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Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide

Building connected mobile applications with Microsoft Silverlight

Windows® Phone 7 provides an exciting new opportunity for companies and developers to build applications that travel with users, are interactive and attractive, and are available whenever and wherever users want to work with them. By combining Windows Phone 7 applications with remote services and applications that run In the cloud (such as those using the Windows Azure technology platform), developers can create highly scalable, reliable, and powerful applications that extend the functionality beyond the traditional desktop or laptop; and Into a truly portable and much more accessible environment.

This guide describes a scenario around a fictitious company named Tallspin that has decided to Include Windows Phone 7 as a client device for their existing cloud-based application. Their Windows Azure-based application named Surveys Is described in detail In a previous book In this series, Developing Applications for the Cloud.

After reading this book, you will be familiar with how to design and implement applications for Windows Phone 7 that take advantage of remote services to obtain and upload data while providing a great user experience on the device.

The Contents at a Glance:

• Introducing Windows Phone 7
• Designing Applications for Windows Phone 7
• The Tailspin Scenario
• Building the Mobile Client
• Using Services on the Phone
• Connecting with Services
• Interacting with Windows Marketplace

patterns & practices

Proven practices for predictable results

Save time and reduce risk on your software development projects by incorporating patterns & practices, Microsoft´s applied engineering guidance that includes both production quality source code and documentation.

The guidance is designed to help software development teams:

Make critical design and technology selection decisions by highlighting the appropriate solution architectures, technologies, and Microsoft products for common scenarios

Understand the most important concepts needed for success by explaining the relevant patterns and prescribing the important practices

Get started with a proven code base by providing thoroughly tested software and source that embodies, Microsoft´s recommendations

The patterns & practices team consists of experienced architects, developers, writers, and testers. We work openly with the developer community and industry experts, on every project, to ensure that someß of the best minds in the industry have contributed to and reviewed the guidance as it is being developed.

We also love our role as the bridge between the real world needs of our customers and the wide range of products and technologies that Microsoft provides.

About the Authors:

Dominic Betts is an expert with the patterns & practices team & other Microsoft® groups.
Federico Boerr is a consultant with Southworks SRL.
Scott Densmore is an expert with the patterns & practices team & other Microsoft® groups.
Jose Gallardo Salazar is a consultant with Clarius Consulting.
Alex Homer is a well known author of many ASP.NET titles for Wrox press and other magazines