Questions tagged [windows-phone-toolkit]

Windows Phone Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. WPToolkit releases include open source code, samples & docs, plus design-time support for the Windows Phone platform.

Windows Phone Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. WPToolkit releases include open source code, samples & docs, plus design-time support for the Windows Phone platform. Here is the official site for this http://phone.codeplex.com/

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ArgumentException when styling ContextMenu template

I'm trying to override the default template for the Windows Phone Control Toolkit ContextMenu control. When I copy and paste the Style (without modification) from Generix.xaml in the Toolkit source code and run, on long press I…
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ExpanderView port to Windows Store Universal App

As the title indicate, i'm trying to port ExpanderView from windows phone toolkit and use it with windows store universal app ie. WinRT. After re-writing all the necessary classes from Phone:Toolkit into my app, I just founded that the Header of the…
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The 'await' operator can only be used within an async lambda expression Windows Phone 8

I am calling async method on demised of CustomMessageBox left button click. But its giving me complie time error. I googled for it but get some information regarding MessageDialog.Command. How I will achieve same in windows phone…
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Windows PhoneToolkit ListPicker: implementing a countries list as in the settings?

I have a list of countries that I want to display in a list similar to that in the phone settings app I tried using the toolkit's ListPicker but it had a poor performance in loading as the list size is large, it seems that this is a known issue…
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listPicker WP 8 selectionChange?

I created listpicker with windows phone toolkit with this code :
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Bing Maps GetRoute gives '0x8004231C' error

I'm trying to show a route from point-to-point on the bing-maps (testing on real device). I've entered 2 waypoints (GeoCoordinate) and I'm trying to get the route via the Windows PhoneToolKit using the await query.GetRouteAsync(). Unfortunately, I'm…
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Visual Studio 2012 Crashes while deploying windows phone application

I am developing a windows phone application and trying to deploy it on Emulator as well as Actual device, whenever I hit debug button Visual Studio crashes and restarts. I also tried o run it with admin privileges. I have checked event logs and the…
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Context Menu Keep Getting Wrong Object using Mvvm

I am making a winodws 8 phone application and trying to have a context menu on it from the Windows Phone tool kit. I been following this tutorial but instead of list box I am using a long list selector that is built into WP8
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Windows phone wrapPanel does not exist error

I have a xaml which has the following code. Now the error says that The name wrappanel does exist…
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Windows phone 8 LongListMultiSelector dynamically select items

How to dynamically (in code behind) select few items in Windows Phone Toolkit's LongListMultiSelector. The property SelectedItems has no setter. My code: private async void GetGenres() { var genres = await…
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Toolkit expander header background change

I have to change the background of the tool kit expander header on click and I must revert to the original background color on expand. Visual state manager what i included in code is working fine for hyperlink button. What should I do to make it…
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Windows Phone Listpicker Selected Item not highlighted in FullScreen mode

I am using the Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit in my Windows Phone 8 project. There is this control named list picker which is the substitute for the conventional dropdownlist control in windows phone. When the number of items in the list is more…
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Is there a way to define different foreground colors in my CustomMessageBox from WindowsPhone 8 Toolkit?

I was wondering, whether it is possible to style the CustomMessageBox from Windows Phone 8 Toolkit more precisely? In this case, I'd like to have different foreground colors for the Caption and for the actual Message / the button text/border. Can I…
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