CHAPTER 1

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Get to Work: Your First Windows Phone Program

We believe the best way to get started with Windows Phone programming is to dive into the deep end.

In this chapter, we’re going to build a non-trivial application from start to finish. While there will be many topics introduced, the skills demonstrated here will be explained and expanded upon in later chapters. We believe that by seeing a real application built you’ll quickly learn many of the fundamentals of Windows Phone Programming.

Along the way you’ll learn how to use some of the controls that Microsoft provides for building phone applications, including layout controls that you’ll ...

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