Hi guys, saw this interesting free ebook about Windows Phone 7 programming. I did had a quick read and I liked the way its been explained. Download and read it when you get chance.
You can Download PDF for Programming Windows Phone 7 here (38.6 MB)
You can download the ebook's C# sample code here (5.03 MB). And you can download the sample code in Visual Basic for Chapters 1-18 here (5.21 MB). Below are the contents of the Ebook. Enjoy !!! TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I The Basics 1 Hello, Windows Phone 7 Targeting Windows Phone 7 The Hardware Chassis Sensors and Services File | New | Project A First Silverlight Phone Program The Standard Silverlight Files Color Themes Points and Pixels The XAP is a ZIP An XNA Program for the Phone
2 Getting Oriented Silverlight and Dynamic Layout Orientation Events XNA Orientation Simple Clocks (Very Simple Clocks)
3 An Introduction to Touch Low-Level Touch Handling in XNA The XNA Gesture Interface Low-Level Touch Events in Silverlight The Manipulation Events Routed Events Some Odd Behavior?
4 Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures XNA Texture Drawing The Silverlight Image Element Images Via the Web Image and ImageSource Loading Local Bitmaps from Code Capturing from the Camera The Phone’s Photo Library
5 Sensors and Services Accelerometer A Simple Bubble Level Geographic Location Using a Map Service
6 Issues in Application Architecture Basic Navigation Passing Data to Pages Sharing Data Among Pages Retaining Data across Instances The Multitasking Ideal Task Switching on the Phone Page State Isolated Storage XNA Tombstoning and Settings Testing and Experimentation Part II Silverlight
7 XAML Power and Limitations A TextBlock in Code Property Inheritance Property-Element Syntax Colors and Brushes Content and Content Properties The Resources Collection Sharing Brushes x:Key and x:Name An Introduction to Styles Style Inheritance Themes Gradient Accents
8 Elements and Properties Basic Shapes Transforms Animating at the Speed of Video Handling Manipulation Events The Border Element TextBlock Properties and Inlines More on Images Playing Movies Modes of Opacity Non-Tiled Tile Brushes
9 The Intricacies of Layout The Single-Cell Grid The StackPanel Stack Text Concatenation with StackPanel Nested Panels Visibility and Layout Two ScrollViewer Applications The Mechanism of Layout Inside the Panel A Single-Cell Grid Clone A Custom Vertical StackPanel The Retro Canvas Canvas and ZIndex The Canvas and Touch The Mighty Grid
10 The App Bar and Controls ApplicationBar Icons Jot and Application Settings Jot and Touch Jot and the ApplicationBar Elements and Controls RangeBase and Slider The Basic Button The Concept of Content Theme Styles and Precedence The Button Hierarchy Toggling a Stopwatch Buttons and Styles TextBox and Keyboard Input
11 Dependency Properties The Problem Illustrated The Dependency Property Difference Deriving from UserControl A New Type of Toggle Panels with Properties Attached Properties
12 Data Bindings Source and Target Target and Mode Binding Converters Relative Source The “this” Source Notification Mechanisms A Simple Binding Server Setting the DataContext Simple Decision Making Converters with Properties Give and Take TextBox Binding Updates
13 Vector Graphics The Shapes Library Canvas and Grid Overlapping and ZIndex Polylines and Custom Curves Caps, Joins, and Dashes Polygon and Fill The Stretch Property Dynamic Polygons The Path Element Geometries and Transforms Grouping Geometries The Versatile PathGeometry The ArcSegment Bézier Curves The Path Markup Syntax How This Chapter Was Created
14 Raster Graphics The Bitmap Class Hierarchy WriteableBitmap and UIElement The Pixel Bits Vector Graphics on a Bitmap Images and Tombstoning Saving to the Picture Library Becoming a Photo Extras Application
15 Animations Frame-Based vs. Time-Based Animation Targets Click and Spin Some Variations XAML-Based Animations A Cautionary Tale Key Frame Animations Trigger on Loaded Animating Attached Properties (or Not) Splines and Key Frames The Bouncing Ball Problem The Easing Functions Animating Perspective Transforms Animations and Property Precedence
16 The Two Templates ContentControl and DataTemplate Examining the Visual Tree ControlTemplate Basics The Visual State Manager Sharing and Reusing Styles and Templates Custom Controls in a Library Variations on the Slider The Ever-Handy Thumb Custom Controls
17 Items Controls Items Controls and Visual Trees Customizing Item Displays ListBox Selection Binding to ItemsSource Databases and Business Objects Fun with DataTemplates Sorting Changing the Panel The DataTemplate Bar Chart A Card File Metaphor
18 Pivot and Panorama Compare and Contrast Music by Composer The XNA Connection The XNA Music Classes: MediaLibrary Displaying the Albums The XNA Music Classes: MediaPlayer Part III XNA
19 Principles of Movement The Naïve Approach A Brief Review of Vectors Moving Sprites with Vectors Working with Parametric Equations Fiddling with the Transfer Function Scaling the Text Two Text Rotation Programs
20 Textures and Sprites The Draw Variants Another Hello Program? Driving Around the Block Movement Along a Polyline The Elliptical Course A Generalized Curve Solution
21 Dynamic Textures The Render Target Preserving Render Target Contents Drawing Lines Manipulating the Pixel Bits The Geometry of Line Drawing Modifying Existing Images
22 From Gestures to Transforms Gestures and Properties Scale and Rotate Matrix Transforms The Pinch Gesture Flick and Inertia The Mandelbrot Set Pan and Zoom Game Components Affine and Non-Affine Transforms
23 Touch and Play More Game Components The PhingerPaint Canvas A Little Tour Through SpinPaint The SpinPaint Code The Actual Drawing PhreeCell and a Deck of Cards The Playing Field Play and Replay
24 Tilt and Play 3D Vectors A Better Bubble Visualization The Graphical Rendition Follow the Rolling Ball Navigating a Maze
