Transcript SESSION CODE: WPH308 Jeff Wilcox Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft THE SOURCE OF 4TH & MAYOR: CODE, HACKS, TRICKS (c) 2011 Microsoft.

SESSION CODE: WPH308
Jeff Wilcox
Senior Software Development Engineer
Microsoft
THE SOURCE OF 4TH & MAYOR:
CODE, HACKS, TRICKS
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32,000
Marketplace
Installs
Over 8,920,000
“page” views
2,000,000+
check-ins
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Agenda
4th and Mayor
► Tools, Infrastructure, History
► Building a large app successfully
► Interesting application services
► Talking about “Metro” design for geeks
► The Windows Phone Marketplace
► Maintaining, updating, supporting
► Q&A
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Infrastructure, Tools & Planning
► Building a client for a 3rd party service
– V1
– V2 JSON-P
► Tools
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Visual Studio & Expression Blend for WP7
Git
Dropbox
Photoshop
► Frameworks
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DEMO
► Using the Navigation Service the right way
► Building a solution of many assemblies
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Dependencies
► Windows Phone SDK Controls
► Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
► JSON.NET (http://json.codeplex.com/)
► AgFx by Shawn Burke
(http://agfx.codeplex.com/)
► Bing Maps Control (7.0 only)
► My own library of controls, services, and goods
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App Services and Features
► Update Detection & Changelog
► Crash Detection and Reporting
► Web Request Factory
► Marketplace Review Nag
► Navigation-based Analytics
► Push Notification Communications
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Global Frame Services
► “Global” Progress Indication
► Visual overlay support
► New phone transitions implementation
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Horrible bugs and mitigations
► Complying with ingestion requirements
► The “What’s New” bug
► Upgrade testing
► Globalization
► Mitigations might include
– Kill bit
– Update checks
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Custom components
► Photo Viewer
► About Screen
► Static Map
► Grouping / Smart List
Control
► AwesomeImage and
AwesomeScrollViewer
► Geocoding
► Loading Pivots
► Custom button styles
► Tombstone in XAML
► Witty Banter
► Settings provider
► Tombstoning streams
and text
… and more
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“Metro” design for geeks
► 12 is the magic number
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Alignment
Always use text block styles
Beware touch targets
Scroll viewer margins
Flush maps and content
► App bar icon design
– SDK, by hand, open source
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Updating and responding to feedback
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SOURCE DEMO
► 4th & Mayor
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Marketing & Promotion
► Users
► Web site
► Twitter
► Facebook
► Media & Blogs
► Windows Phone Marketplace Promotion
► 3rd party services
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What’s next?
► “To the cloud!”
► Localization
► Implementing new features
► “Mango” release
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Live and secondary tiles
Push notifications
Adding friends a little quicker
Improved user experience
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