Calendar 0.1

I flew to Las Vegas today so I used part of my time on the plane to write a small part of the chapter about the Calendar app. This amounts to about 7 pages in Word, including some placeholder screenshots, so it’s really only about 3-4 pages long. But I’ve plugged in how I think the rest of the chapter will unfold, so it should give you a pretty good idea of where this is heading.

A couple of notes.

This is just the first pass at what could be maybe 20-25 percent of the whole chapter.

It’s rough, of course. I haven’t really edited it in any meaningful way.

I’m using highlighted to text as a placeholder for future hyperlinks/reminders about sections and/chapters that reference other sections that don’t exist yet. There are also a few things I needed to look up, since I was offline when I wrote this.

Take a look, let me know what you think, and feel free to submit any ecomments/requests/questions/whatever. The comments section here is best, but you can email as well if you’d prefer.

Download Calendar 0.1.

Comments

[Keith W]

Very nice start. Well done.

[Sergio]

Hi Paul! Great first version of the chapter.

I have a couple of notes though, in the beginning you say: "Calendar can only work with a subset of the available account types in Windows Phone. These include Microsoft account, Outlook, and Google. The Yahoo! and Other Account types do not provide calendaring information to Windows Phone." However, I'm given the understanding that Facebook also provides events to the Calendar app, which I assume you know because you pointed it out as a part of the chapter towards the ending, so it occurs to me that you phrased it that way by design?.

Another note I would like to make is that the Today button not only returns you to today, but also puts the actual hour in the center meaning that I can scroll to earlier in the day and tap the Today button to return to this hour. :P It's not a big feature but a nice little thing WP does.

Great work! I'm recommending this book to everyone since it's an advance to publishing and it also gets the WP word out there.

[Theo]

Hello Paul,
Like it! Good work. Really. Reads very comfortable. Even learned some things I did not find out yet in Phone 7.5 ...

Especially like the opening that clearly highlights the "this is Windows Phone" part. Also like how you describe this in the passage at the end of the chapter ("Integration is the hallmark of Windows Phone: In many cases you don’t need ..."). I would suggest to keep that in.

Can't wait to read more of this ...
btw: how can we send remarks by e-mail?
- Theo.

PS
- Impressed on how you seem to be able to create something like this in such a short time: imagine that's because you are a writer and I'm not :-)
- English is not my native language - sorry for the "Dutch accent" in this post:-)