Windows Phone - Programming for Advanced

Explore gestures in Windows Phone programming, including tap, double tap, hold, and manipulation events; learn to implement pinch-to-zoom and drag with render transform and composite transform.

Explore Windows Phone sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, magnetometer, GPS, and motion API; learn testing on devices, handling calibration, and managing permissions and battery implications.

Learn to implement Windows Phone notifications, including reminders, alarms, toasts, push notifications, and live tiles. Manage scheduling, navigation targets, and background tasks with secondary tiles and tile updates.

Explore multimedia features in Windows Phone, including media player launcher, media element, sound effects, background audio, microphone recording, and music plus videos hub integration.

Integrate multimedia features on Windows Phone by implementing now playing, history, and new items using media library, pictures hub, and share extensions.

Learn to implement a URI mapper in Windows Phone 7 to control navigation and pass parameters, enabling direct routing to detail pages from media plus videos hub or sharing flows.

Explore Windows Phone 7 camera programming, using the photo camera class to capture images, save them to camera roll via the media library, and apply a grayscale filter in emulator.

Discover how to implement a Windows Phone 7 trial version for paid apps, including normal and trial modes, license checks at startup, and marketplace integration.

Create Windows Phone 7 animations using Blend and Visual Studio, covering keyframes and easing functions. Showcase render transform and visual state manager for flexible, code-driven transitions.

Master debugging Windows Phone 7.5 apps with Visual Studio by using breakpoints, locals, watch, and the immediate window, then step through code and manage exceptions in debug and release modes.

Explore how Windows Phone 7 background agents enable tasks to run when the app is not active, covering periodic and resource-intensive types, background transfers, alarms, reminders, and battery saver limits.

Learn to implement background audio on Windows Phone 7 with a background audio player agent, manage 30-second events, memory limits, and isolated storage, including streaming with media stream source.

Explore the differences between user controls and custom controls for Windows Phone, including when to use each and how to create reusable library controls.

Register with the pub center, add an ad unit, integrate the Microsoft advertising SDK, and display ads in a Windows Phone 7 app, while monitoring impressions and revenue.

Learn to build advanced live tiles on Windows Phone by using bitmap backgrounds, saving to shared shell content, and updating tiles with a timer and button.

Learn how push notifications work on Windows Phone, from registering with the Microsoft push service and managing a single channel per app to handling toast, tile, and raw notifications.

explains data validation in Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight bindings, with IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo interfaces, handling exceptions, data errors, and asynchronous validation.

Build a Windows Phone app architecture that binds views to view models with MVVM toolkit, uses dependency injection, and implements multilingual dictionaries, navigation, and video playback.

Explore building a Windows Phone app with MVVM, binding training lists and details pages, using application bar and navigation service, plus settings and lifecycle management via a simulated server library.

Explore Windows Phone 8's new features, including a Windows 8 kernel, multi-core support, NFC, new resolutions, micro-SD storage, native debugging, in-app purchases, and Nokia maps with caching.