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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Dependency injection with MVVM Light

In the previous post we’ve seen how Xamarin Forms offers an easy way to manage dependency injection, so that you can support the different ways how some features are managed on every platform. This way, you can use a common … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Dependency injection

If you’re already worked with Windows Phone and Windows Store applications and, especially, with the MVVM pattern, you should be familiar with the dependency injection concept. In a typical application, when you need to use a class, you simply create … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Using the MVVM pattern

We’ve already talked many times about the MVVM pattern on this blog and how to implement it in Windows Phone 8 apps using Caliburn Micro or in Universal Windows apps with Caliburn Micro and Prism. The Model-View-ViewModel pattern is very … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Navigation and application lifecycle

One of the core concepts when you create a mobile application is navigation: it’s unlikely that an app is made by just one page, so you need to provide a way to the user to move from one page to … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – A brief introduction

Mobile cross platform development is one of the hottest topics nowadays. The market offers to consumers three major mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), each of them based on its own technologies, patterns and tools. iOS is based on … Continue reading

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