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Using the Device Panel

| Thursday, November 11, 2010
Unlike desktop and web applications, your Windows Phone applications can be viewed in multiple orientations, can be run in either a Light or Dark theme, and can be customized using various accent colors. Designing across all of these combinations of orientations and looks may seem like a daunting challenge.

While I am not going to dismiss the effort it would take for you to take all of those cases into account when designing your application, there are some features in Expression Blend that can help you out. The one I am going to focus on in this article is the Device Panel:

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The Device Panel is a one-stop shop where you can preview inside Expression Blend what your application will look like in the various orientation and theme combinations a user may have set. In this short article, you will learn how to use the various features the Device Panel exposes to make your life easier.

Getting Started
Make sure you have everything up and running to do Windows Phone development. Once you are setup, go ahead and launch Expression Blend and create a new Windows Phone application.

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