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Windows Phone devices are pretty much entirely touch-based. While some device flavors may contain a hardware keyboard that you can use, the primary way for you to input text is by tapping on the virtual, on-screen keyboard. 

There is nothing special you need to do to bring up this keyboard. Simply set focus on a TextBox element that is used to receive text input, and your on-screen keyboard will automatically appear.

Someone recently asked about a strikethrough in a TextBlock.  The need was for a short piece of text that was dynamically generated.  I messed with some solutions and came up with the following:

One of the things I needed recently is a simple way to have a textbox that had a watermark in it. Apparantly SilverLight 4 provides it,,, and it doesn’t provide it. Check this post out. I really couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this. ‘Do not use in a Silverlight 4 application.’ and at the same time the supported version is only Silverlight 4. Aaah yes, well the only other solution is to use a watermark textbox someone else has created or to make your own. I opted to make my own.

Silverlight 4 now adds support for MouseRightButtonDown and the MouseRightButtonUp events on all UIElements. The Silverlight Toolkit (April Release) also introduces the ContextMenu control to Silverlight developers. In this article, we will see how to

•             Use the ContextMenu control released in the Silverlight 4 Toolkit
•     Display the ContextMenu on a TextBox by using the new Right-Click mouse event support in Silverlight 4
•    Access the clipboard programmatically (new in Silverlight 4) to do Cut, Copy and Paste operations on a TextBox

Unfortunately, changing the watermark text is not as easy to do as you might think.

The DatePicker control has a template part of type DatePickerTextBox that exposes a Watermark property. You'll see this part declared in the class overview topic of the DatePicker control.

SilverLaw discusses a TextBox style where the text you type in looks like stamped leather.

This TextBox Style is the result of playing around with DropShadow effects on a TextBlock nested in a Border. I ended up in building a TextBox templated style.If you cannot imagine how this style looks like just take a look and be astonished.