Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

This Windows Phone 7 Training Kit will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.

Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications.   With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace.   This Training Kit will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.

- Hello Phone- Building Your First Windows Phone Application- Windows Phone Navigation and Controls- Using Push Notifications- Launcher and Choosers- Application Lifecycle- Using Bing Maps- Using Pivot and Panorama Controls  XNA Framework Labs:- Game Development with XNA Framework- Catapult Wars Lab - A 2D Physics Game- Using Choosers and Handling Tombstone in XNA Framework Games- 3D Game Development with XNA Framework

Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit offers you two sets of hands on labs for Windows Phone 7.5 application development. These are packages that support a full offline installation of the labs that are available live online.