. Manage the new way to interact with applications using the gestures library both from the XNA Framework library and the Silverlight Windows Phone Toolkit library.

What you’ll learn

How to design, develop, test and distribute your Windows Phone applications.
To create compelling user interfaces using Silverlight and Expression Blend
Understand how to work with device data using isolated storage, LINQ, and XML serialization
How your application can be extended into the cloud using push notifications and web-based services.
To distribute your application for sale using the Windows Phone Marketplace

Who this book is for

Existing .NET and Windows Mobile developers will discover that this is just the book for them. Developers moving to Windows Phone 7 programming from other areas, such as iOS development, will also find its quick-reference format especially valuable.

Put a professional polish on your Windows Phone 7 development with Windows Phone 7 Recipes!

Introduction to Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications
Windows Phone 7 Execution Model
The User Interface
The User Interface With Expression Blend
Gestures
Sensors
Media Management
Isolated Storage
In the Cloud
Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications

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What you’ll learn

How to design, develop, test and distribute your Windows Phone applications.
To create compelling user interfaces using Silverlight and Expression Blend
Understand how to work with device data using isolated storage, LINQ, and XML serialization
How your application can be extended into the cloud using push notifications and web-based services.
To distribute your application for sale using the Windows Phone Marketplace

Who this book is for

Introduction to Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications
Windows Phone 7 Execution Model
The User Interface
The User Interface With Expression Blend
Gestures
Sensors
Media Management
Isolated Storage
In the Cloud
Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications

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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: APRESS (6 Jun 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430233710
ISBN-13: 978-1430233718
Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 1.9 x 23.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,023,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A prolific writer on cutting-edge technologies, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati has contributed to more than a dozen books on .NET, C#, Visual Basic, and ASP.NET. He is a .NET Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and lives in Milan, Italy. You can read his blog at www.ferracchiati.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Collection of HOW-TO Problem Solving 17 Dec 2011

By Kaio TOP 500 REVIEWER

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This book is good at providing WP7 programming solutions to those how-to questions with additional explanation of underlying concepts. The presentation may be a bit monotonous but what matters is obviously the substance which is in good supply. For both style and content, I like Adam Nathan's book - 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Volume 1: Developing Apps 1-50 - which covers the same subject but with better depth and breadth and excellent presentational style (and part 2 of this book to be released soon and on pre-order on Amazon).

I am the first reviewer of this book and you will be surprised to know that this book is already being replaced by its second edition due to the fact that Windows Phone 7 development platform has undergone a significant upgrade from WP7 SDK 7.0 (on which this book is based) to WP7 SDK 7.1 (aka ver 7.5 code name Mango) and books covering this new technology have a catching up to do. The second edition - Windows Phone Recipes A Problem Solution Approach 2nd Edition - is currently on pre-order on Amazon.

Unless you're tempted by good price reduction for this first edition, get the second edition instead. The coverage will almost be identical except that the new features included with Windows Phone Toolkit (August 2011, Sep 2011) are missing from this book. On the plus side, the Windows Phone Toolkit up-to-date full documentation and accompanying comprehensive code samples are available on MSDN for download (and free of course).

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4.0 out of 5 stars This book is an excellent resource but... 16 Aug 2011

By Ken - Published on Amazon.com

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I was looking forward to reading this book since I learned about it. I find sometimes I encounter a problem when I am coding a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) app but I am unsure about how to find the answer. Sometimes the index helps or I just browse to a section of a book I think will help. But mostly you have to hunt around to find a complete answer to your problem.

Windows Phone 7 Recipes focuses on common problems faced by most developers and then proceeds to show what the solution is. Each chapter delves into these problems to demonstrate not only what the answer is but how it was derived, the code you need to implement it on your project and how to run the compiled code on your WP7 phone.

This book goes from introductory problems to things that can be pretty complex. So, it is nice to see that this book devotes full chapters to both gestures and sensors. There is also a chapter on working with the cloud to deal with feed readers and push notifications. Finally there is also a chapter on testing to ensure your apps can get into the Windows Marketplace on first pass through.

The only drawback with the book is that it could have covered some other topics that present problems for WP7 developers. Things like XNA are only mentioned in passing. As well, binding to external sources like XML files could have easily found a home in this book. My final quibble is that the book does not mention whether source code for the chapter examples are available for download on the cover or in the book. I had to browse to the book's page on Apress.com to confirm that they are available.

Overall though this book is an excellent resource for helping to solve those common problems we all run into while creating WP7 apps.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Spend your money wisely - don't buy this book 29 Dec 2011

By Tom19 - Published on Amazon.com

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I purchased this book for Christmas. Money wasted. Hopefully this review will help you avoid making the same mistake.
I have previously purchased and read "Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development", "101 Windows Phone 7 Apps", and "Programming Windows Phone 7". I've read dozens of online tutorials and blogs on windows phone 7 development and have an app available in the marketplace. The thing that drew me to purchase this book was the appealing idea of presenting a series of micro-chapters each in the form of a problem and answer. This is a great idea almost completely unrealized due to extremely poor execution and content.
Perhaps it is the case that English is not the native language for all the writers AND the reviewers? Having read through most portions of the book - I found the switching verb tenses, run on sentences, subject verb disagreement, and other basic English writing skills so poorly executed as to make the book irritating to read. The layout is also poorly done. Sometimes there are screen shots that fill an entire screen even though they convey next to no information, other times a screen shot before a very long winded description would have really helped. The font used for code is very similar to that used for prose making it difficult to read. Contrast this with "101 Windows Phone 7 Apps" which is a delight on the eyes, making great use of fonts, color, and inserts to make the pages flow and make them easier to understand. I wish I had passed on this one.

Grade summary: Prose: D-, Layout/Presentation: D, Content: C-.

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