Fix Windows Phone 7 (WP7) gradients in emulator/phone.  While
developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 using gradients you might
notice they look fine and smooth in Visual Studio or Blend but
not in emulator or on Windows Phone device. You can see quality
decrease and horizontal streaks making the transition less
subtle.  The reason for it is your App is using 16bits per pixel
color depth settings. To force your app to use 32 bits per pixel
you have to set the attribute BitsPerPixel value to 32 in the
App Manifest File.  You can find the Windows Phone App Manifest
file from Solution Explorer under properties and the file name
is by default WMAppManifest.xml.  Your file should look
something like this:  <Deployment xmlns=""
AppPlatformVersion="7.1"> <App xmlns="" BitsPerPixel="32"
ProductID="{}" Title="App Title"...  16bit vs 32bitNothing
guarantees that devices will have 32 bit deep display hardware
but all the newer devices should have it. And remember
BitsPerPixel is supported only in Mango.  But remember that t