Silverlight For Windows Phone Toolkit. Free E-Book

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth

Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit

In Depth
by Boryana Miloshevska

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Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth

About the Author
Boryana Miloshevska is a software developer with more than 6 years of professional experience with .NET technologies. She is a co-founder ofwww.windowsphonegeek.com - one of the biggest windows phone development communities. She is also working as a consultant in the areas of Silverlight and Windows Phone application development. What else? Active blogger and tech enthusiast trying to contribute to the windows phone development community in various ways. Author of more than 300 development articles, tutorials and guides related to Silverlight andWindows Phone 7 technology most of which published on www.windowsphonegeek.com . MCTS, MCPD Web and Desktop development Winner of the Microsoft “Engineering Excellence Achievement” Award MSc Computer Science MSc Technology Entrepreneurship (UCL , London UK)

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Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth

Table of Contents
About the Author.................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 10
Who is this book for?.............................................................................................................................. 10 What this book covers? .......................................................................................................................... 10 How is this book structured? .................................................................................................................. 11 Sourcecode............................................................................................................................................. 12 What else? .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Why did I decide to write this FREE e-book? .......................................................................................... 12

Introduction to Silverlightfor Windows Phone .................................................................... 14 Introduction to Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit ......................................................... 17
Components included in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit ..................................................... 17 What's included in the source code?...................................................................................................... 18 Suggestions? Features? Questions? ....................................................................................................... 18 Official Blogs & Tweets ........................................................................................................................... 19 What else will you need?........................................................................................................................ 19 Getting Started with the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit ........................................................... 20 Option1: Install the Windows Phone Toolkit .msi .................................................................................. 21 Option2:Download the “Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit Source & Sample - Aug 2011.zip” ..... 24 Option3: Download only the XAP file ..................................................................................................... 26 Option4: Install Windows Phone Toolkit using NuGet ........................................................................... 26 How to use unofficial...