About this Book
This book is a hands-on guide to building mobile applications for Windows Phone 7.5 using Silverlight, C#, XNA, or HTML5. The Windows Phone 7 operating system is Microsoft’s latest entry into the fiercely competitive mobile market. Windows Phone 7 is not an upgrade of previous mobile operating systems, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 6.5. Microsoft has reimagined what a mobile operating system should be and completely changed the rules on how to build mobile applications.
To power the phone, Microsoft started with familiar foundations in Windows CE the .NET Compact Framework, and the Zune user interface, adapted the Silverlight and XNA libraries, and then added entirely new APIs for interacting with mobile hardware, sensors, and software. In this book we show you how to build user interfaces that adhere to the new Metro design, and how to use the new APIs to access the sensors and integrate with the built-in application.