Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft Windows Development Series)

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft Windows Development Series), 9780321752130 (0321752139), Addison Wesley, 2011

I have never owned a PalmPilot. But I have owned palmtops and smartphones. I dived into writing software for a plethora of different devices but never got very far. My problem was that the story of getting software onto the phones was chaotic and I didn’t see how the marketing of software for phones would lead to a successful product. In the intervening years, I got distracted by Silverlight and Web development. I didn’t pay attention as the smartphone revolution happened. I was happily neck-deep in data binding, business application development, and teaching XAML. The smartphone revolution clearly started with the iPhone. What I find interesting is that the iPhone is really about the App Store, not the phone.

It’s a great device, but the App Store is what changed everything, providing a simple way to publish, market, and monetize applications for these handheld powerhouses that everyone wanted. Of course, Apple didn’t mean to do it. When the original iPhone shipped, Apple clearly said that Safari (its Web browser) was the development environment. With the pressure of its OS X developer community, Apple relented and somewhat accidentally created the app revolution.

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