In this blog post, Jeff Wilcox introduces the panorama and pivot controls and explains how they appear from a simple API & XAML perspective.
Apps in Windows Phone 7 make it easy to explore and experience information thanks to two similar navigation controls: panorama and pivot controls. We’ve made it easy for developers to build applications with these experiences by putting these Silverlight controls and associated tooling in the next release of the free developer tools (didn’t make the beta).