Microsoft Programming Windows Phone 7: XNA Framework Edition 408pages software manual

Bring your game ideas to life - with guidance from a Windows programming legend
Begin creating your own game apps for Windows Phone 7 - guided by the consummate teacher, award-winning author Charles Petzold. Focusing on the XNA 2D framework and the C# language, you'll learn how to extend your existing skills - mastering core concepts and techniques for this new mobile platform. As always, Charles brings a unique combination of pragmatism and inspiration to his instruction - along with a wealth of hands-on examples.

Discover in Programming Windows Phone 7: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition how to:
- Develop high-performance XNA 2D games;
- Create & animate text and sprites;
- Capture & embed bitmaps, balancing performance issues;
- Support multi-touch input - including tap, drag, flick, and pinch;
- Manipulate bitmaps at the pixel level;
- Apply dynamic textures;
- Work with transforms;
- Put components together for touch-&-play and tilt-&-play games;
- Test-drive your game on Windows Phone Emulator;
- Get code samples on the Web;
- For system requirements, see the Introduction.