How do I use the additional Silverlight Toolkit controls?

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I've got VS2010 installed, I've downloaded the Windows Phone add-in and the Silverlight Toolkit from CodePlex, but I cannot work out for the life of me how to actually use the controls in a Windows Phone 7 application...

How do I add the controls into the toolbox, or link them so that the XAML doesn't give me errors all the time? For instance, using the Viewbox - the controls aren't implemented, and the XAML does not compile.

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Make sure you're using the Silverlight 3 (pre-April) toolkit. Also, you may run into the Authenticode bug, sorry. And not all controls will 'just work' - you may need to end up re-templating and styling them for the phone. – Jeff Wilcox

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You're probably running into this bug:

http://www.manyniches.com/windows-phone/signed-assemblies-bug-in-the-windows-phone-tools-ctp-refresh/

The Silverlight toolkit wasn't working for me after the April Update.

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Did you add a reference to the Silverlight Toolkit assembly in your project?

By the way, Jeff Wilcox has a comprehensive overview of the Silverlight Toolkit controls that work on Windows Phone.