Windows Phone DevelopmentOverview

Valdis Iljuconoks

Lead Technologist, Geta LatviaSoftware Architect

Member of Latvian Microsoft .Net User GroupMicrosoft MVP (C#), ECD

http://dotnet.lv/blogs/vivaldis.iljuconoks@dotnet.lv

http://bit.ly/atmfinder

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Lifecycle

• Type of application• Design and implementation• Resource management• Remote services

Type of application

• XNA or Silverlight?• User interface design• User input and controls• Styling

Design and implementation

• Design patterns• Storage• Phone capabilities• Deactivation and tombstoning• Connectivity• Components and frameworks

Resource management

• Memory• Graphics• Battery• Performance

Remote Services

• Data formats• Security• Push notifications• Data sync• Cloud integration

Lifecycle

• Type of application• Design and implementation• Resource management• Remote services

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Phone Interface

• Application frame, page and content area• Navigation services• Panorama• Pivot• Application bar• Launcher• Chooser• Context menu• Reminder• Toast notification• Live tiles

http://sdrv.ms/wpcheatsheet

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Phone Capabilities• Accelerometer• Camera and Photos• Contacts and Messaging• Device information• Location services and mapping• Media• Push notifications• Search• Sound recording• Sound playback• Touch and Gestures• Vibration Alerts• Local isolated storage• Local database• Web Browser• Windows Marketplace

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Application architecture

• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)

Model

• Domain object models (POCOs)• Base data structure classes• Data containers, DTOs• Service contracts

View

• Silverlight page, XNA frame• SL binding, behaviors and converters

ViewModel

• Supporting classes to connect Model with View

• DataContext of the view

demo

http://bit.ly/wp7skinswitcher

Project structure

• Base library(-ies)• Models (+ repositories and service

façades)• Views (~ View models)• Portable libraries• Unit tests

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Development Resources

• Prism (MVVM platform)• Silverlight for WP Toolkit• Ninject (dependency injection)• Parallel Task Library for WP• Reactive Extensions (Rx)• Moq (unit testing framework)

Agenda

• App development lifecycle• Phone interface• Phone capabilities• Application architecture• Development resources

Paldies!

Valdis Iljuconoks

Lead Technologist, Geta LatviaSoftware Architect

Member of Latvian Microsoft .Net User GroupMicrosoft MVP (C#), ECD

http://dotnet.lv/blogs/vivaldis.iljuconoks@dotnet.lv