Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 2 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1

This session covers how to instantiate the application bar, the Application Chrome, System Tray and the Application Bar in XAML. It concludes with a demo using Microsoft Expression Blend for enabling the application bar and including application icons and menu items.
The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers interested in developing applications or games for the new Windows Phone 7 Platform. The ~14 ½ hour course is based on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and taught by Microsoft MVP's and Microsoft Press Authors, Andy Wigley and Rob S. Miles. The Designing for Windows Phone 7 session is taught my Microsoft Design experts, Jon Harris and Bryan Agnetta. The training is wrapped up with an audio podcast with a panel of Microsoft experts answering the questions posed throughout the training.
Watch these entertaining sessions and complete the labs found on Channel 9 (https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/) to gain development skills using both Microsoft XNA and Microsoft Silverlight.
For copies of the student files and links to demo code, you can go to the Windows Phone 7 Born To Learn Forum (http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/wp7/m/default.aspx).
Updated! Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1
Session 3: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2
Updated! Session 4: The Application Bar
Session 5: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1
Session 6: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2
Updated! Session 7: Isolation Storage
Updated! Session 8: The Application Lifecycle
Updated! Session 9: Launchers and Choosers
Updated! Session 10: Push Notifications
Session 11: Marketing your Windows Phone Applications
Session 12: Working with Media
New Sessions:
Session 13: Panorama and Pivots
Session 14: XNA Deep Dive, Part 1
Session 15: XNA Deep Dive, Part 2
Session 16: Location and Bing Maps
Session 17: Optimizing for Performance
Session 18: Designing Apps Using Expression Blend & Metro
Session 19: Ask the Experts podcast
Hi,
I just wanted to write in and say THANKS!!!!! These videos tutorials are superhelpful, especially for an amatuer like me!
Kamal
Using the Silverlight Gameloop in the video, how would you suggest pausing a game from app.xaml when the Rootframe.obscured event fires?
Where can I find session 10 demo files? The links on SkyDrive seem to be missing it or showing a different session even though I'm clickon 10-12.
Hallo,
yes I would say thank you for these cool video tutorials. These videos are perfectly to give the us beginners a good overview of the possibilities from the new windows phone.
Came from Flash/Flex/AIR Plattform, but I like the .Net possibillities more and more... Hope that the new mobile phone will be a big success!
bye
Markus
Thanks for these videos. I came across this video on this site: https://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/article/wp7_jump_start, and it has icorrect title for this session (it says its about Game developement, but its about app bar :)).
Cool videos, but the linking between them is a total mess. This is where I ended when I clicked "Session 4: Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform". So where has that one gone ?
Session 4 -