Windows Phone 7 Theme-Resources Cheat-Sheet

WINDOWS PHONE 7 THEME-RESOURCES CHEAT-SHEET

Instead of using hardcoded values for your font sizes, margins, and so on in your Windows Phone application, there are a lot of predefined resources already available you can just use.

Not only makes it your developer / designer life easier but it guarantees a consistent layout through all WP7-Apps, as long as you follow the others principle of the Metro design-language.

Of course you could lookup all those available resource-keys in the msdn. But after creating a few apps I was tired of opening my browser and calling my bookmark to the specific page. There are quite a few of the so called “cheat sheets” available for developing / designing applications for Windows Phone 7, but nothing yet for those resources. I have an education as a “Designer of digital and print media, specializing in non-print media operations” so I typeset such a Quick Reference Sheet with Adobe InDesign CS

WP7_Theme_Resources_Quick_Reference_Sheet

Theme Resources for Windows Phone

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ThemeResources if you want to run the application on your device or emulator

Theme resources are used by adding a StaticResource instead of setting the property manually.

<TextBlock Text=”Large text” Style=”{StaticResource PhoneTextLargeStyle}” /> <TextBlock Text=”Normal text” Style=”{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}” />

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769545(v=vs.105).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769552(v=vs.105).aspx