Adding control template to project - windows-phone-7

I want to use metro styled combobox item in windows phone 7 (mango). I ve found toturial to do this http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/metro-style-combobox-windows but i don't know where should i put code of control template (it should work on every combobox on project).
Any ideas?
Chris

Is there any particular reason you want to use that ComboBox? The link you've posted is a hack to get it to work on Windows Phone. Have you taken a look at the ListPicker control from the Silverlight toolkit?
This article provides a great introduction on how to use it.

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You could try using the ExpanderView control from the Microsoft Windows Phone toolkit which is free.
May be you just have to style it a little so that it looks like an Accordion List.
You can use the control in a simple way, by populating it with Items:
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<toolkit:ExpanderView.Items>
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</toolkit:ExpanderView.Items>
</toolkit:ExpanderView>
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Tutorial : http://windowsphonegeek.com/articles/listpicker-for-wp7-in-depth
Download the project in this link an enhance by add selected index and page navigating option.
http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/news/developing-a-wp7-jump-list-control
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/windows-phone/jumplist.aspx?pageid=1

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Silverlight Toolkit
These other stackoverflow questions may provide some insight (possible duplicate?):
How to get dropdown like menu in wp7?
Windows Phone Dropdown
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUZx8YHPlWM#t=0m36s
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