Silverlight for Windows Phone

Lessons

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  Windows Phone Navigation and Controls

  This lab introduces you to the Windows Phone layout system, the phone's chrome, and few new controls. The lab explains the basics of navigating between different screens (pages) in a Windows Phone Silverlight application. During the lab you will build a navigation application that switches between…
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  Using Push ​Notificatio​ns

  The end user experience is the first and foremost important characteristic of Windows Phone 7. An extra emphasis during the design of the phone was placed on making sure that applications do not drain the battery. Therefore, WP doesn’t allow your application to run code in a background process,…
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  Building Windows Phone Applications With Silverlight, Part 2

  Together with part 1, these sessions give an overview of the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. Part 2 will cover the new application model, updated control templates, themes, and services available to applications, including new…
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  Launchers and Choosers

  Windows Phone Applications are not able to directly access common stores of information, such as the contacts list, or directly use Windows Phone functionality, such as the camera, phone calls or messaging. To enable applications to provide these common tasks to their users, the Windows Phone 7…
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  Application Lifecycle

  Only a single application can run in the foreground and no 3rd party applications are allowed to run in the background. Therefore when the user navigates away from your application, either to a chooser like picture chooser, or to a launcher like phone call, the Windows Phone operating system…
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  Using Bing Maps

  This lab walks you through the steps required for using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control for Windows Phone, and provides a quick reference for developing Windows Phone applications integrated with Bing Maps.
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  Using Pivot and Panorama Controls

  This lab walks you through the steps required to use the new controls for presenting information, Pivot and Panorama, and learn about the new navigation model in Windows Phone 7.