How do I get the virtual keyboard in Windows Phone 7?

Question

I've read that this is not possible but that was from a discussion from about 4 months ago. Some Windows Phone 7 games do display the keyboard so surely it must be doable now?

edit: just to clarify I want to show it in an XNA application.

Answer 1

You can use the Guide.BeginShowKeyboardInput method.

In addition to the MSDN docs there is an blog post showing usage at http://luisguerrero.net/en/2010/07/17/how-to-access-to-keyboard-in-xna-from-windows-phone-7/