If the user of the Windows Phone 7 device switches from the default dark theme to the light theme, how do you detect which one is in use? In the MSDN article Theme Resources for Windows Phone, there are two interesting resource keys that you can query. These are the PhoneDarkThemeVisibility and PhoneLightThemeVisibility keys. So [...]
The Windows Phone 7 has two different background color modes; dark or light. In addition, there are ten accent colors to choose from. There’s currently no simple way of detecting which theme and accent color that the user has selected his or her device. However, since the colors of the current theme is injected into [...]
PLEASE NOTE: These aren’t the packages that are on the official NuGet pubished list. There is a MVVM Light NuGet package that will cause error and problems on WP7 projects (by incorrectly installing SL4 assemblies). Please contact the author of that package if you are experiencing problems with that. These ones you can download here [...]