1 UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone: http://shawnw.me/wpmetroguide
2 In this book, when I say “cloud” I am referring to Internet-based services including services on your own hardware, services in cloud-based hosting (e.g., Azure, Amazon EC2), or public Web APIs (e.g., Amazon’s Web APIs). It does not mean your services have to be hosted in a cloud-based solution.
3 .xap is a packaging format for Silverlight and XNA applications. It is simply a ZIP file with all the code and assets that are needed to run the application.
1 This is an oversimplification of what XAML is. Chapter 3, XAML Overview, will explain the nature of XAML in more detail.
2 For Visual Basic, you would just use the handles keyword instead of the C# event handler ...
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