Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Preface

Welcome to the second in the series of Windows Phone Unleashed titles. This book extends the previous book, Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, and provides new content covering the terrific new features of the Windows Phone 8 SDK. The Windows Phone 8 SDK builds upon the strong foundation of the previous SDK for creating XAML-based apps. If you read Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, you will find much of the content familiar. The content has, however, been updated across the board to cover changes in the 8.0 SDK, of which there are many. You also will find seven new chapters covering the new features of the 8.0 SDK.

Although the scope of this book remains squarely on building XAML-based apps, there have been some major changes to the other UI technologies ...