Chapter 1. Introduction to Windows Phone App Development
In This Chapter
• Development tools installation
• Comparing XNA and Silverlight
• A first look at Silverlight for Windows Phone
• A first look at XNA for Windows Phone
The mobile phone industry is highly competitive. After stiff competition from other mobile technologies, Microsoft has gone all out to reenter the mobile software market with a strong emphasis on software, hardware, and services. Windows Phone 7 represents a clean break from the past, and as a consequence Windows Mobile 6.5 applications are not compatible with Windows Phone 7.
Windows Phone provides developers with two powerful UI technologies for developing apps: Silverlight and XNA. While the focus ...
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