Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals
Author: Andrea Boschin
Price: $2.99 
Formats: PDF, Word, EPUB, MOBI. All source code added to the downloadable package.
Number of pages: 46
Release date: January 2012
This e-book collects all 8 parts of SilverlightShow article series 'Windows Phone 7.5', together with source code.
In these eight chapters Andrea Boschin explores key concepts of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), illustrating each of them with examples, and full source code for the demos. You will find a number of options to simplify development tasks on Windows Phone 7.5, as well as add interesting features.
Chapter 1: Local SQL Database How does it work
Mapping entities to tables
Creating the database
Querying the data
Apply indexes
When to use SQL CE
Chapter 2: Accessing your phone
Accessing phone information with DeviceStatus
New Launchers and Choosers
Accessing Contacts and Appointments
Considerations
Chapter 3: Programmatically use the phone camera
Connecting to the camera(s)
Handling the camera orientation
Tune the camera settings
And finally capture a shot...
It's only the first step
Chapter 4: Manipulating camera stream
Accessing the raw stream
Saving the stream to a file
Updated example
Chapter 5: Play with music
The role of Agents
Manage the playlist
Starting the task
When to use Audio Agents
Chapter 6: Use Background agents
Understanding Agents
Create an agent
A funny example
A beautiful opportunity
Chapter 7: Using advanced tiles API
Accessing and changing your tile(s)
Schedule tile updates
Using secondary tiles
Tile your apps.
Chapter 8: Using Sockets
What sockets can do (and what they can't)
Implementing a simple UDP protocol (NTP)
Using the NtpClient
About the author:
Andrea Boschin is a Silverlight MVP from Italy who currently lives and works in Treviso, a beautiful town near Venice. He started to work in the IT relatively late after doing some various jobs like graphic designer and school teacher. Finally he started to work into the web and learned by himself to program in VB and ASP and later in C# and ASP.NET. Since the start of his work, Andrea found he likes to learn new technologies and take them into the real world. This happened with ASP.NET, the source of his first two MVP awards, and recently with Silverlight, that he started to use from the v1.0 in some real projects.
Andrea blogs at http://silverlightplayground.org/ and tweets from @aboschin.