A Windows Phone 7 device will not let your application silently dial a number but you can initiate the process of making a phone call from your application and have the user confirm that the call should be made. Let us take a look at how you can dial a phone number via code.

In this article we will take a look at one of the new project templates bundled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 called a “Windows Phone Pivot Application”. This template allows you to define a maximum of seven (7) screens, similar to tabs, in your Windows Phone application.

Many times you may be creating an application for Windows Phone 7 and you would like to create some oddly shaped buttons that do not conform to the standard square/rectangular shape. In this article we will take a look at how you can do this using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0.