Marker Metro at Tech Ed – Come hear us talk about Windows 8 and Windows Phone
Come and meet the Marker Metro team and here us speak at Tech Ed New Zealand 2012
Come and meet the Marker Metro team and here us speak at Tech Ed New Zealand 2012
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Marker Metro ports Caliburn Micro to WinRT to help you build great MVVM metro style applications on Windows 8
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Removing pages from the Windows Phone back stack 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Learn how to use MVVM Light Messaging to create dynamic application bar changes from your view model classes without them knowing about your view.