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windows phone application bar icons

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by pedrolamas.com

The Windows Phone 7 development team added a set of 32 icons to the SDK to be used on the Application Bar by developers of external applications.

This  number seemed quite low to get things done, even more after seeing the other icons spread across the native Windows Phone 7 applications (like the “send” icon on the messages, the “attach” icon on the mail app, etc.)

Thus, I now present you a collection of 132 extra icons in comparison to the 32 that comes on the SDK (please click on the image below to get a full size visualization of the collection)

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Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part3: Freezing and Unfreezing tiles

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by WindowsPhoneGeek

This is the third article about the new HubTile control from the latest release of Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK). This time I am going to talk about freezing and unfreezing tiles. It is a good practice, from performance point of view, to freeze the animation of your tiles whenever they are not visible.

NOTE:  For more information about data binding, the key properties, methods, events and the main features of the Windows Phone HubTile control you can take a look at my previous posts:

 

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Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part1: key concepts and API

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by WindowsPhoneGeek

Recently a new version of the Windows Phone Toolkit was released: Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK) . Previously we covered all toolkit components in our 21 WP7 Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls so it is time to continue this series with a few more posts related to the new components that come with Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK) .

We’ll start with two posts that cover all about the Windows Phone HubTile control in details. In Part1 I am going to talk about key properties, methods, events and the main features of the Windows Phone HubTile control.

 

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