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Posts Tagged “Caliburn Micro”
Caliburn Micro for WinRT – MVVM Magic Pixie Dust for everyone
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Marker Metro ports Caliburn Micro to WinRT to help you build great MVVM metro style applications on Windows 8
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
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 »
MVVM placeholder images for failed image load on Windows Phone 7 with Caliburn Micro
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When using the Image control in Windows Phone 7 and pointing to an unknown url, we have to be mindful of the fact that the url might not be a valid url. In this instance it’s advisable to display some sort of default placeholder image instead so that there is not a blank area in More »
Caliburn Micro 1.1 – Strongly typed navigation for Windows Phone 7
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If you are an MVVM and Windows Phone fan like me, you’ll be very pleased at the announcement that Caliburn Micro 1.1 is available right now. I wanted to comment on the strongly typed navigation feature in particular. One common MVVM pattern for dealing with the view first nature of Windows Phone is to constructor More »
MVVM Friendly Visual State Management with Windows Phone 7
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First, the problem. We want to be able to bind to and trigger an animation in the View from the View Model in a zero touch fashion. The use case I’m taking here is displaying a Progress Bar control and having it fade in/out, in this instance using a Visual State Manager. There are plenty More »
Windows Phone 7 – How to always launch your app where the user left off
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How to ensure your user always comes back to your app in the place they left off