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Programming Windows Phone 7

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On February 15, 2010, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft® CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series and promised a product introduction in time for year-end holiday shopping. With its clean look, striking fonts, and new organizational paradigms, Windows Phone 7 Series not only represents a break with the Windows Mobile past but also differentiates itself from other smartphones currently in the market. This new book by Charles Petzold covers both Silverlight® and XNA® development for creating applications.

450 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2010

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Charles Petzold

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Charles Petzold has been writing about programming for Windows-based operating systems for 24 years. A Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and a Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, currently in its sixth edition and one of the best-known programming books of all time; the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and more than a dozen other books.

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Profile Image for SALEM.
379 reviews165 followers
September 16, 2014
This a review based on jumping reading and focusing on the only SilverLight part in the book:

Generally the information provided is very nice for the beginner geeks, Advanced people won't be very happy!!

The most annoying point is the reading experience itself!!!

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This a review based on jumping reading and focusing on the only SilverLight part in the book:

Generally the information provided is very nice for the beginner geeks, Advanced people won't be very happy!!

The most annoying point is the reading experience itself!!!
Profile Image for Aleksey Trufanov.
65 reviews26 followers
September 8, 2011
Хорошая книга для начинающих. Не предполагает у читателя знания Silverlight/XAML или XNA. Построена по принципу «от простого к сложному». Cодержит небольшие но законченные примеры, помогающие разобраться в предмете каждой главы, причём зачастую для иллюстрации нюансов создаётся один вариант программы, потом объясняется почему такой вариант — не лучший и программа тут же дорабатывается.

Продвинутых техник типа работы с акселерометром и т.п. — нет, т.е. книга, по сути, является хорошим введением.

Рекомендую читать и тут же пробовать изложенное. И сама книга, и исходные коды примеров к ней выложены Microsoft в бесплатном доступе (кстати, есть не только PDF, но и EPUB, и Kindle-версия).

В книге 3 части: введение, Silverlight, XNA.

Эта книга есть и в русском переводе: «Программируем Windows Phone 7», но в русской версии есть только 1-я и 2-я части, и поэтому не 1000+ страниц, а менее 700.
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231 reviews36 followers
October 9, 2010
Jedná se jen o preview 2, ne o finální knihu.
Ch. Petzold se snaží, ale těžko zastře a obejde veškerá omezení mobilní platformy založené na Silverlightu 3. XNA Framework vypadá lépe.
Profile Image for Krzysztof Frukacz.
7 reviews1 follower
November 19, 2012
Very good book - found it more useful than most publications of that sort - also very good as a quick reference during development :)
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