[...]... framework was subsequently ported to Windows Phone Once you have installed the Windows Phone developer tools, you can start to build your first Windows Phone application 15 CHAPTER 2  BUILDING WINDOWS PHONE APPLICATIONS Building Your First Windows Phone Application In this section, you’ll build a simple Hello World application using the Silverlight framework Creating the application will provide you with... INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE AND THE WINDOWS PHONE PLATFORM Application Development Life Cycle It’s important to understand the application development life cycle helps you prepare for it In-depth discussion of the application development life cycle, including the certification process, is provided in Chapter 5 Figure 1-6 shows a high-level view of the development life cycle of a Windows Phone application... more Windows Phone devices You can find more information on the release of new Windows phones at www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/buy/7/phones.aspx In the next section, you will learn how the software behind these powerful consumer smartphones provides a great platform for developers Windows Phone Application Platform Microsoft did not invent any new languages or frameworks for the Windows Phone application... work as well • The Windows Phone emulator: This is used to run and test the Windows Phone application • Silverlight for Windows Phone: This is the Silverlight framework for Windows Phone, based on Silverlight 3 technology See Chapter 1 for a description of the subtle differences between Silverlight 3 and the Windows Phone Silverlight framework • Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone: This tool... the Windows Phone controls 13 CHAPTER 2 Building Windows Phone Applications This chapter will prepare you with everything you need to get started with Windows Phone development You will learn about the Windows Phone emulator, Visual Studio 2010 Express, and Microsoft Expression Blend 4 You will use these tools to create your first Windows Phone application Before you can write your first application,... leave complex graphics and animations to Expression Blend 8 CHAPTER 1  INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE AND THE WINDOWS PHONE PLATFORM Figure 1-4 Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator The Windows Phone emulator, shown in Figure 1-5, is integrated with Visual Studio, and it simulates a real Windows Phone device However, there are things that you can’t do in the emulator For instance,... questions related to Silverlight for Windows Phone If you have other Windows Phone related questions, you can visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7series The Windows Phone development team puts out many useful blogs that you can follow at http://windowsteamblog.com /windows_ phone/ b/wpdev/ Of course, there is Windows Phone documentation at MSDN; go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402535(VS.92).aspx... Application template is a template for one-page applications The Windows Phone List Application template uses a ListBox control and page navigation framework to create applications with multiple pages The Windows Phone Class Library template can be used to create a class library that can be referenced by other Windows Phone projects 17 CHAPTER 2  BUILDING WINDOWS PHONE APPLICATIONS 4 For the purposes of this... modes of Windows Phone In the Windows Phone design view window, click the MY APPLICATION TextBlock In the Properties windows in the lower-right corner of the Visual Studio IDE, change the Text property from MY APPLICATION to HelloWorld Notice that the new text now appears on the design surface, as shown in Figure 2-4 19 CHAPTER 2  BUILDING WINDOWS PHONE APPLICATIONS Figure 2-4 Renaming the application... BUILDING WINDOWS PHONE APPLICATIONS Figure 2-1 Creating a new project in Visual Studio 2010 Express 3 From among the three C# templates that Visual Studio 2010 Express displays on its New Project dialog page, select the Windows Phone Application Visual C# template, as shown in Figure 2-2  Note There are three different Windows Phone Visual Studio 2010 Express project templates The Windows Phone Application . Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform 1  Chapter 2: Building Windows Phone Applications 15  Chapter 3: Building Windows Phone 7 Applications. INTRODUCING WINDOWS PHONE AND THE WINDOWS PHONE PLATFORM 9 Figure 1-4. Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator The Windows Phone