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Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed is the
definitive guide to Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8
platform for intermediate to advanced developers.
Written by Microsoft MVP and leading Windows Phone and
WPF innovator Daniel Vaughan, this full-color guide
covers everything developers need to rapidly build
highly competitive Windows Phone 8 mobile apps.
Vaughan teaches through complete sample
apps—leveraging the MVVM pattern—illuminating each key
concept with fully explained code and real-world
context. He presents best practices for building highly
functional, maintainable, and attractive mobile
interfaces; integrating touch, rich media, and data;
testing; profiling; and more.
Expanded and
updated, Vaughan shares expert insights available in no
other book, drawing on his exceptional access to the
Windows Phone development team through the elite
Microsoft Silverlight and WPF Insiders group. Along the
way, he presents exceptionally practical and thorough
coverage of many powerful new Windows Phone 8 platform
enhancements, including full chapters on voice commands
and speech synthesis, incorporating speech-driven
experiences, Wallet integration, new Live Tile
capabilities, the Nokia Maps control, launching apps via
file and protocol associations, and much
more.
Detailed information on how
to…
* Get started quickly with Windows
Phone XAML development in Visual Studio
* Master the
Capabilities Model, threading, and the Execution
Model
* Create attractive mobile interfaces using
Windows Phone’s rich set of controls, including the
Windows Phone Toolkit
* Make the most of the
application bar and other interface elements
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Enhance user experience with advanced support for touch,
gestures, and sensors
* Build location-aware apps
that use Nokia Maps and location services
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Incorporate speech-driven experiences
* Quickly
internationalize apps for global
markets
* Leverage Windows Phone 8’s improved
camera support
* Connect apps to online services via
SOAP, REST, and OData
* Validate user input on the
client side or via WCF services
* Use Windows Phone
8’s powerful local database support
* Implement
background actions, file transfers, and audio
playback
* Automatically launch your app using file
and protocol associations
* Unit test to find defects
earlier, saving time and
money
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