Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications

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You can now download Expression Blend + SketchFlow templates for developing Windows Phone applications. The templates provide controls styled for Windows Phone 7, including controls based on the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 guidelines, and SketchFlow-style controls modeled on the same guidelines for Windows Phone 7.1 projects.
Design templates for Windows Phone
Note: In order to use the Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone, you need to install the Windows Phone Developer Tools and the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. You can download the Expression Blend design templates for Windows Phone from CodePlex.
The Expression Blend for Windows Phone templates include the most commonly used layouts for Windows Phone applications, including the styles, margins, and custom controls.
After you install the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit and the Expression Blend Windows Phone 7 design templates, you can open the design templates project (WindowsPhone7UXGuide.sln) and then press F5 to build and run the project.
When the Windows Phone Emulator launches, you can click throught the project and vew each of the controls as they will appear in a Windows Phone application.

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