Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed

233 Summary 247 Chapter 9 Silverlight Toolkit Controls 249 Getting Started with the Toolkit 250 ListPicker 251 AutoCompleteBox 255 ContextMenu 267 DatePicker and TimePicker 273 LoopingSelector 283 LongListSelector 287 PerformanceProgressBar 307 TiltEffect 308 ToggleSwitch 311 WrapPanel 315 Summary 319 Chapter 10 Pivot and Panorama 321 Pivot and Panorama Differences and Similarities 322 Pivot and Panorama Placement in the FCL 324 Using the Pivot Control 325 Using the Panorama Control 343 Things to Avoid When Using the Panorama and Pivot 351 Silverlight Toolkit Lockable Pivot 352 Summary 352 Part III Windows Phone App Development Chapter 11 Touch 353 Handling Touch with Mouse Events 354 Touch and TouchPoint Classes 356 Manipulation Events 359 UIElement Touch Gesture Events 364 Silverlight Toolkit Gestures 368 Designing Touch Friendly User Interfaces 382 Summary 384 Chapter 12 Launchers and Choosers 385 API Overview 385 Choosers and the Application Execution Model 387 Launchers and Choosers in Detail 388 Contacts and Appointments 440 Summary 451 Chapter 13 Push Notification 453 Push Notification Types 453 Benefits of Push Notification 454 Understanding Push Notification 455 Getting Started with Push Notification 457 Subscribing to Push Notification 458 Power Management and Push Notification 461 Sending Push Notifications 463 Toast Notifications 463 Tile Notifications 468 Raw Notifications 474 Identifying Notifications in an HttpWebResponse 478 Notification Classes 478 Cloud Service Authentication 480 Building a Stock Ticker Application 480 Summary 493 Chapter 14 Sensors 495 Sensors Overview 495 Measuring Force with the Accelerometer 497 Measuring Direction with the Compass 508 Sensing Rotation with the Gyroscope 518 Improving Sensor Accuracy with the Motion Sensor 522 Summary 526 Chapter 15 Geographic Location 529 Location Sensing Technologies 530 Geographic Location Architecture 532 Getting Started with Location 533 Testing Apps That Use the GeoCoordinateWatcher 538 Code Driven Location Simulation 539 A Walkthrough of the Position Viewer Sample 541 Sampling the PositionChanged Event with Rx 546 Summary 551 Chapter 16 Bing Maps 553 Getting Started with Bing Maps 554 Sample Code Overview 557 Location Tracking 564 Pushpins 567 Route Calculation Using Bing Maps SOAP Services 573 Summary 594 Chapter 17 Internationalization 595 Terminology 595 Localizability Using Resx Files 596 Dynamic Localizability--Updating the UI When the Culture Changes 600 Localizing Images Using Resx Files 602 The Resx Localizability Sample 603 Summary 613 Chapter 18 Extending the Windows Phone Picture Viewer 615 Debugging Apps That Rely on the Pictures Hub 616 Creating a Photos Extras Application 617 Share Menu Extensibility 631 Using the Windows Phone Connect Tool 641 Summary 643 Chapter 19 Camera 645 PhotoCamera 646 Using the Silverlight Webcam API 669 Summary 676 Chapter 20 Incorporating XNA Graphics in Silverlight 677 Supporting Components 678 Displaying a 3D XNA Model in a Hybrid App 683 Summary 690 Chapter 21 Microphone and FM Radio 691 Recording Audio with the Microphone 691 Controlling the Phone's FM Radio 698 Summary 708 Chapter 22 Unit Testing 709 Automated Testing 710 Introduction to the Windows Phone Unit Test Framework 711 Creating a Test Project 712 Creating a Test Class 714 Tag Expressions 717 Metadata and Assertions 718 A Testable Chat Client 727 Inversion of Control (IoC) 739 Testing Trial Conditions 741 Testing with Launchers and Choosers 743 Summary 744 Part IV Building Windows Phone Data Driven Applications Chapter 23 Input Validation 747 Defining Input Validation 748 Input Validation Using Property Setters 749 Defining Validation Visual States in Silverlight for Windows Phone 752 Asynchronous and Composite Validation 766 Summary 789 Chapter 24 Network Services 791 Network Service Technologies 791 Monitoring Network Connectivity 792 Introduction to OData 797 Consuming OData 797 Using an OData Proxy 802 Building an eBay OData Consumer Application 804 Fetching Data When the User Scrolls to the End of a List 813 Summary 818 Chapter 25 Isolated Storage and State Preservation 819 Understanding Isolated Storage 819 Abstracting IsolatedStorageSettings 826 Building an Automatic State Preservation System 826 Summary 839 Chapter 26 Local Databases 841 SQL Server Compact 842 Deployment of Local Databases 842 LINQ to SQL on the Phone 844 LINQ to SQL Platform Differences 845 Getting Started with Local Databases 845 Sample Twitter Timeline Viewer 846 Viewing a Local Database Schema 873 Database-First Using SqlMetal 878 Deploying a Database to Isolated Storage 880 Abstracting the Navigation Service 883 Observing LINQ to SQL Queries with a Custom Log 885 Updating a Database Schema 887 Mapping an Inheritance Hierarchy 894 Concurrency 899 Summary 902 Part V Multitasking Chapter 27 Scheduled Actions 905 Background Tasks 906 Scheduled Notifications 906 Scheduled Tasks 918 Using a Mutex to Access Common Resources Safely 946 Summary 949 Chapter 28 Background File Transfers 951 Background Transfer Requests 952 Background File Transfer Sample Code 956 Summary 966 Chapter 29 Background Audio 967 Background Agent Recap 967 Background Audio Overview 968 Background Audio Player 968 Representing Audio Files with the AudioTrack Class 970 Creating a Custom Audio Player Agent 970 AudioPlayerAgent Sample 971 Audio Streaming Agents 983 Summary 986 Bibliography 989 Index 991