Windows Phone 8 Unleashed

Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish developer's guide to Microsoft's brand-new Windows® Phone 8. Written by Microsoft MVP and leading Microsoft mobile development expert Daniel Vaughan, this full-color guide covers everything Microsoft developers need to rapidly build highly-competitive WP8 mobile apps.
 
Vaughan teaches through complete sample apps that illuminate each key concept with fully-explained code and real-world context. He presents real-world best practices for building highly functional and attractive WP8 interfaces; integrating touch, rich media, and data; testing, profiling, and publishing apps, and more. Throughout, he shares expert insights available in no other book, drawing on his exceptional access to the Windows Phone development team. Along the way, he presents exceptionally practical and thorough coverage of many powerful new WP8 enhancements, including:
 
* Voice Commands
* Wallet integration
* New Live Tile Capabilities
* Nokia Maps Control
* File and Protocal Associations
* And much more

Daniel Vaughan is cofounder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company dedicated to creating best-of-breed connected user experiences and leading-edge back-end solutions, using the Microsoft stack of technologies—in particular WPF, Windows 8, WinRT, Silverlight, and Windows Phone.

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development, with commercial experience across a wide range of industries, including finance, e-commerce, and multimedia. Daniel is a Silverlight and WPF Insider, a member of the elite WPF Disciples group, a three-time CodeProject MVP, and is a member of the Microsoft Developer Guidance Advisory Council.

He is a technical advisory board member of PebbleAge, a Swiss finance company specializing in business process management.

He also is the creator of a number of open source projects, including Calcium and Clog.

Daniel blogs at http://danielvaughan.org, where he publishes articles and software prototypes. You also can catch Daniel on Twitter at @dbvaughan.

Daniel has a degree in Computer Science from UNE, where he received various awards, including twice the annual School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Prize, and the Thomas Arnold Burr Memorial Prize in Mathematics.

With his wife, Daniel runs the Windows Phone Experts group on LinkedIn athttp://linkd.in/jnFoqE.

Originally from Australia and the UK, Daniel is based in Zurich, Switzerland, where he lives with his wife, Katka, and son Bertie.