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Loek van den Ouweland posted his next video tutorial showing how to create a Templated ImageButton Control for Windows Phone 7 that holds one Image for the normal state and another for the hover state.

Source: Loek's Blog

In my previous article I showed a video in which I created a Windows Phone ImageButton just using styling & templating. In this tutorial I’ll show how to create a Templated ImageButton Control that holds one Image for the normal state and another for the hover state.

The trick here is to choose the proper property type (ImageSource) so Blend let’s you choose images like this:

Loek van den Ouweland has a video on the Image Button in WP7.

Source: Loek van den Ouweland's Blog

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 has no Image Button control. Of course you can subclass an Image or create a UserControl, but it is much easier through the great Silverlight Styling & Templating. In this video I’ll show you how it’s done.

Loek van den Ouweland has a post and demo on using the background thread on WP7.

Source: Loek van den Ouweland's Blog

When time-consuming operations are executed on the Main Thread on WP7, the user interface can
stop responding to user input and even freeze so it won’t update bindings, visual states or progress bars.