Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Background Audio with XAML/C#
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How to get background audio working across page navigations in your xaml/c# metro style app
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Windows Phone – Removing pages from the back stack with Caliburn Micro
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Removing pages from the Windows Phone back stack with Caliburn Micro
Windows Phone Background Agent – Resolving Dependencies on Unsupported APIs with existing libraries
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Learn how to resolve dependencies on unsupported APIs with Windows Phone Background Agents
Windows 8 Metro Style Apps – Layout and Orientation Management with XAML
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How to manage layout and orientation within a Windows 8 Metro style app using XAML
Windows 8 Metro Style Apps – Implementing Navigation with XAML
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How to integration navigation within a Windows 8 Metro app using XAML
Tech Ed 2011 – Architecting Windows Phone Apps with Caliburn Micro
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I recently gave a talk at Tech Ed 2011 New Zealand on the Caliburn Micro MVVM framework. You can view and download the presentation and download the source code. Here are the areas I covered: Getting Started with Caliburn Micro Lifecycle Management for Apps and View Models (VMs) Managing the App Bar and performing Navigation More »
Windows Phone Pivot Performance with Caliburn Micro
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The in built Windows Phone pivot is great, a lovely UX. However, one needs to be careful, because when you code up a Pivot control you are effectively coding multiple “pages” at once, and all that xaml, and all that data binding is going to have a hit on performance as the number of pivots More »
Caliburn Micro 1.1 – Windows Phone 7 Performance Tip – Use OnViewReady
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Microsoft have posted up a series of performance considerations when developing Windows Phone apps which any developer should read. There is one section in particular called “Minimize the Code in Constructors and Loaded Events” which you can find here a few sub headings down: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff967560(v=vs.92).aspx#BKMK_Startup The recommended code for each view is presented below. Whilst More »
Windows Phone 7 Custom Fonts
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I found a blog post on adding custom font support to Windows Phone 7, but it didn’t quite work for me so I’m posting up the steps i took to get this working. Step 1 – Ensure you have the right font Windows Phone requires you to have your font in TrueType format (.ttf). If More »
Windows Phone 7 Databinding – Painting and Redrawing Performance with the ObservableCollection
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I’ve been playing around with observable collections, as you do, and appear to have come up with what seems to be a pattern for binding data to the View which appears to get pretty good responsiveness and performance. Many blog posts I found talked about using ObservableCollections on the ViewModel with automatic properties, and ensure More »