Building a Bing Web and Image Search App for Windows Phone 7 Using Blend and Silverlight

Want to build a Bing web and image search using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Kirupa Chinnathambi of the Expression team shows you just how to do that in this week's episode. Kirupa covers a lot of topics as he builds the app, including how to:

• wire up the app
• add the image templates
• use the Pivot control
• apply the built in resources to pick up the selected theme in the phone
• use sample data
• template a ListBox's ItemsPanel
• use the WrapPanel from the toolkit
• handle orientation changes of the phone
• customize the ApplicationBar

And Kirupa does all of this through Expression Blend!

Note: The WrapPanel used in this episode was from the Silverlight 3 Toolkit. Today the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit was released, which includes the WrapPanel. Check out what other controls are in the toolkit in John's post.

Relevant links:

• John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
• Kirupa's demo
• List of Theme Resources for Windows Phone for Windows Phone
• ApplicationBar Icon pack for Windows Phone
• Kirupa's blog and on Twitter (@kirupa)
• Get a Bing App ID
• Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools

If you liked this, you might like these Silverlight TV episodes …

• SL TV 40: You are Already a Windows Phone Developer
• SL TV 36: Templating Controls with Silverlight
• SL TV 32: Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4 Transition Effects Fluid Layout and Layout States Silverlight
• SL TV 17: Building a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7
• SL TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight 

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  Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book's web site.