I’m also pleased to announce that we’re extending the popular Silverlight Toolkit concept to include Windows Phone 7 components as well, with a dedicated release that will be available to download here.

The Windows Phone 7 Toolkit includes the following additional Silverlight controls and components that are customized for the Windows Phone 7 experience:

ContextMenu

DatePicker

TimePicker

WrapPanel

ToggleSwitch

GestureService – adds events for Tap, DoubleTap, Hold, Drag (DragStarted, DragDelta, DragCompleted), Flick and Pinch

This library is delivered both as a binary, as well as with fully buildable and modifiable code licensed under the MS-PL license, and you are free to modify and/or include it in your applications.

You can learn more about using some of the cool controls in the Toolkit from:

David Anson’s Blog Post

John Papa’s Blog Post

Tim Heuer’s Blog Post

Nice Channel9 Video here.