{"id":633,"date":"2011-03-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2011\/03\/11\/visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-9-how-to-create-a-keyboard-input-scope-application-for-windows-phone-7\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:40:15","slug":"visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-9-how-to-create-a-keyboard-input-scope-application-for-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/visual-basic-windows-phone-7-series-9-how-to-create-a-keyboard-input-scope-application-for-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Series #9. How to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our <\/span>last post<\/span><\/a>, I explained how to create a settings page for Windows Phone 7. In this blog post, I want to share a sample that will help you to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7. This application will have the feature that allows you to change the input scope of the on-screen keyboard to one of the many built-in options. This sample contains code for three different ways of changing the on-screen keyboard. <\/span><\/p>\n

I will now demonstrate how easy it is to create a keyboard input scope application for Windows Phone 7, using Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. The keyboard input scope application can be created in 4 simple steps as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Create a sample application and add controls<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Add an event handler<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Build and debug the application<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Rebuild in the release mode before publishing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Prerequisites:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n