Telerik Nokia Lumia WP7 Skins

In this article you will see the steps to install Telerik Nokia Lumia WP7 Skins.

After the Nokia announcement of the Nokia Lumia Windows  Phone, Telerik launched new Nokia Lumia WP7 skins for developers. In this post I will show you step to install them,
 
Skins look like below,






 
Step 1
 
Download Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator skins from here. You will get Skins top download as a ZIP file in the other section

Step 2
 
Unzip the downloaded folder. You will get three types of skins 

• Nokia Lumia 710 Telerik

• Nokia Lumia 710 white

• Nokia Lumia 710 Black

You can choose any of them.
 
Step 3
 
Navigate to folder
 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\1.0\
 
Step 4
 
Take a backup of the below four files. These are the default skin


Step 5
 
After taking the backup, copy and paste the files from any folder of above three to the above location. I copied files from the Nokia Lumia 710 Telerik folder.
 
Now go ahead and run a Windows Phone application in the Emulator, you should see the new Telerik Skin.


 
I hope this quick post was useful. Thanks for reading