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How do I use the additional Silverlight Toolkit controls?

I've got VS2010 installed, I've downloaded the Windows Phone add-in and the Silverlight Toolkit from CodePlex, but I cannot work out for the life of me how to actually use the controls in a Windows Phone 7 application...

How do I add the controls into the toolbox, or link them so that the XAML doesn't give me errors all the time? For instance, using the Viewbox - the controls aren't implemented, and the XAML does not compile.

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Did you add a reference to the Silverlight Toolkit assembly in your project?

By the way, Jeff Wilcox has a comprehensive overview of the Silverlight Toolkit controls that work on Windows Phone.

Andréas Saudemont  2010-05-07 21:10:53
No - But as you posted that answer, I found the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Toolkit\Apr10\Bin folder on my PC and have add ALL of the .dlls to my project and the code and I still don't have access to them. Please explain more, in the manner that you'd give your mother the instructions. Thanks!
Brett Rigby  2010-05-07 21:25:35
Would [this post by Brad Tutterow](http://www.codebadger.com/blog/post/2010/03/20/Using-the-WrapPanel-from-the-Silverlight-Toolkit-on-Windows-Phone-7.aspx) be clear enough? It targets version 3 of the Silverlight Toolkit, but I guess it's still relevant for version 4.
Andréas Saudemont  2010-05-07 21:46:00
Not sure my post was very comprehensive. Unfortunately v4.0 toolkit won't work on the phone, since it is based on a derivative of Silverlight 3 for now.
Jeff Wilcox  2010-05-11 08:49:13
+3  A: 

You're probably running into this bug:

http://www.manyniches.com/windows-phone/signed-assemblies-bug-in-the-windows-phone-tools-ctp-refresh/

The Silverlight toolkit wasn't working for me after the April Update.

vidalsasoon  2010-05-07 22:07:21
Indeed this is most likely the issue - as it is possible to get most SL3 controls to work this way.
RoguePlanetoid  2010-05-08 13:17:59

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