Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight

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FIGURE 1.1 Windows Phone Start screen 3

FIGURE 1.2 Phone screen real estate 3

FIGURE 1.3 The application bar in action 4

FIGURE 1.4 Panorama application 5

FIGURE 1.5 Last pane of a panorama application 5

FIGURE 1.6 Using Metro chrome, or not 6

FIGURE 1.7 Seven points of input 8

FIGURE 1.8 Metro’s interactive element sizes 10

FIGURE 1.9 Default keyboard 12

FIGURE 1.10 Contextual keyboards 12

FIGURE 1.11 Application lifecycle (tombstoning) 15

FIGURE 1.12 A tile in the hub 17

FIGURE 1.13 Updating tiles 17

FIGURE 1.14 Marketplace application submission process 19

FIGURE 2.1 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 28

FIGURE 2.2 New Project dialog 29

FIGURE 2.3 Picking the phone version to target 29

FIGURE 2.4 The Visual Studio ...