WPdev for beginners

Inspired by the DateTime classes I was writing about in my previous blog entry, I had the idea for an application. I immediately started working on it. First of all I needed the possibility to pick a certain date. VS2010 did not offer me such a thing, so I did some searching and eventually I asked someone who is an expert in this area. Anyway, I found out about this  Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit – Nov 2010, downloaded and installed it.

Now I just have to right-click the mouse inside my toolbox and select “Choose Items…”. A window pops up, where I can choose quite a few more controls.

As you can see, I selected DatePicker. After clicking the OK button, this control is added to my toolbox where I now can drag and drop it to my recent project:

To be continued…