This document provides an overview of how to build a Windows Phone 7 app. It discusses app layout and UI, calling web services, navigation and the back button, the app lifecycle, the application bar, submitting apps to the marketplace, monetizing with ads, and additional considerations. It also compares the phone app model to a web app model and explains key Windows Phone 7 concepts like tombstoning, isolated storage, and launchers/choosers.

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2. Got an App idea. Now what?

4. What makes a WP7 app?
Layout and UI
Calling a Web Service
Navigation and Back Button
App Lifecycle and State

5. Application Bar
Tasks - Marketplace
Monetize with PubCenter Ads
Any Additional Gotchas

6. Why Windows Phone 7?

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 transparency

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 Dark and light
 automatically themed
 theme
values

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 http://bing.com/developers
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17. Phone application Web application
Provides UI represented as XAML Provide media represented
pages connected into cross-app as HTTP resources linked
flows by URI’s by URL’s
Web browser
Shell frame
Requests HTTP resources,
Requests pages, renders UI, and
renders them, and handles
handles navigation across apps
navigation across sites
Sessions and back stack History and tabs
Groups together sequences of Groups together sequences of
pages corresponding to a user’s HTTP resources corresponding
activity across apps to a user’s activity across sites

18. Discarded while the session is paused
Page UI
Describes the visual
appearance of a page
Page State
Contains data that
describes an instance of
a page, analogous to
browser cookie Retained in shell frame to support
resuming paused sessions

19. Back Button is important!

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