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    Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#: Develop amazing applications for Windows Phone using F#
    Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#: Develop amazing applications for Windows Phone using F#
    Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#: Develop amazing applications for Windows Phone using F#
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    Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#: Develop amazing applications for Windows Phone using F#

    By Lohith G N

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    Windows Phone is an OS which is also a platform in itself and provides an opportunity for application developers to build their apps and sell them on the Windows Phone Marketplace. Windows Phone is slowly catching up in the race with iOS and Android. Although well suited for scientific and mathematical calculations, the Windows Phone Platform provides an opportunity to program in F#. "Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#"  focuses on making the user aware of Windows Phone App Development with the F# programming language in as short a time as possible. The book teaches you about the development environment, helps you understand the project structure, understand the controls, and ends with some of the cool features of the platform like sensors, launchers, and choosers. The book starts off with enabling the user with the right tools required to start developing. It focuses on getting the IDE ready, and project and item templates. By the end of the book the user will be familiarized with the different aspects of the platform itself. The transition from one chapter to another is short and focused so that you can get to the meat of the topic quickly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781849687850
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      Table of Contents

      Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Why Subscribe?

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Setting up Windows Phone Development with F#

      What is Windows Phone?

      Windows Phone – a standardized platform

      Development option for Windows Phone

      Windows Phone Application Platform Architecture

      What is F#?

      Prerequisites for development

      Visual Studio 2010

      Windows Phone Software Development Kit 7.1

      Windows Phone project and Item Templates for F#

      Summary

      2. F# Windows Phone Project Overview

      Windows Phone Project Templates for F#

      F# and C# Windows Phone Application (Silverlight) Project Template

      The AppHost project

      The App project

      Output

      F# and C# Windows Phone List Application (Silverlight) Project Template

      F# and C# Windows Phone Panorama Application (Silverlight) Project Template

      Summary

      3. Working with Windows Phone Controls

      Supported controls in Windows Phone

      Hello world in F#

      Working with the Button control

      Working with the Checkbox control

      Working with the Hyperlink control

      Working with the ListBox control

      Working with the MessageBox control

      Working with the PasswordBox control

      Working with the ProgressBar control

      Working with the RadioButton control

      Working with the Slider control

      Working with the TextBox control

      Summary

      4. Windows Phone Screen Orientations

      Orientation

      Types of orientations

      Setting orientation

      Detecting orientation

      Changing orientation in an emulator

      Orientation handling techniques

      Auto sizing and scrolling

      Grid layout

      Summary

      5. Windows Phone Gesture Events

      Gestures

      Gesture support in Silverlight for Windows Phone

      Manipulation events

      Gesture events

      Understanding manipulation events

      Understanding gesture events

      Summary

      6. Windows Phone Navigation

      Navigation in Windows Phone

      Windows Phone navigation model

      PhoneApplicationFrame

      Phone application page

      Hub and Spoke navigation model

      F# XAML Item Templates

      Navigating between pages using a hyperlink button

      Navigating between pages using NavigationService

      Passing data between pages

      Summary

      7. Windows Phone and Data Access

      Data sources

      Resource files

      Content files

      Isolated storage

      IsolatedStorageSettings

      IsolatedStorageFile

      HTTP classes

      Summary

      8. Launchers and Choosers

      Overview of Launchers and Choosers

      Launchers

      BingMapsTask

      BingMapsDirectionsTask

      EmailComposeTask

      MarketplaceDetailsTask

      MarketplaceHubTask

      MarketplaceReviewTask

      MarketplaceSearchTask

      MediaPlayerLauncher

      PhoneCallTask

      SmsComposeTask

      WebBrowserTask

      Choosers

      AddressChooserTask

      CameraCaptureTask

      EmailAddressChooserTask

      PhoneNumberChooserTask

      SaveEmailAddressTask

      Summary

      9. Windows Phone Sensors

      Accelerometer

      GPS (location services)

      Summary

      Index

      Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

      Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

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      Credits

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      Lohith G.N.

      Reviewers

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      About the Author

      Lohith G. N. hails from Mysore, India and currently resides in Bangalore, India. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He presently works as a Developer Evangelist for Telerik in India and takes care of Evangelism for the South Indian region. He comes from a Production Engineering background and ended up in software development thanks to the FORTRAN language that he learned during his graduation days. Being well versed with the .NET platform, Lohith has experience building web applications, Windows applications, and Service Oriented Architecture. He has spent close to a decade mostly in the services-based industry and is well versed with the agile method of software development.

      Lohith is also a two time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET/IIS. He was given this prestigious award from Microsoft in 2011 and 2012. He often writes on ASP.NET/ODATA and maintains his own blog at http://kashyapas.com. He can be reached on Twitter and his Twitter handle is @kashyapa. To know more about Lohith you can check out http://about.me/kashyapa. Lohith is also one of the User Group leads for Bangalore DotNet User Group—one of the most active User Groups in India. He is a regular speaker at the local user groups.

      This is the first ever book that I have written and I take this opportunity to thank my parents. I would also like to thank my lovely wife Rashmi and my lovely son Adithya for having put up with me while writing this book. I have promised them a nice vacation as soon as I am done with the book.

      About the Reviewers

      Senthil Kumar is a Software Engineer and a passionate blogger. He works mainly on Windows or client development technologies and has good working experience in C#/.NET, Delphi, Win forms, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and SQL Server.

      He completed his Master of Computer Applications from Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore in the year 2009 and is a MCA rank holder (gold medalist).He has worked as a technical reviewer for Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook, Sandeep Chandra, Packt Publishing.

      You can connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/isenthil, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/kumarbsenthil, and his blog at www.ginktage.com.

      Vivek Thangaswamy is highly committed to technology support and service to the global community and workplace. Looking at his community support activity Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three consecutive years—2007 for ASP.NET, 2008 and 2009 for SharePoint. He has also been awarded the Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for the year 2011 from www.npa.org. He has been awarded with bronze, silver, and gold medals by dotnetspider.com for his contribution to the community. www.experts-exchange.com has awarded him Master status in XML, ASP.NET, and SharePoint.

      Apart from this recognition, Vivek has contributed to the MSDN forums and www.codeproject.com. He is the administrator for all technology-related discussions at www.redpipit.com. He is the creator for two projects in www.codeplex.com—an open source community for Microsoft Technologies. He has authored Exploring SharePoint Foundation 2010, Darkcrab Press and VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming, Packt Publishing, co-authored the book System Analysis and Design, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, and has been the technical reviewer for three books Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing, Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 Implementation Guide, Packt Publishing.

      I would like to dedicate this book to my family and friends; they are the confidence and the strength in my life.

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