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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

Chapter 5. Location-aware News App — PacktNews

Hyperlocal applications and websites such as AOL's Patch.com provide precise and accurate news up to the neighborhood level, based on the user's location. In this chapter, we will learn to build a location-aware news application for Windows Phone 7.5—titled PacktNews — using AOL's Patch News API.

This chapter covers:

  • Understanding the Patch News API

  • Consuming the Patch News API — HelloNews

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

Understanding the Patch News API

AOL's Patch.com is a hyperlocal news portal that provides comprehensive and trusted local content to its users, and is powered by editors, writers, photographers, and videographers who live nearby.

Patch has a huge editorial team as well as freelance bloggers that help create original content, and which is published to a network of more than 850 sites. Patch local content includes news, events, business listings, photos, videos, and announcements...