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.
Windows Phone Toolkit
October 2012
Download on NuGet
Discuss: App Hub forums
Silverlight Toolkit
December 2011
Download the Silverlight 5 Toolkit
Silverlight 5 samples
Discuss: Silverlight.net forums
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.
Feel free to use the source in your apps, controls, and products - have fun!