Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 11. Integrating with Windows Phone Hubs

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Introducing the Windows Phone hubs

• Integrating with the Music + Videos hub

• Integrating with the Pictures hub

Hubs are an experience unique to Windows Phone and organize various applications into consolidated groups of information. The user-interface experience presented by the Windows Phone hubs is “distinctly Metro” and uses the Panorama control to its fullest. One hub typically contains several logical application “layers” that are related. For instance, the Music + Videos hub has songs, playlists, a music marketplace, and other related applications. Some hubs, such as the Music + Videos and Pictures hubs, offer integration points, which allow your own applications ...