Straight from Microsoft, both the Silverlight Toolkit and Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit provide the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Toolkit releases include open source code, samples & docs, plus design-time support for the Windows Phone platform as well as the Silverlight browser plugin.
- Download the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
- For Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Development (“Mango”)
- To get started, you need another helping of Mango for Devs
- For Windows Phone 7.0 development, you can still download the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
- Discuss: App Hub forums
This is for Silverlight Plugin Developers
- Download the Silverlight 4 Toolkit
- Silverlight 4 samples
- Discuss: Silverlight.net forums
- A Silverlight 5 build is available here
Blogs & Tweets
Official: Windows Phone Developer Blog
Executives: Scott Guthrie,
Joe Belfiore
Evangelists: Jaime Rodriguez,
Pete Brown
Developers, Designers, Geeks: David Anson,
Dave Relyea,
Jeff Wilcox, Shawn Oster,
Tim Heuer, Jason R. Shaver
Open Source
- We cannot include any source code that you send us through the CodePlex project (through comments, patches, or items in the Issue Tracker). However, we do welcome all feedback.
- Please review the Quality Bands for information on the support and quality level of the toolkit components.
- Microsoft teams looking to use the Silverlight Toolkit can find more information at this internal link
- Feel free to use the source in your apps, controls, and products - have fun!