Windows Phone: beginner to expert course

We are pleased to announce that a new Windows Phone training course has been announced, which has been developed almost from scratch and has already been tested for the combat conditions of the evening school on Windows Phone.
Most of the existing courses on Windows Phone have a problem in the lack of balance between the “theoretical” and practical parts, and application examples are often too complicated because they are trying to demonstrate to us the use of technology in a supposedly real environment.
The new course allows the novice (even those with no experience with Silverlight) to learn how to develop applications for Windows Phone using all the most interesting features of the platform. Some topics covered in the course, first published in Russian.

• The first acquaintance with the platform
• Project template, pages and navigation
• Standard Markup Options
• Pivot and Panorama Controls
• Basic controls
• Text fields and input context
• Launchers tasks
• Choice Tasks (Choosers)
• Map control
• WebBrowser control
• Accelerometer operation
• Positioning
• Work with HTTP
• Work with isolated storage
• Introduction to the local database
• The life cycle and state of the application
• Scheduled Background Services
• Background file upload / download
• Background music playing
• Alerts
• Live tiles
• Push notification

The course will be further expanded, and for some parts it will be complemented by video demonstrations.