{"product_id":"9780672335525","title":"101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50","description":"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull Color\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINCLUDES COMPLETE CODE AND ASSETS FOR EACH APP IN THIS VOLUME!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGot a great idea for an app? There’s a chapter for that!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! \u003ci\u003e101 Windows Phone 7 Apps\u003c\/i\u003e is a book series like no other–best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam’s experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine how long it would take you to develop and test 50 apps and how much you would learn from the experience. Rather than spending all that time starting from scratch, use this book to hit the ground running! Whether you simply make cosmetic changes to apps in this book (for example, creating kid-themed versions), repurpose apps (such as building a mortgage calculator based on Chapter 10’s tip calculator), or build something completely unique, this book can greatly accelerate your development time and help you create high-quality apps. Sell your apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and make this book pay for itself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume I contains the first 50 apps and covers the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEverything you need to know about Silverlight\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFully exploiting phone features such as the application bar, hardware\/software keyboards, multi-touch, accelerometer, microphone, and more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUsing rich controls such as pivots, panoramas, and controls in free toolkits, such as date\/time pickers, toggle switches, charts, and graphs\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilding your own custom controls, including popular ones missing from the platform, such as a checkable list box, multi-select picker box, and color picker\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBroadly applicable pages, such as a photo-cropping page and accelerometer-calibration page \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to make your app look and feel like a first-party app\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractical tips on a wide range of topics, even acquiring and creating sound effects, using custom fonts, and creating icons\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047906263280,"sku":"9780672335525","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780672335525_p0.jpg?v=1763611941","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780672335525","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}