Kirupa Chinnathambi discusses how to use the Device Panel to make it easier building a Windows Phone 7 application.
Source: Kirupa.com
Unlike desktop and web applications, your Windows Phone applications can be viewed in multiple orientations, can be run in either a Light or Dark theme, and can be customized using various accent colors. Designing across all of these combinations of orientations and looks may seem like a daunting challenge.
While I am not going to dismiss the effort it would take for you to take all of those cases into account when designing your application, there are some features in Expression Blend that can help you out. The one I am going to focus on in this article is the Device Panel.
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