Windows Phone 7 In Action

Description

Windows Phone 7 is a major shift in the way Microsoft developers design, develop, and sell mobile apps. By leveraging a trio of established technologies, Silverlight, XNA, and C#, developers can blend what they already know about Windows development with the new opportunities and challenges presented by a mobile platform. And with exciting new Windows Phone devices rolling out now, the demand for WP7 apps is just starting to build.

Windows Phone 7 in Action

 is a hands-on guide to building mobile applications for WP7. Written for developers who already know Visual Studio, it zips through the basics and moves on to the nuts and bolts of building great phone apps. By working through the numerous examples and tutorials, readers will master the APIs used to work with a phone's sensors and hardware and tackle web services and applications that use location and push notification services.