Jeff Wilcox, the man behind 4th and Mayor (reviewed here on AAWP) has just handed every Windows Phone developer a little present - a new code library for reading QR codes as part of their application.

There are great libraries out there written or ported to C# that let us developers rock by standing on the shoulders of giants. Here’s one such project. A phone developer who’s also an enthusiast of foursquare suggested a feature that I should add in a future release, and provided some sample code based on the zxing barcode library and the Silverlight port of it. I’m working on adding the new feature soon.

In the process I realized it would be a good and quick opportunity to ship such a simple but useful control to the phone development community, so I’ve gone ahead and pushed that control refactoring and implementation to GitHub, check it out: https://github.com/jeffwilcox/wpqr-control

I love that Wilcox is sharing his code, and think that this is a strong sign that the Windows Developer community can become a true community. Programmers like to show how things work, to point out their elegant code, and to help others join them. So congratulations Jeff, and let's see more of this from everyone else as Windows Phone pushes on towards 75,000 app in the marketplace.

(Hat tip to WP Central)