The Silverlight toolkit for Windows Phone’s Mango update has been released. You can download the toolkit here.Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit offers developers additional controls for Windows Phone application development, designed to match the rich user experience of the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK.

New Components for Aug 2011

• Smooth new LongListSelector designed for Windows Phone 7.1 OS
• MultiselectList
• LockablePivot
• HubTile
• ExpanderView
• LocalizedResources
• DateTimeConverters
• DateTimePickers
• HeaderedItemsControl
• PhoneTextBox
• Improved Transitions performance
• Improved ContextMenu performance
• ListPicker supports multiselect
• Various bug fixes

Components in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit

• AutoCompleteBox
• ContextMenu
• DatePicker
• DateTimeConverters
• DatePicker
• ExpanderView
• GestureService/GestureListener
• HeaderedItemsControl
• HubTile
• ListPicker
• LocalizedResources
• LockablePivot
• LongListSelector
• MultiselectList
• Page Transitions
• PerformanceProgressBar
• PhoneTextBox
• TiltEffect
• TimePicker
• ToggleSwitch
• WrapPanel

Get the tools

You can download the new release straight from the CodePlex site at http://silverlight.codeplex.com/ - it requires the latest ‘Mango’ developer tools as well.

The release is also available on NuGet as the SilverlightToolkitWP package.