I just wrote the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth written by Boryana Miloshevska. I mentioned that Windows Phone Toolkit should be familiar to everyone, including many components required for Windows Phone development. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the Windows Phone Toolkit, which is a full-color graphic.
This book includes all the controls in the Windows Phone Toolkit. Whether you are a newbie or an old bird developed by Windows Phone, you must not miss this book! The latest Windows Phone Toolkit fully supports the development of Windows Phone 7.1 SDK ("Mango.
O AutoCompleteBox
O ContextMenu
O DatePicker
O DateTimeConverters
O ExpanderView
O Gestures
O HeaderedItemsControl
O HubTile
O ListPicker
O LocalizedResources
O LockablePivot
O LoopingSelector
O LongListSelector
O MultiselectList
O Page Transitions
O ceceprogressbar
O PhoneTextBox
O WrapPanel
O TiltEffect
O TimePicker
O ToggleSwitch
The author also explains why the book is provided for free:
Point1. First of all, because "Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit" is a FREE library with great controls, provided by Microsoft.
Point2. There is a lot of paid content on the web regarding Windows Phone development and quite a few FREE one.
This was the reason why I founded www.windowsphonegeek.com about a year ago: to create a FREE community with high quality and up to date windows phone
Development content. So having in mind that there is no documentation for the toolkit or any books available, I decided to write and share a FREE one.
Http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/WPToolkitBook