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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

Building the PacktNews app using the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.5 Pivot control


Now that we have learnt how to use the Patch News API, let us move ahead to build our PacktNews app using the Windows Phone Pivot control. We will use a free icon from http://findicons.com/icon/169293/news?id=376465# for the PacktNews app.

It is also a good idea to have a look at the taxonomy (in other words, category structure) of the Patch News API. There are two levels of taxonomy supported: category and subcategory level, as shown in the following table:

Taxonomy type

Category

Subcategory

Vertical

news

national

  

local

  

crime

  

politics-and-political-analysis

  

opinion

 

lifestyle

activism

  

arts-and-entertainment

  

crafts

  

fashion

  

food-and-restaurants

  

nightlife

  

shopping

  

real-estate

  

health

  

travel

  

recreation

  

parenting-family-and-children

  

personal

  

religion

  

community

 

education

colleges-and-universities

  

high-schools

  

libraries

 

business

finance

...