Customizing windowsphone 8 calender control c#

Introduction

Firstly i would like to say very thanks to http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/, here we can get calender control for windows phone,which is can support both windowsphone 7.1 and windowsphone 8 OS.I was really impressed by this open source custom control and i would like to say very thanks to making source code available in codeplex.It will be more helpful for developers to customize calender as per their requirement .By the way i want to share a few things about "How to customize this windowsphone calender control"

Image loader in windows phone 8 ListBox

Introduction

Recently lot of queries has been asked which is regarding to image loader.In general there is a chance of requirement in windows phone  is need to set image loader when image getting from xaml feed or web service responce.Beacuse it will take some time to get our image from the web service and loaded completly.And so from the user point of view we need to put some progress bar or loader for image until it gets loaded completly.However finally i had come up with my best solution with custom progress overrellay.

Customizing Default RadioButton and CheckBoxes with our images in WindowsPhone C#

Generally it is not possible to set default radiobuttons and checkbox border , pressed state colors in windows phone using xaml,So we need to override the template of both radiobutton & checkboxes grid template.And so we may need to make customizable controls in some requirement with respect of our images.And it is best practice for if client want to know control pressed state with proper image background selection. And for our requirement, expression blend is best suitable tool for customizing radio button s as well as checkboxes and off course it is very flexible for generating customizable xaml of our app UI.
Note:
1)This sample is targeted on  windows phone 7.1
2)Here I am using expression blend 2012 which is comes under wp8 sdk.

Customizing default listbox horizontal scrollviewer in WindowPhone C#

Introduction

Generally it is not possible to showing default listbox scrollviewer in windows phone,it will be showing only if user scroll the listbox item.And so we may need to make customizable scrollbar in some requirement.And it is best practice for user want to how many items will presented in long horizontal list. And for our requiremnt, expression blend is best suitable tool for customizing listbox and off cource it is very flexible for henerating customizable xaml of our app UI.

Note:

1)Sample is targeted on  windows phone 7.1

2)Here I am using expression blend 2012 which is comes under wp8 sdk.