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This is THE book for technologies related with data in a Windows Phone application
The Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook covers 99% ways to deal with data with Windows Phone programming. The book does not lose time about C# programming. It goes directly about using data on a Windows Phone.For a beginner, the book can be easily read from start to the end, because the complexity increases gradually. For an intermediate or an expert, you can just pick the topic that you are interested; this is the best thing on a "recipe" style book.Some people might say that 224 pages are not enough to go deep on all technologies, but I can't say it is not a problem because the book contains a lot of website links if you want to go further on a specific topic. The author succeeded to describe complex technology like incorporating SQL database in Windows Phone applications with the help of step-by-step images.From Isolated Storage to Windows Communication Framework, the book contains a lot of recipes that you can get new ideas for your next...
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December 29, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
This book cooks up some excellent recipes
Having written a couple of WP7 applications I was looking for a book that was small, consist, and could take my applications to a whole new data centric level, and this is definitely what I found with Windows phone 7.5 Data Cookbook. I was also after a good reference guide. Don't let the 224 pages deceive you, each recipe in a chapter builds on the previous and each one provides a great example of what it's trying to teach you without getting too bogged down in "boiler plate code".As the synopsis says, I would highly recommend that the reader has some basic knowledge of c# and Silverlight before picking up this book as the book wastes very little time in explaining how to get up and running other than providing links to the required software download. At the end of each recipe the book clearly explains how each application works and also provides web links to msdn and other sites for additional learning. I thought this was a great idea as there is little point...
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December 29, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Over 40 recipes for storing, managing, and manipulating data in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango applications.
- Simple data binding recipes to advanced recipes for building scalable applications
- Techniques for managing application data in Windows Phone mango apps
- On-device data storage, cloud storage and API interaction
In Detail
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango contains support for apps written in Silverlight or XNA. These apps can store data on the device, and also load and manipulate data from "the cloud" and other web services.
This Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook has a range of recipes to help you apply data handling concepts. You will be able to apply the knowledge gained from these recipes to build your own apps effectively.
This Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook starts with data binding concepts at the UI layer and then shows different ways of saving data locally and externally in databases. The book ends with a look at the popular MVVM software design pattern. The recipes contained in this book will make you an expert in the areas of data access and storage.
What you will learn from this book
- Create data binding to user interface elements with any data source
- Create and save user settings to local isolated storage for later consumption
- Explore different on device database options such as commercial Perst, open source SQL CE and Microsoft's SQL CE
- Create and consume simple web services and understand LINQ features.
- Understand REST and call different social media services like Twitter and RSS Feeds.
- Create and understand MVVM model.
Approach
This book is for developers who want to build data-driven apps, or a line of business applications using the Windows Phone platform. It is also useful for developers on other mobile platforms looking to convert their apps to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Basic understanding of C#, XAML and Silverlight is required
Who this book is written for
The book is written in a cookbook style, presenting examples in the style of recipes, allowing you to go directly to your topic of interest, or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain in-depth knowledge.
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Great way to start cooking data in WP7.5
The basic premises of the book is the same as the other Packt `Cookbooks': each chapter consists of several step-by-step tutorials (dubbed "recipes") , each time resulting in a mini-program with full functionality. The main application that is rebuilt each time is a simple task manager. Each chapter 3 or more recipes are shown, usually (re)building the main task application. After each chapter and recipe a short explanation and reference to online sources is given . The book is aimed at developers who have little to no WP7 experience, however a solid Silverlight understanding is a must (for any WP7 developer that is) to get the most from this book. The 8 chapters are logically ordered, each time increasing in complexity. The first 3 chapters (databinding, isolatedstorage and XML) explain topics of which an abundant amount of online tutorials exist. They didn't really add much additional value for people already familiar with the basics of WP7. Though it should be...
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December 8, 2011
(Portsmouth, UK) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4
Great for price for one call!