Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud

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January 2012

Summary

This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of how to create an advanced Windows Phone 7.5 app that integrates with remote Windows Azure-based services. The guide can help you understand how to implement individual features for Windows Phone 7.5 and how to use them together to build an app.

This guide teaches how to :

• Use Windows Phone 7.5 features including push notification, live and secondary tiles, and background tasks.
• Manage state and perform navigation.
• Authenticate and transfer data with a cloud service.
• Improve maintainability and testability of your application by using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.

In addition to describing the client application, its integration with the web services, and the decisions made during its design and implementation, this book discusses related factors, such as the design patterns used, and the ways that the app could be extended or modified for other purposes.

The result is that, after reading this book, you will be familiar with how to design and implement advanced apps for Windows Phone that provide a great user experience and take advantage of remote services to obtain and upload data

If you are just getting started, read Developing a Windows Phone App from Start to Finish to learn how to create your first Windows Phone app.

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Chapters	Preface 1- The Tailspin Scenario 2- Building the Mobile Client Design of the User Interface Using the Model-ViewView-Model Pattern 3- Using Services on the Phone Using Isolated Storage on the Phone Handling Activation and Deactivation Handling Asynchronous Interactions Synchronizing Data between the Phone and the Cloud Using Live Tiles on the Phone Using Location Services on the Phone Acquiring Image and Audio Data on the Phone 4- Connecting with Services Notifying the Mobile Client of New Surveys Accessing Data in the Cloud Filtering Data
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License	Microsoft patterns & practices License

Authors and Contributors

This guide was produced by the following individuals:

• Program and Product Management: Eugenio Pace
• Subject Matter Experts: Amrita Bhandari, David Britch, Bob Brumfield, Francis Cheung, Scott Densmore, Adam Kinney, Jesse Liberty, Rohit Sharma, and Karl Shifflett.
• Development: Francis Cheung, and Adam Kinney (Robert Ingebretsen LLC)
• Test team: Amrita Bhandari (Satyam Computer Services), and Rohit Sharma
• Edit team: David Britch (Content Master Ltd.), RoAnn Corbisier, and Nancy Michell (Content Master Ltd.).
• Book design and illustrations: Ellen Forney, John Hubbard (eson), Katie Niemer and Eugenio Pace.
• Release Management: Richard Burte

We want to thank the customers, partners, and community members who have patiently reviewed our early content and drafts. Among those, we want to highlight the exceptional contributions of Jonas Follesø, Alex Golesh, and Shawn Wildermuth. A very special thanks to Larry Lieberman and Jeff Wilcox from the Windows Phone team for their continued support.

Phone Related Titles

• Developing a Windows Phone App from Start to Finish
• Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern
• Building Testable Windows Phone Applications

Cloud Related Titles

• Developing Applications for the Cloud, 2nd Edition
• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition
• A Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control, 2nd Edition

Feedback and Support

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Visit the patterns & practices Windows Phone Guidance Community site. This content is a guidance offering, designed to be reused, customized, and extended. It is not a Microsoft product. Code-based guidance is shipped "as is" and without warranties. Customers can obtain support through Microsoft Support Services for a fee, but the code is considered user-written by Microsoft support staff.

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