Posts Tagged “Development”

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 »

RestSharp Custom Serialization with DataContractJsonSerializer for Windows Phone 7

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We love Restsharp, it cuts out a chunk of boring plumbing code when working with rest services on Windows Phone 7 (WP7) with Json. However, the default JsonDeserializer has a couple of drawbacks: It doesn’t allow you to use custom attributes on your classes, likeĀ [DataMember(Name = "id")], so if you have very small 2 letter More »