Application Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7 2011.1

Application Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7. The icons are 48 x 48 pixels, mostly transparent, with the actual image centered to the image in a square of 26x26 pixels Technically, developers get 252 unique app icons drawn in matching style, each coming in PNG file format. Always use an image of White color with Transparent background. If you have a different theme set for your phone, the Application Bar will colorize them accordingly.

Design Guidelines for Application Bar

You can add an application bar to your page both from XAML and code behind. There are some design guidelines for Application bar and a developer must know about these before designing and developing their Windows Phone application.

- Application Bar has in-built animation and rotation support. So, use it to keep consistency across all Windows Pone applications.
- Always use an image of White color with Transparent background. If you have a different theme set for your phone, the Application Bar will colorize them accordingly.
- Use 48 x 48 icon images and the actual image content should place itself within 26 x 26 image
- Never draw the circle for the icons as that is drawn by the Application Bar itself. image
- Use icons for most commonly used commands. You can place only 1 - 4 icon buttons in the panel. Hence, if you want more than 4 commands to put in the Application Bar, use the Menu item for the additional actions.
- Don't place more than 5 menu items in the application bar. This will create a scroll bar in the UI and the user will have to scroll to click on the items.
- Don't add more than 20 characters in the menu items, as it doesn't have support for advance Text formatting like Trimming and/or Word Wrap.
- Remember that, as the Application bar is not a Silverlight control, you can't use data binding for text. You have to hard code the text in XAML.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Release Date:	July 07, 2011
Platforms:	OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 3.x, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Mac OSX, Unix, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Basic x64, Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Vista Business x64, Windows Vista Enterprise x64, Windows Vista Ultimate x64 , WinVista,WinVista x64,Win7 x32,Win7 x64,WinOther,Other,Mac Other,WinServer,WinMobile,Android,BlackBerry,iPhone,iPod,iTouch,Palm,Palm OS 6.0,Handheld/Mobile Other,Java,Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005,Windows Media Center Edition 2005
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Version 2011.1 Changes:	New icon set: Application Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7 Series
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