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Contents at a Glance
Part I The Basics
1 Hello, Windows Phone 7 .............................................................. 2
Part II Silverlight
2 Getting Oriented.......................................................................... 29
3 An Introduction to Touch........................................................... 47
4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures ............................................. 62
5 Sensors and Services ................................................................... 80
6 Issues in Application Architecture ...........................................103
7 XAML Power and Limitations................................................... 138
8 Elements and Properties........................................................... 165
9 The Intricacies of Layout ..........................................................192
10 The App Bar and Controls ........................................................ 232
11 Dependency Properties ............................................................. 296
12 Data Bindings .............................................................................338
13 Vector Graphics .......................................................................... 393
14 Raster Graphics ..........................................................................461
15 Animations ................................................................................. 508
16 The Two Templates ...................................................................578
17 Items Controls ............................................................................641
18 Pivot and Panorama ..................................................................712
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Part III XNA
19 Principles of Movement ............................................................ 750
20 Textures and Sprites.................................................................. 775
21 Dynamic Textures ......................................................................799
22 From Gestures to Transforms ..................................................840
23 Touch and Play...........................................................................900
24 Tilt and Play ...............................................................................952
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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................................. xii
Part I The Basics
1 Hello, Windows Phone 7............................................................... 2
Targeting Windows Phone 7 ...........................................................................2
The Hardware Chassis ......................................................................................4
Sensors and Services ........................................................................................6
File | New | Project ...........................................................................................7
A First Silverlight Phone Program ..................................................................8
The Standard Silverlight Files ........................................................................10
Color Themes ..................................................................................................17
Points and Pixels.............................................................................................18
The XAP is a ZIP..............................................................................................20
An XNA Program for the Phone ...................................................................21
2 Getting Oriented.......................................................................... 29
Silverlight and Dynamic Layout ....................................................................29
Orientation Events ..........................................................................................36
XNA Orientation .............................................................................................38
Simple Clocks (Very Simple Clocks)..............................................................41
3 An Introduction to Touch ........................................................... 47
Low-Level Touch Handling in XNA...............................................................47
The XNA Gesture Interface ............................................................................51
Low-Level Touch Events in Silverlight..........................................................52
The Manipulation Events ...............................................................................56
Routed Events .................................................................................................59
Some Odd Behavior? ......................................................................................61
4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures.............................................. 62
XNA Texture Drawing ....................................................................................63
The Silverlight Image Element ......................................................................65
Images Via the Web .......................................................................................66
Image and ImageSource ................................................................................70
Loading Local Bitmaps from Code ................................................................71
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