Bill Hughes - Windows Phone 7 Application Development for Dummies

Windows Phone 7 Application Development For Dummies

by Bill Hughes and Indrajit Chakrabarty

Windows Phone 7 Application Development For Dummies

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About the Authors

Bill Hughes: Bill is an experienced marketing strategy executive with over two decades of experience in sales, strategic marketing, and business development roles at several leading corporations, including Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Motorola, and US West Cellular.

Recently, Bill has worked with Microsoft to enhance its marketing to mobile application developers. He also has led initiatives to develop new products and solutions with several high-tech organizations, including Nextel, Motorola, SBC, and Tyco Electronics.

Bill has been a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he taught business marketing to MBA students. In his lectures, he presented his findings on the validity of the market research information used in financial analysis. Bill has written articles on this subject for several wireless industry trade magazines. He also has contributed to articles in USA Today and Forbes, based upon his research reports written for In-Stat, where he was a principal analyst covering the wireless industry, specializing in smartphones and business applications of wireless devices. His most popular studies include The Symbian Foundation: A Battle Royal for the Ecosystem, Wireless Data in the Enterprise: The Hockey Stick Arrives, and Cellphone Trends in U.S. Enterprises: A Small Step from Personal Wireless.

Bill graduated with honors with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a bachelor of science degree with distinction from the College of Engineering at Cornell University, where he was elected to the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary.

He lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his wife, Susan, and three sons, Ellis, Arlen, and Quinlan.

Indrajit Chakrabarty: Indy is a software architect and developer with over 15 years of experience working in several multinational corporations around the world. He is a self-confessed techie and geek, working extensively with the latest technologies from Microsoft such as ASP.NET MVC, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7.

Indy currently works as a consultant on Microsoft .NET and Voice over IP (VoIP). He is the owner and principal of a Micro-ISV, Liana Solutions (www.lianasolutions.com), and is available for consulting opportunities around the world.

Indy lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Tiya, and daughter, Liana. He is often seen taking photographs of landscapes and flying around the countryside in single-prop aircrafts.

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my late mother, Marcia G. Hughes, M.D.

Bill Hughes

I would like to dedicate this book to my lovely ladies, Tiya and Liana.

Indy Chakrabarty

Authors Acknowledgments

We need to thank a number of people who helped make this book a reality. First, we want to thank the team at Wiley Publishing, including our acquisitions editor, Katie Mohr, and our project editor and copy editor, Elizabeth Kuball; we sincerely hope that your patience is rewarded. We also want to thank Steve Ballmer for his support in getting the attention needed to get this book off top dead center.

Bill would like to thank his literary agent, Carole Jelen, of Waterside Publishing, for her support, encouragement, knowledge, and negotiation skills.

Indy would like to thank Bill, for accepting him as a co-author and mentoring him throughout the project. He would also like to thank Carole Jelen, of Waterside Publishing, for introducing him to Bill and Wiley and for helping him with the formalities.

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