Tuesday, May 29, 2012

FREE eBook - Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud

Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud” is available online and as a pdf download. This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of how to create an advanced Windows Phone 7.5 app that integrates with remote Windows Azure-based services.

This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of how to create an advanced Windows Phone 7.5 app that integrates with remote Windows Azure-based services. The guide can help you understand how to implement individual features for Windows Phone 7.5 and how to use them together to build an app.
This guide teaches how to :
  • Use Windows Phone 7.5 features including push notification, live and secondary tiles, and background tasks.
  • Manage state and perform navigation.
  • Authenticate and transfer data with a cloud service.
  • Improve maintainability and testability of your application by using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.
In addition to describing the client application, its integration with the web services, and the decisions made during its design and implementation, this book discusses related factors, such as the design patterns used, and the ways that the app could be extended or modified for other purposes.
The result is that, after reading this book, you will be familiar with how to design and implement advanced apps for Windows Phone that provide a great user experience and take advantage of remote services to obtain and upload data
If you are just getting started, read Developing a Windows Phone App from Start to Finish to learn how to create your first Windows Phone app.


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