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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications

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Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications

Overview of this book

Windows Phone 7.5 has met with some great initial reviews from all mobile critics. It is poised to be the '3rd' eco-system for mobile, joining Apple's iOS and Google's Android platform. With Microsoft and Nokia working on multiple devices based on Windows Phone, the platform is a no-brainer enterprise success. Microsoft Office, Email, Skype and a fresh new mobile operating system has been a great champion of a cause for both Microsoft and Nokia. "Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications" will teach you to divein to the new Windows Phone Experience. No more 600 page bibles - just the right mix of text and lots of code to get you started!"Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications" covers location based services and maps, and focuses on methods of location detection and maps. Powered with this information, two real-world applications are covered. In short, this is a concise book on building location aware apps for Windows Phone.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location-aware Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Extending the Hello Location example for showing nearby events


In Chapter 2, Using Location in Windows Phone 7.5, we saw a simple location example titled "Hello Location" that showed our location information. We will extend this to build a location-enabled events app using the Eventful API.

The following are essential before we start building our location-enabled events app:

We will use the simple Windows Phone application template to create a new sample application titled Hello Events, and add a new page to it; so let's begin:

  1. 1. Open the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone IDE, and create a new project by selecting File | New Project. Select the Windows Phone Application template within the Visual C# option; Name it as HelloEvents.

  2. 2. Copy the code and UI from our Hello Location...