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Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook

By : Jonathan Marbutt, Robb Schiefer
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Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook

By: Jonathan Marbutt, Robb Schiefer

Overview of this book

Silverlight has revolutionized development using Microsoft technologies. It is an excellent tool for mobile application development. The XAML-based markup and familiar C# code are the perfect combination for building apps efficiently and with minimum hassle.Packed full of recipes containing comprehensive instructions for the tasks required to build modern compelling smartphone apps using Silverlight.Starting with application design and architecture, you will quickly move on to more technical features and APIs you can implement to make your app stand out. You will use the Camera API to scan barcode, location services to pinpoint the user’s GPS coordinates and accelerometer to provide feedback based on movement of the phone. All of these features can be provided in a slick user interface through the power of Silverlight. Animations, behaviors and XAML provide all you need and more.

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Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook
Jonathan Marbutt | Robb Schiefer
Aug, 2011 | 304 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook
Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Layout and Design
Layout and Design
Introduction
Downloading the tools
Understanding the tools
Creating simple navigation
Using Positioning controls
Discovering the various input controls
ViewStateManager introduction
Understanding the panorama control
Using the pivot control
2
Creating Animation
Creating Animation
Introduction
Using ViewStateManager to create simple animations
The basics of timelines
Using timelines for feedback to users
3
Behaviors and Events
Behaviors and Events
Introduction
Understanding events
Understanding basic behaviors
Custom behavior
Physics engine behavior
4
DataBinding 101/MVVM
DataBinding 101/MVVM
Introduction
A case for MVVM
Creating a simple model
Creating a ViewModel
Creating a view
Element-to-element binding
5
Services, Data, and RSS
Services, Data, and RSS
Introduction
Creating a WCF service to access a SQL database
Using a WCF service in a Windows Phone application
Building a simple RSS reader
6
Location Services
Location Services
Introduction
Tracking latitude and longitude
Tracking altitude, speed, and course
7
Push Notifications to the Phone
Push Notifications to the Phone
Introduction
Updating the tile background without push
Creating a service to send notifications
Registering for push notifications
Creating a notifications helper
8
Launchers and Choosers
Launchers and Choosers
Introduction
Automating e-mails
9
Sensing with Sensors
Sensing with Sensors
Introduction
Orienting your app
10
Preparing Apps for the Marketplace
Preparing Apps for the Marketplace
Introduction
Configuring capabilities
Index
Index

Element-to-element binding

While we have seen what happens when we bind to a ViewModel in order to get data, there is also the concept of having the ability to bind one control on a screen to another. One of the greatest and most overlooked features in Silverlight is element-to-element binding. This actually means that you can bind any property of any control to a property of another control. We will take a look at how to bind a few different controls to different properties of other controls.

Getting ready

In this example, we are going to stay in Blend the entire time, so let's create a new Windows Phone Application. On the Main Page, drag and drop both a textbox and a slider control. What we are going to do in this example is bind the value of the slider to the textblock.

We also want to go ahead and set the value of the SlideControl to 50 and the Maximum property to 100. This will make your slider control look 50 percent blue.

How to do it...

Now that we have the controls created, we need...

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