Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s operating system for mobile devices. And Silverlight for Windows Phone is the primary platform used to build applications for those devices. It enables developers to build cutting-edge phone applications with rich, XAML-based UIs, and it brings the power of managed code to the mobile platform. Furthermore, it enables .NET developers to use the knowledge they already have to build great phone apps without having to learn a whole new toolset.

Mastering Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.1 provides developers with the knowledge and skills they need to leverage Windows Phone 7 to its fullest. It includes in-depth coverage of the run-time, XAML, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone Base Class Library. It also includes coverage of topics that are crucial to building great phone apps, such as tombstoning, multi-touch input, sensor input, the location API, and networking, and it includes in-depth coverage of all the new features of Windows Phone 7.1 (“Mango”), including local database, background tasks, new sensor APIs, secondary tiles, and much, much more.