Successor of Window Mobile OS

Let us now look at the Window Phone 7 architecture and development tools:

The architecture of the WP7 application platform comprises of four components and I have listed them here:-

Runtimes.
Tools.
Cloud services.
Portal services.
The Runtime of the Window Phone7 supports Silverlight and XNA frameworks. The apps developed on the Silverlight and XNA frameworks are executable on WP7 with minor changes by adjusting UI for device's screen resolution or making use of device specific features like GPS or Camera. Phone specific components like sensors and media are also incorporated within the runtime of the Window Phone7 app platform.

Tools are the integral part of any mobile OS and the window phone SDK provides the developer fraternity with a suite of several tools that are necessary for application development.

Visual studio- Techies associated with Visual studio will rave about the awesomeness of this IDE. It supports all the quintessential features of the mobile OS like debugger, designer, compiler, packager and many more.

Expression Blend- The user experience teams find this tool very useful as this creates XAML files that can be used in the app directly. Performing tasks independently is a reality with this tool as it resolves the dependencies.

Emulator- This provides closely comparable performance with the actual device and this property lets the developers run or debug the apps prior to testing on the real time mobile device. Capturing screenshots of the app is another bonus on the WP7 emulator.

XNA Game Studio - This is an integrated game development environment used for Microsoft's other platforms like Windows, Xbox 360 and Zune. This tool is now available for WP7 developers. It includes other tools, which are useful for adding graphical and audio content into your game.

Cloud Services: This is the most useful feauture in building power packed WP7 web apps with scalable features. The service associated with the cloud is the MS's push notification service which reduces the burden of polling and consumes less battery power. The location service is a single source to get the position lookup data by making use of Wi-Fi, Cellular and GPS data. This service also includes AGPS, which improves fix for GPS. The other service suite includes Azure, Map, Identity, & Social and Feeds which are supported on the WP7 platform.

Portal Services: Supports the marketplace related activities from a single location. Below is a list of some of the activities that the portal services support:

Registration and validation - Developers can register here for App Hub using their Live ID.

Application submission - This includes a set of online tools for helping developers submit their apps in the Marketplace. Here developers can track their app certification status, provide updates to existing apps etc.

App Billing - Developers can use portal services to sell their paid apps. The marketplace supports mobile operator and credit card billing.

Business Intelligence - This is a dashboard for the apps on the marketplace. This dashboard shows all details about apps such as downloads, reviews, crashes etc.
Windows Phone is a wonderful mobile operating system with its stunning Metro design interface and close integration with Microsoft's products like Xbox, Office and Windows Live. With the Apollo version, windows phone has also started to support many enterprise features and we foresee it will become the leading Smartphone platform for enterprises in the coming days.

As a mobility company Endeavour specializes in the iPhone application development, android application development and Window phone7 development. Being in the mobile space for over a decade, this mobility company has never shied away from experimenting with new mobile OS. Window phone 7 is also embraced and nurtured at Endeavour. The photo editor + app is built for the WP 7 and this has reached a high intensity downloads from the people across the globe.



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