Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

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Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

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About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting up Windows Phone Development with F#

What is Windows Phone?

Windows Phone – a standardized platform

Development option for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Application Platform Architecture

What is F#?

Prerequisites for development

Visual Studio 2010

Windows Phone Software Development Kit 7.1

Windows Phone project and Item Templates for F#

Summary

2. F# Windows Phone Project Overview

Windows Phone Project Templates for F#

F# and C# Windows Phone Application (Silverlight) Project Template

The AppHost project

The App project

Output

F# and C# Windows Phone List Application (Silverlight) Project Template

F# and C# Windows Phone Panorama Application (Silverlight) Project Template

Summary

3. Working with Windows Phone Controls

Supported controls in Windows Phone

Hello world in F#

Working with the Button control

Working with the Checkbox control

Working with the Hyperlink control

Working with the ListBox control

Working with the MessageBox control

Working with the PasswordBox control

Working with the ProgressBar control

Working with the RadioButton control

Working with the Slider control

Working with the TextBox control

Summary

4. Windows Phone Screen Orientations

Orientation

Types of orientations

Setting orientation

Detecting orientation

Changing orientation in an emulator

Orientation handling techniques

Auto sizing and scrolling

Grid layout

Summary

5. Windows Phone Gesture Events

Gestures

Gesture support in Silverlight for Windows Phone

Manipulation events

Gesture events

Understanding manipulation events

Understanding gesture events

Summary

6. Windows Phone Navigation

Navigation in Windows Phone

Windows Phone navigation model

PhoneApplicationFrame

Phone application page

Hub and Spoke navigation model

F# XAML Item Templates

Navigating between pages using a hyperlink button

Navigating between pages using NavigationService

Passing data between pages

Summary

7. Windows Phone and Data Access

Data sources

Resource files

Content files

Isolated storage

IsolatedStorageSettings

IsolatedStorageFile

HTTP classes

Summary

8. Launchers and Choosers

Overview of Launchers and Choosers

Launchers

BingMapsTask

BingMapsDirectionsTask

EmailComposeTask

MarketplaceDetailsTask

MarketplaceHubTask

MarketplaceReviewTask

MarketplaceSearchTask

MediaPlayerLauncher

PhoneCallTask

SmsComposeTask

WebBrowserTask

Choosers

AddressChooserTask

CameraCaptureTask

EmailAddressChooserTask

PhoneNumberChooserTask

SaveEmailAddressTask

Summary

9. Windows Phone Sensors

Accelerometer

GPS (location services)

Summary

Index

Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

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Credits

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Reviewers

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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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