Question

I have recently downloaded Windows Phone Toolkit (November 2011, 7.1 SDK) but I do not see a few icons in my Visual Studio toolbox like Application bar, am I missing some other installations?

Answer 1

Controls (like Panorama, Pivot, AppBar) aren’t in the Toolbox, because they’re not widgets like buttons, text boxes, etc – the compiler treats them differently, and they’re not designed to be ‘placed’ anywhere or used multiple times on a page like widgets are.

Here’s the XAML for the panorama, pivot and app bar, copied from the default projects, for reference;

Panorama

<controls:Panorama Title="my panorama">
            <controls:Panorama.Background>
                <ImageBrush ImageSource="PanoramaBackground.png"/>
            </controls:Panorama.Background>
            <controls:PanoramaItem Header="nearby" Orientation="Horizontal" Width="880">
<!--stuff goes here-->
            </controls:PanoramaItem>
</controls:Panorama>

Pivot

<controls:Pivot Title="my pivot">
        <controls:PivotItem Header="item 1">
            <!-- stuff goes here -->
        </controls:PivotItem>
</controls:Pivot>

App bar

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>
            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
        </shell:ApplicationBar>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>