On-Screen Keyboard with Windows Phone 7
Working with an on-screen keyboard has never been easier with a windows phone. It’s very context sensitive so when you click on a text box it automatically zooms in to the text box and opens up the on-screen keyboard unit.
When you place a TextBox control on-screen and it has focus a Software keyboard for the touchscreen will pop-up. It’s important to be able to customize that keyboard to the types of input the user will be placing in that textbox with the Windows Phone, you can specify the input scope, which determines the keyboard layout for the software input panel (SIP). This provides the user with easy access to the expected input characters based on the application context.
Here are some of the common SIP layouts and the associated values that you specify in XAML or in application code.
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