Each time you create a non-game project under Windows Phone 7.1 / 8.0, you have to repeat a series of steps of the same type. Today I got sick of it, and I made the Windows Phone Bootstrap App Template . This is a project template that out of the box includes:
Packages of SimpleMVVM Toolkit and Phone Toolkit nuget.
Two windows: MainPage and About, with corresponding models and viewmodels.
Fully working localization of windows and application bars.
Version information and a link to the app rating in the Marketplace in the About window.
Turnstile page animation.
A project created using a template looks like in Visual Studio (only Visual Studio 2012 is supported) like this:
Here you can see or supplement the source code of the project.