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- Sprache: Englisch
Windows Phone is an OS which is also a platform in itself and provides an opportunity for application developers to build their apps and sell them on the Windows Phone Marketplace. Windows Phone is slowly catching up in the race with iOS and Android. Although well suited for scientific and mathematical calculations, the Windows Phone Platform provides an opportunity to program in F#. "Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#" focuses on making the user aware of Windows Phone App Development with the F# programming language in as short a time as possible. The book teaches you about the development environment, helps you understand the project structure, understand the controls, and ends with some of the cool features of the platform like sensors, launchers, and choosers. The book starts off with enabling the user with the right tools required to start developing. It focuses on getting the IDE ready, and project and item templates. By the end of the book the user will be familiarized with the different aspects of the platform itself. The transition from one chapter to another is short and focused so that you can get to the meat of the topic quickly.
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Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#
Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#
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Lohith G.N.
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About the Author
Lohith G. N. hails from Mysore, India and currently resides in Bangalore, India. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He presently works as a Developer Evangelist for Telerik in India and takes care of Evangelism for the South Indian region. He comes from a Production Engineering background and ended up in software development thanks to the FORTRAN language that he learned during his graduation days. Being well versed with the .NET platform, Lohith has experience building web applications, Windows applications, and Service Oriented Architecture. He has spent close to a decade mostly in the services-based industry and is well versed with the agile method of software development.
Lohith is also a two time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET/IIS. He was given this prestigious award from Microsoft in 2011 and 2012. He often writes on ASP.NET/ODATA and maintains his own blog at http://kashyapas.com. He can be reached on Twitter and his Twitter handle is @kashyapa. To know more about Lohith you can check out http://about.me/kashyapa. Lohith is also one of the User Group leads for Bangalore DotNet User Group—one of the most active User Groups in India. He is a regular speaker at the local user groups.
This is the first ever book that I have written and I take this opportunity to thank my parents. I would also like to thank my lovely wife Rashmi and my lovely son Adithya for having put up with me while writing this book. I have promised them a nice vacation as soon as I am done with the book.
About the Reviewers
Senthil Kumar is a Software Engineer and a passionate blogger. He works mainly on Windows or client development technologies and has good working experience in C#/.NET, Delphi, Win forms, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and SQL Server.
He completed his Master of Computer Applications from Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore in the year 2009 and is a MCA rank holder (gold medalist).He has worked as a technical reviewer for Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook, Sandeep Chandra, Packt Publishing.
You can connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/isenthil, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/kumarbsenthil, and his blog at www.ginktage.com.
Vivek Thangaswamy is highly committed to technology support and service to the global community and workplace. Looking at his community support activity Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three consecutive years—2007 for ASP.NET, 2008 and 2009 for SharePoint. He has also been awarded the Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for the year 2011 from www.npa.org. He has been awarded with bronze, silver, and gold medals by dotnetspider.com for his contribution to the community. www.experts-exchange.com has awarded him Master status in XML, ASP.NET, and SharePoint.
Apart from this recognition, Vivek has contributed to the MSDN forums and www.codeproject.com. He is the administrator for all technology-related discussions at www.redpipit.com. He is the creator for two projects in www.codeplex.com—an open source community for Microsoft Technologies. He has authored Exploring SharePoint Foundation 2010, Darkcrab Press and VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming, Packt Publishing, co-authored the book System Analysis and Design, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, and has been the technical reviewer for three books Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing, Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 Implementation Guide, Packt Publishing.
I would like to dedicate this book to my family and friends; they are the confidence and the strength in my life.
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Preface
Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F# is a book for anyone who is familiar with F# and wants to try a hand at Windows Phone application development. This book will cover the basics of application building on the Windows Phone platform but using F# as the language. We will cover everything, from basic requirements to programming on the platform, to project templates, and to developing screens. This book will act as a ready reckoner for folks who want to quickly look at the concepts of Windows Phone application programming.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Setting up Windows Phone Development with F#, is all about setting the stage for Windows Phone development with F#. Here we will take a look at the Windows Phone platform, the F# language, and the prerequisites required to start developing applications.
Chapter 2, F# Windows Phone Project Overview, is all about becoming familiar with the different project templates available for developing Windows Phone applications. We will decipher each project template and understand what each project type contains and how to work with each type. We will also look at some of the item templates required for app development.
Chapter 3, Working with Windows Phone Controls, helps us understand the controls provided by the platform. We will look at more than 10 controls provided by this platform. We will take one control and walk you through how to work with that control. By the end of this chapter you will be familiar with the "toys" you can use to play on this platform.
Chapter 4, Windows Phone Screen Orientations, introduces you to a concept called orientation and shows you how to deal with it in your applications. Since a phone is a handheld device, the user has all freedom to turn the phone upside down or rotate it left or right. This changes the orientation of your application, and as the developer, it is your responsibility to react to this. This chapter will help you understand the different orientations and how to code for handling orientation changes.
Chapter 5, Windows Phone Gesture Events, teaches you how to read the gestures performed by the user in your application. We will take a look at what gestures are and what gesture events are supported by the platform. We will also look at how to handle gesture events in your applications.
Chapter 6, Windows Phone Navigation, is all about understanding how to allow users to move from one screen to another screen in your application. We will look at the Windows Phone navigation model and different techniques to enable navigation.
Chapter 7, Windows Phone and Data Access, helps you understand how to store and access data on the Windows Phone platform since one of the fundamental aspects of any application is data. We will try to understand the different data source options available on the platform.
Chapter 8, Launchers and Choosers, introduces a whole set of built-in applications, also known as Launchers and Choosers. Launchers and Choosers help us make use of the built-in apps or call the built-in apps right from our own apps.
Chapter 9, Windows Phone Sensors, introduces you to multiple sensors supported by Windows Phone that allow apps to determine orientation and motion of the device. With sensors, it is possible to develop apps that make the physical device itself an input. Typical uses of these sensors are for games, location-aware apps, and so on. The Windows Phone platform provides APIs to retrieve data from the individual sensors.
What you need for this book
In order to work through this book and to learn Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#, you will need to have the following software:
Who this book is for
If you know F# and are interested in developing for the Windows Phone 7.5 platform, this book is for you. It gives you a jump-start to developing Windows Phone 7.5 apps using F#.
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