What you’ll learn in this lab
After completing this lab, you will be better able to use most of the common controls in a Windows Phone 7 application including: TextBlock, TextBox, Button, HyperlinkButton, and ListBox, use controls specific to a Windows Phone 7 application including: ApplicationBar, ApplicationBarIconButton, PhoneApplicationFrame, and PhoneApplicationPage, you will better understand the overall "Applications" navigation model and specifically the page and frame navigation model within Windows Phone 7 applications, you will better understand how to handle application state information in order to support navigating away from the application and back, you will be more familiar with the new controls available for Windows Phone applications including Pivot and Panorama, understand what Pivot and Panorama controls are, how to use them and when, and finally, create a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application that uses both Pivot and Panorama controls to present content to the user in various ways.

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