Windows Phone Tutorial
If you just add a DateTime Picker (from the Windows Phone Toolkit) to your application,
it will work but its icons will be very unsatisfactory – just a pair of X’s. To get the proper icons, follow these steps:
1. Add the DateTime Picker to your application
2. Copy the Toolkit.Content folder from the Toolkit Samples to your application
3. Create a Toolkit.Content folder in your application and Add-Existing to add the contents to your application
4. Set all of the .png files from Resource to Content
5. Rebuild and run. Hey Presto! The correct icons appear.
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it will work but its icons will be very unsatisfactory – just a pair of X’s. To get the proper icons, follow these steps:
Hi Jessica ,select .png files then open property there you will find build action there you can change it to content or resources.
Hi Pedro. Thanks for your advice. “Content” is enought. There is no need to “Copy” it anywhere. “Do not copy” works.
How do you do Step 4?
I can’t seem to figure out how to change .png files from resource to content.
Thanks!
Great tip. I was looking for solution about a day… Now my date time pickers works great. Thanks again…
Great info, just a small addend: if you add the Toolkit via NuGet, the “Toolkit.Content” folder gets automatically added to the project, but you still have to set the files to “Content” and “Copy Always” 😉