The document provides an overview of developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform, covering topics such as the Metro design language, the Silverlight-based development environment, common UI controls and patterns, touch and sensor support, and resources for Windows Phone developers. It discusses the Metro design principles, common controls like the app bar and pivot, notifications, and recommended practices for elements like capitalization and page titles. Code samples and resources for learning more about Windows Phone development are also provided.

1. A day in the life of a metro-veloper Ducas Francis Senior Consultant - Readify http://duc.as @ducas

2. Agenda What is Metro? How do I get started on Windows Phone 7? What cool things does it’s API let me do? And why would I come to a Silverlight user group to hear about this…?

3. Application Platform Familiar and inexpensive toolset Cohesive and well designed managed API set Isolated sandbox for each app Runtime services to access cloud services Marketplace for app distribution

4. Architecture Runtime-On Screen Tools Cloud Services Portal Services

6. Dynamic language runtime (DLR)

7. Expression trees

8. HTML DOM bridge

9. JavaScript programmability

10. System.Reflection.Emit

11. Silverlight plug-in object reference

12. Sockets

13. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls

14. WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET)

15. Duplex communication over HTTP

16. JSON serialization

17. RSS and Atom feeds (syndication)What’s supported? Input UI rendering Media Deep Zoom Common language runtime (CLR) Controls Layout Data binding Isolated storage LINQ Networking (HttpWebRequest, WebClient) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) XAML XAP packaging XML serialization

18. Metro Echos airport and metro system signage Clearly direct end users to content Creates a more consistent and fluid UX The guidance docco is over 100 pages long, so here’s what’s important…

19. 3 red threads Personal – your day, your way Relevant – your people, your location Connected – your stuff, your peace of mind

20. 5 principles Clean, light, open and fast Content, not chrome Integrated hardware and software World-class motivation Soulful and alive

21. Status Bar and App Bar Status Bar – displays system-level status info App Bar – provides a place to promote the most common tasks

22. Screen Orientation SupportedOrientations = Portrait Landscape PortraitOrLandscape

23. Push notifications Push Notification Service provides a cloud service with dedicated, resilient, and persistent channel for pushing notifications to devices Toast notifications are system-wide notifications that do not disrupt the user workflow or require intervention to resolve

24. Tile notifications Communicate via counter, background and title

25. Raw notifications In-app notifications generated by the application or sent from a web service.

26. Frame and Page Construction PhoneApplicationFrame top level container PhoneApplicationPage holds discrete sections of content in your application

27. Page title Clearly displays information for page contents

28. Themes Built-in theme resources preserve look and feel of the native device UI

29. Touch input

30. Supported touch gestures

31. On-screen keyboard Slides up from bottom of the screen when an editable control becomes active Slides down off bottom of the screen when a user taps outside of the edit control, scrolls a list, or presses the Back Button Automatically closes if a phone has a Hardware Keyboard Developers can control the input types using InputScope

32. Sensors Accelerometer A-GPS Proximity sensor Camera Compass Light Sensor + FM Radio

33. Panorama application Dynamic visual experiences serving as a starting point for more detailed experiences

34. Pivot control Manages views within an app Used for filtering large datasets, viewing multiple datasets, or switching application views

35. Capitalisation ToLower Page titles List titles List group titles Button or command text List items Example text Links controls in the middle of a sentence ToSentence Check box & radio button labels Progress indicator Status, notification and explanatory text Toggle switch ToUpper Application title Date & time

36. Resources http://developer.windowsphone.com msdn downloads pay to sell your app guidelines social networks

37. Resources http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7

39. Screen Orientation

40. Touch

41. Image Manipulation

42. Sensors & Services

43. Application Architecture

44. Silverlight

45. XNAhttp://charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html

46. Resources http://www.learningwindowsphone.com/

47. Code WP7 Panorama + Pivot - http://phone.codeplex.com Multitouch- http://multitouch.codeplex.com MVVM framework - http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com Flick gestures - http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/flickgesturetrigger Push Notifications – http://blog.duc.as/2010/08/13/push-notifications-in-windows-phone-7

48. Thank you http://duc.as @ducas