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Jeff Wilcox makes a quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations.

Source: The blog of Jeff Wilcox

Today Will Faught from the Silverlight Toolkit team blogged about the transitions built into the latest release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. Good stuff (Will was the developer for this feature).

In case you haven’t opened up the sample app that came with the phone kit, and just want to see at a basic level what these different transition animations are, I built this quick Silverlight app to show them to you.

In part 4 of his Windows Phone from Scratch series, Jesse Liberty takes a look at XAML for the first time.

Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

In the previous mini-tutorial in this series you created a form in which you placed a prompt and text box for the first name using Expression Blend and drag and drop. It was probably not obvious that as you created columns and rows and as you dragged controls onto the form, Blend was creating Xaml code for you that represented your design.

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Cheryl Simmons announces the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit November release.

Source: Silverlight SDK

Imagine my surprise when I browsed to the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit page on Codeplex and discovered a new version was released today. There are some great new controls in the release:    

    - AutoCompleteBox – Very similar to the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox I know and love

    - ListPicker – Similar to a ComboBox control; shows a selected item and allows a user to choose a new item from a list

David Anson also announces the second release of the Windows Phone Toolkit.

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Source: Paul Sheriff's Blog

Developing for Windows Phone is easy if you have been doing any XAML at all. That’s because you use Silverlight for Windows Phone development! This is a great thing because everything you already know you can apply immediately. Let’s take a simple example like presenting a list of products with images in a list box (Figure 1) in the Windows Phone emulator. This article assumes that you have VS.NET 2010 and the Windows Phone tools installed along with it. The Windows Phone tools must be downloaded separately and installed with VS.NET 2010. You may also download the free VS.NET 2010 Express for Windows Phone developer environment.

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In this post, you will find some tips on using Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone.

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

Building great applications, that’s the goal we all aim for. Apps that are fluid and beautiful, easy to use, robust, well architected, and above all delight our users. The release of the RTM versions of the Windows Phone Developer Tools on September the 16th provides you with the tools that when combined with your skills make this possible. It starts with the intelligent installer that only installs the components you need making sure whether you’re a power user, or you’re a new user, you have the tools you need installed quickly and easily.

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Source: Kodierer

Pictures Lab is the ultimate picture effects application for Windows Phone. If you like to take photos then this app is a perfect addition to your phone’s toolset. Or like msnbc.com wrote: "The app, a Swiss Army knife of photo tweaks".

Pictures Lab comes with more than 20 controllable and easy-to-use advanced effects like different vintage and hipster-like effects, Tilt Shift (miniature faking), Lomo, Soften, Auto Adjust, Sharpen, Comic, Bulge, B & W, Sepia and many more.

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Source: John Papa's Blog

Sometimes your code runs on a background thread, for example, and you need to do something to the UI. But you are on the background thread and can’t affect the UI from there, so what do you do? You use the Dispatcher (or SynchronizationContext class) to help you get back to the UI thread. There are several ways to do this, but the most common one I use is via a SmartDispatcher class I created recently.

Source: Kodierer [Coder]

The final Windows Phone Developer Tools have been released and the launch date is not far away. It's time to finalize the apps.

Windows Phone has some tough hardware requirements, but it's still a mobile platform with limited resources. In this blog post I'll describe how to determine the current memory usage, what the allowed maximum is to get your app approved for the Marketplace and other constraints a developer should be aware of.

Source: Delay's Blog

As with the rest of the Phone Toolkit, our primary goal was to make it easy for developers to match the core Windows Phone 7 experience in their own applications. Toward that end, adding an instance of DatePicker or TimePicker to a page gives the same "small button expands to full-page date/time picker with infinite scrolly thingies" experience that's found in the core Settings, Calendar, and Alarms applications. But sometimes you want to do things a little differently, and maybe you've got a date/time picking interface in mind that's more relevant to your scenario...