Windows Phone 7.5 Integration Features
The course explores the powerful integration features of Windows Phone 7.5, which let our applications blend right into the phone's incredible native experience
What you'll learn
In this course, we explore the powerful integration features of Windows Phone 7.5, which let our applications blend right into the phone's incredible native experience. Specifically, we take a deep dive into the hot new live tiles, we explore Push Notifications and the way they can greatly enhance both our application's usefulness and attractiveness, and we look at how we can significantly improve our app's discoverability by leveraging the phone's search integration features using AppConnect and Bing Search.
Table of contents
- Intro and contents 1m
- Tiles overview 2m
- Anatomy of a tile 3m
- Hands-on : tile config 5m
- Designing tiles 2m
- ShellTile APIs 2m
- Hands-on : deep link setup 3m
- Hands-on : creating a tile 6m
- Hands-on : retrieving a tile 4m
- Hands-on : updating a tile 4m
- Scheduling tile updates 3m
- Hands-on : scheduling tile updates 5m
- Takeaways 1m
- Intro and contents 2m
- Push notifications in WP7.5 3m
- Push notification setup 2m
- Creating the service 1m
- Hands-on : demo overview 2m
- Hands-on : creating the service 4m
- Registering the phone app 2m
- Hands-on : channel setup 5m
- Hands-on : channel binding 5m
- Sending notifications 3m
- Hands-on : demo features 2m
- Hands-on : building the request 5m
- Hands-on : the desktop client 3m
- MPNS response 2m
- Hands-on : examining the response 2m
- Constraints, best practices 2m
- Takeaways 2m
- Intro and contents 1m
- Bing Search and AppConnect 4m
- Hands-on : Bing search 3m
- Registering for search 3m
- Creating the Extras file 2m
- Hands-on : demo overview 1m
- Hands-on : registering for search 6m
- Launching from searches 3m
- Hands-on : mapping deep links 3m
- Hands-on : handling querystrings 5m
- Hands-on : testing Bing search 1m
- Hands-on : Place and Movie searches 5m
- Hands-on : navigation considerations 4m
- Takeaways 1m
About the author
Yacine has been involved in the development of database-driven, n-tier web applications for over 10 years. Over time he has taken on various roles, including development, project management, offshore platform management and technical consulting. He has helped build a few solutions for Microsoft North Africa. Today Yacine writes and teaches courses covering C#, Silverlight and Windows Phone. He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S... more