Read original post by Den Delimarsky at DZone
As you probably know, Windows Phone 7 application development is mainly based on Silverlight, and Silverlight doesn’t support GIF images. That is fine, unless a web API you are using exposes some of its data through GIF images, and you don’t have much control over the API engine.
To be specific, I was experimenting with a WP 7 application, that accesses the Google Weather API. The XML data that is returned by an API call is fully readable, but one element that can also be used in the application is the graphic representation of the current condition. [...]