Multilevel expander View in windows phone 8 - windows-phone-7

I am developing windows phone application and got stuck in a problem where I need use ExpanderView (using Telerik or phonetoolkit) but at Multiple levels (0-5), much like TreeView.
Please share any tutorial if anybody got one.
I just spent many hours in playing with this control but no luck.
Zauk

Have you checked the Telerik Examples app in the store? I belive there is an example like the scenario you want.

You can download sample code provided by Codplex for windows phone-8 and see Expanderview it's very clear and easy to use.

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Thx!
check this great blog post with a summary of available components for WinRT.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paulwhit/archive/2013/02/15/pdf-view-components-for-windows-store-apps-winrt-xaml-c.aspx
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/pdf_api_blog/

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Are you able to access Silverlight applications?
(sorry for my bad english)
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I don't think there was anything new posted to that effect (but then the story was already explained in Dev Preview). It basically works the way you describe in Beta.
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Taking screenshot of the current screen in BlackBerry
And a search for "windows-phone screenshot" yields this:
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After you can stitch it together using different ways.

Does windows phone 7 have a similar component likes UITableview in iPhone?

Does windows phone 7 have a similar component likes UITableview in iPhone?
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I welcome any comments.
Your best bet would be to bind the data to a ListBox.
Here is an example.
You may be interrested in http://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges.com/
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Tim is correct that you will most likely end up using a ListBox, but here is a bit of a longer answer:
I believe you are referring to the iOS to Windows Phone API mapping tool, which helps map common iOS APIs to their Windows Phone equivalents. Unfortunately in this case it will not provide a direct answer to your question, as iOS and Windows Phone take different approaches to the UI layer:
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Can someone offer to please mail it to me or paste it in here, because I don't want to reinvent it? I would apppreciate it. Thanks.
Code for other demos for LoopingSelectors would be fine too.
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