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Prism and Universal Windows apps – Binding and commands

In the previous post we’ve seen the basic concepts about using Prism in a Universal Windows app: we’ve seen how to create our first project and how to setup the Prism infrastructure, so that we are able to use all … Continue reading

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Prism and Universal Windows app – The basic concepts

In the latest days I’ve started to work with Prism for Universal Windows apps and I’ve decided to share my experience with you. What is Prism? If you’re a long time Microsoft developer, you’ll probably already know it: it’s a … Continue reading

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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Design time data

One of the most powerful features in XAML is design time data support. Let’s say that you have an application that displays some news retrieved from a RSS feed using a ListView or a GridView control. If you try to … Continue reading

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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Messages

When you’re developing an application using the MVVM pattern, one of the most common needs is to create a communication channel between two ViewModels or a ViewModel and a View: you need to exchange some data between the two actors, … Continue reading

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Porting a Windows Phone 8.0 application to Caliburn Micro 2.0

In my everyday job at Funambol I work on an application called OneMediaHub, which is the Windows Phone client for the cloud services offered by the company. The application is built using the MVVM pattern and Caliburn Micro as a … Continue reading

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