Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Using Windows Phone Toolkit Transitions

The following steps outline how to add page transitions to your app:

1. Add the Windows Phone Toolkit library to your project via NuGet by opening the package manager console. In Visual Studio select Tools/Library Package Manager/Package Manager Console. At the PM prompt, enter the following command:

Install-Package WPtoolkit

If you receive an error message indicating that the wptoolkit package does not support Windows Phone version 8.0, you need to install the latest version of NuGet from www.nuget.org.

2. Replace the default PhoneApplicationFrame with a TransitionFrame from the Windows Phone Toolkit. To replace your app’s standard PhoneApplicationFrame, modify the App class, either in XAML or in the code-beside, ...