Messaging chapter: First draft complete

The first draft of the Messaging chapter is complete, meaning that the chapter is finished ... for now. (There will always be changes in the future, and each of the first three chapters, in particular, will need to have all their screenshots retaken.)

The first draft version of the Messaging chapter is Messaging 0.5. I'll move along to other content before going back and cleaning up this and other first draft chapters. It's likely that I'll start cherry-picking parts of chapters for a while, but now that Windows Phone 8 is out in the world, there are no issues with regards to what I can write about.

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Messaging 0.4 and Book 0.003

Another small update to the Messaging chapter: This one adds the new section More Messaging: Using Facebook and Messenger, which is complete, plus I've added in two more sections to come, about sending group texts (Groups and Rooms) and using emoticons. I'll add those today or tomorrow. In fact, I should be able to finish this chapter this weekend.

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Messaging 0.3

Just a small update to the Messaging chapter with two new sections, Receiving messages and Managing threads and messages. This one was small enough I didn't update the Book document.

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Messaging 0.2 and Book 0.002

Small update to the Messaging chapter, with sections on Using Messaging, Creating a new message, and Sending a message attachment added. I've still not revved up this up the way I wanted to, so I'll keep working on this for a bit and try to post more tomorrow.

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Messaging 0.1 and Book 0.001

I didn't get as much done on the Messaging chapter as I'd like--virtually nothing, it's mostly just a topics list--but I promised it, so here it is. Also available is the first version of the full book, most of which is of course just placeholders for content to come. But it's nice to see it all in one document, a sneak peek for the future. The book PDF includes the up-to-date versions of the completed chapters (Calendar, Bing Search and Maps) and this first version of Messaging.

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More soon: My intention is to get a bit of this done each day whenever possible.