NE Code Camp 14 - Introduction to Windows Phone 7 development with Silverlight

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight
John Garland
Senior Consultant
http://blog.dotnetgator.com

www.wintellect.com
What we do
Consulting | Debugging | Training
Who we are
Founded by top experts on Microsoft– Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise and John Robbins – we pull out all the stops to help our customers achieve their goals through advanced software-based consulting and training solutions.
How we do it

Agenda
Phone Basics
Demo – Application Basics
Demo – Navigation
Demo – New Pivot & Panorama Controls
Demo – Application Lifetime
Demo – Launchers & Choosers
Demo – Hardware Interaction
Wrap up

Basics – Overview
Due out for “Holiday 2010”
Hardware RTM’ed on 9/1/2010
Developer Tools RTM 9/16
Marketplace opens in “early October”
Key Concepts
End-User Experience First
Marketplace
Hardware Specification
Development Platform
Simpler than previous experiences
Silverlight 3+, XNA
Emulator or direct phone connection via USB

Basics – Design
Glance & Go
“METRO” Design
Inspired by transportation systems, Xbox, Zune, Media Center
Clean, light, full-bleed, low-chrome
Experience
Home (Tiles)
Hubs

Basics – Hardware
Capacitive touch - 4 or more contact points
Sensors - A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass, Light, Proximity
Camera - 5 mega pixels or more, flash required, camera button required
Multimedia - Common detailed specs, Codec acceleration
Memory - 256MB RAM or more, 8GB Flash or more
GPU - DirectX 9 acceleration
CPU - ARMv7 Cortex/Scorpion or better
Display - 800 WVGA / 480 HVGA
Hardware Buttons – Start, Search, Back

Basics – Silverlight Development
Windows 7 / Vista required
No XP, no Server OS
C# only (VB released as CTP 9/23, no go-live)
Silverlight 3+ phone-specific APIs
HW Integration (Accelerometer, GPS, Camera, Microphone)
Hub Integration
Service Integration
Phone-specific navigation model
Not hosted in a browser window (no HTML Bridge)
Isolated storage – no quotas, no “Site”
Controls enhanced to support touch
Limited access to XNA assemblies from Silverlight applications
MSDN - Differences between SL for WP7 & Windows

Basics – Getting Started
Windows Phone Developer Portal
http://developer.windowsphone.com
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Videos

DEMO – Application Basics

DEMO - Navigation
MSDN Section here

Demo – New UI Controls
Pivot & Panorama
Jeff Wilcox Article
Pivot
“Tab Control” for the Phone
Take tab panels and “smear them horizontally”
All panels are same width
Panorama
Panoramic background, with “views”
Each panel can be a different width
Silverlight Toolkit
ContextMenu, DatePicker, TimePicker, ToggleSwitch, WrapPanel
GestureListener. Provides events for:
Tap, DoubleTap, Hold, DragStarted, DragDelta, DragCompleted, Flick, PinchStarted, PinchDelta, PinchCompleted

DEMO – Application Lifetime
4 Application Events
Launching, Closed
Deactivated, Activated
“Tombstoning”
MSDN – here
YochayKiriaty series @ Phone Dev Blog

DEMO – Launchers & Choosers
Ricky Tan Article

Demo – Hardware Interaction
Assisted-GPS
Accelerometer
Accelerometer Helper Article
Vibration
Camera

What’s Next
Phone Developer’s Site
MSDN Documentation
Team Blog
Petzold eBook
MSDN Code Samples
MSDN Unofficial Windows Phone 7 Controls and Components
Jesse Liberty’s iPhone to WP7 Tutorial
Making apps real, ideas, real devices
Your MS-DPE’s Chris Bowen & Jim O’Neil
2 Day Developer Launch, 10/12 & 10/13 - Royal Sonesta, Boston
BizSpark
Mobile App Match
Guidelines, Rules, and Templates
Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements
Windows Phone UI Design & Interaction Guide v2
Design Templates for WP7
Visual Basic CTP Tools for Windows Phone 7

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