 <p>Try by using the <a href="http://silverlight.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow">Silverlight toolkit for Windows Phone 7</a>. If you need to capture the Tap event on the page, you've to use the services of the GestureListner class. </p> <pre><code>&lt;phone:PhoneApplicationPage xmlns:toolkit="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone" xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" x:Name="phoneApplicationPage" x:Class="XXXXX" &gt; &lt;toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener&gt; &lt;toolkit:GestureListener Tap="Page_Tap" /&gt; &lt;/toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener&gt; . . . </code></pre>