Question

I see that there is not a dropdown/combobox offered in the windows phone toolbox. I can see that there has to be a way to create one because in the settings of the phone, choosing a theme is essentially a dropdown menu.

Does anyone know where I can get sample code how to create one? I have seen a few samples, but the xaml seems really long and complicated. Is it really that difficult to create this control?

Answer 1

You can use the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (You really should be using this). The ListPicker Control will do what you want.

Here is an in-depth tutorial on how to use it: http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/listpicker-for-wp7-in-depth

Here is a description of it (from here):

ListPicker

Comboboxes just aren’t cool in WP7
dev. So use the ListPicker instead.
Two formats available. The first
expands in place to give you options.
Useful for short lists. The second
takes you over to another page witha
full listbox to choose from then
returns to the calling screen. You can
see this in use on WP7 when you change
Settings / Ringtones & Sounds.