Windows Phone Toolkit

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Yordanpavlov - Free ebook: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

There is a very good free e-book that covers all toolkit controls by WindowsPhoneGeek.com here:

http://windowsphonegeek.com/WPToolkitBook

yordanpavlov 18:00, 12 November 2011 (EET)

Hamishwillee - Yordanpavlov - THANKS!

Hi Yordanpavlov

Thanks very much for that link! I've created a book page for it, and linked to it in the text.

I'll delete this set of comments in a few weeks (leave it here now to give you a chance to see this)

Regards

Hamish

hamishwillee 04:58, 16 August 2012 (EEST)

Yordanpavlov - 21 Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls

For those of you who would prefer to read the excellent Windows Phone Toolkit articles by WindowsPhoneGeek in your browser, here is a list of them:

http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/21-WP7-Toolkit-in-Depth-articles-covering-all-controls

yordanpavlov 13:46, 21 October 2012 (EEST)

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See Also

• Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (EBook)
• 21 WP7 Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls (windowsphonegeek.com)

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Code Example

Source file: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets

Installation file: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases

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Tested with

SDK: Windows Phone 7.1 SDK

Devices(s): Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia Lumia 710

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Compatibility

Platform(s): Windows Phone

Device(s): Nokia Windows Phone devices

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Article

Keywords: silverlight, toolkit, windows phone

Created: digitalsurgeon (27 Oct 2011)

Updated: hamishwillee (24 Apr 2012)

Last edited: hamishwillee (23 May 2013)

Introduction

The The Windows Phone Toolkit (formerly the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit) provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Toolkit releases include open source code, samples & docs, plus design-time support for the Windows Phone platform.

The main reason that this toolkit is not part of the SDK is so that the controls and the source code can be updated with much faster pace and is not therefore dependent on the SDK releases. Bugs are fixed faster.

The current release is September/October 2012 targeting the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. There is a free ebook that explains all the controls up to the August 2011 release; this article provides highlights of all releases.

With the latest release the toolkit distribution has been moved to NuGet. You first have to install Nuget the NuGet Visual Studio extension and then the Windows Phone Toolkit via the NuGet command prompt from [1].

What's included in the toolkit

A lot of user interface controls along with their source code are included in the toolkit. The links below contain release notes.

• Windows Phone Toolkit - September 2012
• Windows Phone Toolkit - Nov 2011 (7.1 SDK)
• Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK)

The following sections provide a summary of just new components in the releases

September/October 2012 release

• New control CustomMessageBox
• New control Rating
• New transition effects
• Updated control templates to more closely match the 1st party experience
• Shortened the product name to just "Windows Phone Toolkit"
• Moved to a pure NuGet or source distribution model

November 2011 release

New components

• ListPicker once again works in a ScrollViewer
• LongListSelector bug fixes around OutOfRange exceptions, wrong ordering of items, grouping issues, and scrolling events. ItemTuple is now refactored to be the public type LongListSelectorItem to provide users better access to the values in selection changed handlers.
• PerformanceProgressBar binding fix for IsIndeterminate (item 9767 and others)
• There is no longer a GestureListener dependency with the ContextMenu, WrapPanel, and ListPicker
• The GestureListener should be considered deprecated for all Windows Phone 7.1 SDK development. There is no direct replacement at this time, though the platform now supports events such as Tap right on visual elements.

August 2011 release

New components

• Smooth new LongListSelector designed for Windows Phone 7.5
• MultiselectList
• LockablePivot
• HubTile
• ExpanderView
• LocalizedResources
• DateTimeConverters
• DateTimePickers
• HeaderedItemsControl
• PhoneTextBox
• Improved Transitions performance
• Improved ContextMenu performance
• ListPicker supports multiselect
• Various bug fixes

The components release in earlier releases are:

• AutoCompleteBox
• ContextMenu
• DatePicker
• DateTimeConverters
• DatePicker
• ExpanderView
• GestureService/GestureListener
• HeaderedItemsControl
• HubTile
• ListPicker
• LocalizedResources
• LockablePivot
• LongListSelector
• MultiselectListPage
• Transitions
• PerformanceProgressBar
• PhoneTextBox
• TiltEffect
• TimePickerToggle
• Switch
• WrapPanel

Source code

The toolkit comes with source code, there fore you can learn more from the code, and if you find any bugs you can fix them yourself. The license used by the toolkit is Open Source Microsoft Public License.