Question

I’m just starting with windows phone development and was trying to get the datePicker to work. Searching for tutorials, all seem to be pointing to a reference to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows
Phone\v7.0\Toolkit\Nov10\Bin\Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit.dll

The problem is that i don’t have this file (and after a computer search this file doesn’t exist at all in my computer) so after looking some more, a found this link that says that i must install the toolkit. This seems quite not right(i was thinking this feature was fully integrated, not a alternate design being such a key-feature).

Analysing the feed i got from google, those link are pretty old(september – november 2010). Has Microsoft redesigned the method to acces dataPicker or is this method still the current official one?

Answer 1

I’m not fully sure of the reason but from the codeplex page:

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.

The easiest way to pick and choose what components to install is probably via NuGet.
http://nuget.org/List/Packages/SilverlightToolkitWP