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101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50
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About the Author
Adam Nathan is a principal software development engineer for Microsoft, a best-selling technical author, and arguably the most prolific developer for Windows Phone. Adam previously cofounded Popfly, Microsoft’s first product built on Silverlight, named one of the 25 most innovative products of 2007 by PCWorld magazine. He is also the founder of PINVOKE.NET, the online resource for .NET developers who need to access Win32.
Adam has created several top apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace that have been featured on Lifehacker, Gizmodo, ZDNet, ParentMap, and various Windows Phone enthusiast sites. Many of them are identical to or based on apps in this book. Chapter 36’s Sound Recorder app was featured on MSDN’s first Channel 9 “Hot Apps” show. With the purchase of this book, the same app is now yours to tweak and sell!
Adam’s books have been considered required reading by many inside Microsoft and throughout the industry. Adam is the author of Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed (Sams, 2008), WPF Unleashed (Sams, 2006), WPF 4 Unleashed (Sams, 2010), and .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (Sams, 2002); a coauthor of ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams, 2001); and a contributor to books including .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005), and Windows Developer Power Tools (O’Reilly, 2006). You can find Adam online at www.adamnathan.net or @adamnathan on Twitter.
12/05/2011
, and I think he may be my new favorite technical author. I feel like I want to get this book for all my friends!
19/04/2011
as soon as they become available to help with programming for gestures.
The downloadable code is sweet. It contains some copies of applications the author has published to Windows Phone Marketplace. There is a fully functioning application for each chapter.
The book is in full color so it is a pleasure to read. The author has a great writing style. I haven't put the book down since it arrived. The one problem you will have is that a lot of the applications are simply fun to play, so you may find yourself getting side tracked. I have been bugging my dog with the talking parrot sounds and been playing darts a lot. This is by far the most fun I have had reading a book in a long time!!!!
With Mango just around the corner, now is the time to get up to speed on Windows Phone. This book makes it a pleasure to learn the platform.
All in all, if you are interested in Windows Phone development at all, this book is a must have!!!! It will definitely become a classic. This is one of the best programming books I own, and I own a lot of them.
15/04/2011
A book that teaches you how to learn a language/platform/whatever is always a good book, but a book that teaches you how to learn those things with examples is a really good book.
The best way to learn is with examples, with practice. You can read a bunch of paragraphs on how to use something but you will forget what you've read if you don't put it into practice in that moment.
Adam knows that and he made a book where EVERYTHING is practice and you're learning as much as anybody else.
There is not much to say, you have to get this book, open it and enjoy. My aim was to start seriously with WP7 dev in the summer but... I bought the book and yay, I can't stop reading it.
So, if you want to learn WP7 development, THIS is the book, so go and buy it and wait for the next volume that will be awesome too.
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