Windows Phone 8 Unleashed

Daniel Vaughan is cofounder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company dedicated to creating best-of-breed connected user experiences and leading-edge back-end solutions, using the Microsoft stack of technologies—in particular WPF, Windows 8, WinRT, Silverlight, and Windows Phone.

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development, with commercial experience across a wide range of industries, including finance, e-commerce, and multimedia. Daniel is a Silverlight and WPF Insider, a member of the elite WPF Disciples group, a three-time CodeProject MVP, and is a member of the Microsoft Developer Guidance Advisory Council.

He is a technical advisory board member of PebbleAge, a Swiss finance company specializing in business process management.

He also is the creator of a number of open source projects, including Calcium and Clog.

Daniel blogs at http://danielvaughan.org, where he publishes articles and software prototypes. You also can catch Daniel on Twitter at @dbvaughan.

Daniel has a degree in Computer Science from UNE, where he received various awards, including twice the annual School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Prize, and the Thomas Arnold Burr Memorial Prize in Mathematics.

With his wife, Daniel runs the Windows Phone Experts group on LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/jnFoqE.

Originally from Australia and the UK, Daniel is based in Zurich, Switzerland, where he lives with his wife, Katka, and son Bertie.

Part 1. Windows Phone App Development Fundamentals

1. Introduction to Windows Phone App Development

2. Fundamental Concepts in Silverlight Development for Windows Phone

3. Application Execution Model

4. Page Orientation

Part 2. Essential Elements

5. Content Controls, Items Controls, and Range Controls

6. Text Elements

7. Media and Web Elements

8. Taming the Application Bar

9. Silverlight Toolkit Controls

10. Pivot and Panorama

Part 3. Windows Phone App Development

11. Touch

12. Launchers and Choosers

13. Push Notification

14. Sensors

15. Geographic Location

16. Bing Maps

17. Internationalization

18. Extending the Windows Phone Picture Viewer

19. Camera

20. Incorporating XNA Graphics in Silverlight

21. Microphone and FM Radio

22. Unit Testing

Part 4. Building WP8 Data Driven Applications

23. Input Validation

24. Network Services

25. Isolated Storage and State Preservation

26. Local Databases

27. Connecting to Services Using Near Field Communication

Part 5. Multitasking

28. Scheduled Actions

29. Background File Transfers

30. Background Audio

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