Windows® Phone 7.5 Unleashed

Chapter 2. Fundamental Concepts in Silverlight Development for Windows Phone

In This Chapter

• Understanding the role of XAP files

• Using the Application Deployment tool

• Enabling and identifying app capabilities using the Marketplace Test Kit

• The threading model for Silverlight graphics and animation

• Optimizing animation performance

• Enabling and reading the Frame Rate Counter

• Using memory and execution profiling to identify bottlenecks

• Retrieving device information using the DeviceStatus class

• Applying MVVM to a Windows Phone app

• Simplifying property change notification

• Using commanding with MVVM

• Validating method arguments

• Building a platform agnostic dialog service

This chapter provides an overview of some common pieces ...