Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone Updated for ‘Mango’
Create better Phone apps with the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (August 2011) add-on. This is a great new release provides extra controls to those in the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK.
For more details, see
- The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is now available for ‘Mango’ application development on the Windows Phone blog
- Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’
The Controls
Here are some new controls you can expect.
- LongListSelector
- MultiselectList
- LockablePivot
- ExpanderView
- HubTile .
- ContextMenu
- ListPicker
- RecurringDaysPicker
- Date & Time Converters
- Page Transitions
- PhoneTextBox
- All error messages and interface elements
Here are some controls that are already in the kit that have been updated too:
- AutoCompleteBox
- DatePicker
- PerformanceProgressBar
- TiltEffect
- TimePicker
- WrapPanel
- Helper code for Gestures
Get the tools
You can download the new release straight from the CodePlex site at https://silverlight.codeplex.com/ - it requires the latest ‘Mango’ developer tools as well.
The release is also available on NuGet as the SilverlightToolkitWP package.
Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation