

Note that Visual Studio gives you some guidelines which help you align your controls. You can either drag and drop the four textblocks from the toolbox or drag one and then copy and paste the other three.ĭrag and drop two Textboxes from the toolbox and name the first one txConvertedFrom and the second one txtConvertedTo.

We need four TextBlocks, two TextBoxes, two drop down lists and one button for our Currency Converter. You can also go to View > Other Windows > Properties Window to view the properties window.Ĭlick on page name and in the properties window Set the Text to Currency Converter and Font Size to 48. If you cannot see the properties window, press Ctrl+W+P. You should see the following environment. You should see this window.įrom Visual C#, select Windows Phone Application and name it SimpleCurrenc圜onverter and click ok. Open Visual Studio 2010 for Phone 7 and from the File Menu, select New Project. Now that you have everything set up, let's start building the currency converter application. You might also want to go through the tutorial in the link to build a basic Phone 7 app to get you up to speed. Michael Crump has a great step by step tutorial on setting up everything you need to develop for Windows Phone 7.
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Backgroundīefore we begin, you need to download and setup the Windows Phone Developer Tools.

We will build a simple currency converter using a converter web service from start to finish for the Windows Phone 7 using Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 for Windows Phone.
