Preface
Windows Phone OS is Microsoft’s new mobile phone operating system. It is a substantial departure from Microsoft’s previous Windows Mobile technology, as it provides the capability to develop applications for the mobile phone using either Silverlight or XNA. Silverlight, in particular, is a technology that has seen rapid adoption for multimedia web development and desktop line of business applications. Extending the Silverlight development experience to the phone was welcome news to many Silverlight developers because it opened up many exciting opportunities. Silverlight’s key advantage is that it brings increased productivity to developers.
Windows Phone offers developers the opportunity not only to target the phone OS but also to build ...
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