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Windows Phone 8 Application Development Essentials

By : Tomasz Szostak
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Windows Phone 8 Application Development Essentials

By: Tomasz Szostak

Overview of this book

<p>Windows Phone 8 replaces Windows Phone 7 devices with the Windows NT kernel found on many Windows 8 components. Windows 8 will give you more options to develop better and more visually appealing PC and Tablet applications.</p> <p>A practical guide that will show you how you how to create testable MVVM applications keeping in mind the best UI practices. You will learn how to integrate peripheral sensors and social portals like Facebook and Twitter into your applications. This book shows the advantages of using modern patterns instead of the traditional way of programming.</p> <p>Starting with a Windows Phone UI description, the guide then takes you through the world of fast and fluid design guidelines. After that, you will be shown the beauty of C# and MVVM advantages, finishing with clear descriptions of mobile-application integration with peripherals and social media. Clear and well-described examples throughout will help you become a WP8 developer.</p> <p>You will also learn how to test your applications using Unit Test cut dependencies in your methods using Mocks, and use the newest features of C# such as asynchronous methods. If you are more of a designer than a developer, then there is also an explanation on how to create a consistent look and feel for Windows Phone applications.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Deep Shah is a cofounder and director at InformationWorks (www.informationworks.in). He received his B.E. in Computer Engineeringfrom Pune University, Pune, in 2008 and his M.S. in Information Management from Syracuse University, New York, in 2011. He was also a research assistant to Prof. Kevin Crowston on the Flossmole project (http://flossmole.org/) and has taught enterprise technologies, such as Mainframes, as a teaching assistant at Syracuse University.

Deep is a passionate web and mobile app developer. During his stay in the United States, he had interned and worked as a web developer for the likes of J.P. Morgan Chase, Sidearm Sport (http://www.sidearmsports.com/), Think60 (http://www.think60.net/), and so on.

He is now a cofounder at InformationWorks and is the lead developer of Android and iOS app:

Deep has been a .NET developer for more than five years and has worked on various .NET technologies such as WPF, XAML, LINQ, WinForms, ASP.NET, and so on. He actively follows the Windows Phone development technologies and is in the process of developing all their existing applications for Windows Phone 8.

Melania has worked using Microsoft technologies since being a student in college and with mobile products since the introduction of Windows Phone to the market. She worked on many projects as part of the product development and architecture teams for some large companies in Europe. Since being in college, she’s started activating in the community having presented at some of the best known regional conferences: DevReach, DevSum, and ITCamp.

Waldemar Sudoł is a senior software developer running his own business and cooperating with international corporations. He develops software for many OSes in .NET technology, mostly specialized in mobile and web solutions.

He develops apps for Windows Phone application from the beginning of the platform. He is the author of tens of Windows Phone market applications. He also developed the Windows Store apps. He’s interested in .Net technologies and Windows Store apps.