Few Popular Development Tools For Windows Phone 7 Application
Windows Phone 7 app development provides an exciting opportunity for companies and
developers to build interactive and attractive applications that are available for the users everywhere.
Technology's successful implementation often depends on its development tools. Good tools help new developers more easily get started and make experienced developers more productive. This guide describes the development tools adopted for Windows Phone 7 application development.
Mobile Application Development Tools
The final version of
Windows phone 7 application development was announced by Microsoft. These tools are included in a single download-able file named as Windows Phone Developer that includes:
new version of Windows Phone emulator,
simplified development environment Visual Studio 2010 Express,
interface constructor Expression Blend 4, and
tools for game application development XNA Game Studio 4.0.
Increasing the Potential of Mobile Application Development
Three control elements in the new set of tools that expand the potential, of the mobile application development are Panorama, Pivot and Bing Maps.
Panorama
Core component of the Windows Phone Design System (codenamed Metro).
Provides the connection between the hubs.
Provides unique methods of working with applications placing various buttons, data and services in the long horizontal outline.
Pivot
Second unique control to Windows Phone 7 app development.
Provides a way to visualize data for customers and give them the ability to filter from one view of the data to another.
Bing Maps
Has free commercial license.
Ability to instantly build a full suite of map functionality with all possible options of modern navigation place search, route calculation, street view, scaling, etc.
While not included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools, other sets of components provided by the Microsoft Advertising teams is Silverlight components, mechanisms for working with outside applications, and Mobile Advertising SDK for displaying advertisements in applications. These can be obtained from various networks of contextual advertising including Microsoft adCenter, InMobi, Millennial Media, and MobClix .
Silverlight Components
The Silverlight components are being released under MS-PL license. There are six controls in total, and these are meant to augment the Windows Phone Developer Tools experience. These six components are: ContextMenu, DatePicker, GestureListener, TimePicker, ToggleSwitch and WrapPanel.
The advantages of the new platform were shown as videos with the key multimedia and network applications. The videos of microblogging service Twitter, the full-length film broadcasting service Netflix, the service of reserving tables in OpenTable restaurants, the service of exchanging opinions about movies Fixster and the service of reserving tickets/ hotels/ cars Travelocity were also offered to the public.
Conclusion
Any application built with a previous version of the tools will fail application certification in the Marketplace. The Windows Phone Developer Tools have gone final, and have been released to the Web creating a milestone in Windows Phone 7 application development.
by: jakson
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