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If you are using a Windows Phone 7, you’ll have noticed that when you want to go through your People list they are all ‘grouped’ by one character. And when you press one of those characters, you’ll get a nice overview of all available groups, again shown by a character.
Now if you are a wp7 developer and want to have the same kind of behaviour for any kind of ‘lists’ you want to present to the enduser, you have 2 options, 1. develop your own control or 2. use the LongListSelector available in the Sliverlight toolkit for WindowsPhone7!