Part 3. Silverlight for Windows Phone

Even though Silverlight for Windows Phone is very similar to Silverlight for the browser, and by extension to Windows Presentation Foundation, there are new controls and concepts found only in the Windows Phone SDK. In Part 3, you’ll learn how to use new Silverlight features to build applications that match the look and feel of Windows Phone.

While you’ve used the ApplicationBar and Pivot controls in sample applications throughout this book, chapter 10 takes a deep dive into these new controls. You’ll also learn about the Panorama control, an essential ingredient for building hub-style user interfaces.

In chapter 11, we show you how to build applications that automatically adjust themselves when the phone is rotated from normal portrait mode into a landscape orientation. You’ll also learn tricks to style common controls to match the Metro design, and how to control the software keyboard. Finally we introduce you to the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone, a Codeplex project from Microsoft that includes additional user interface controls.

In chapters 12 and 13 you’ll work with the MediaElement, Bing Map, and Web Browser controls. You’ll also learn how to use the location service and Bing Map launchers to make a location-aware application.