Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise

Chapter 10. Developing for Windows Phone

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

—Thomas A. Edison

In this chapter:

• Getting Ready for Windows Phone Development

• Programming with the Silverlight Framework

• Deploying Windows Phone Applications

• Summary

Windows Phone, the successor to Windows Mobile, is Microsoft’s newest operating system for smartphones. Similar to Apple (and unlike Google), Microsoft exercises strict control over the hardware platform on which Windows Phone applications can run. This makes it easier to write applications because you don’t have innumerable resolutions and varying hardware capabilities (such as odd sensors or cards) to deal with.

The Windows Phone application programming interface (API) and development ...