Monthly Archives: March 2013

First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Pivot

Panorama and pivot are two key concepts in Windows Phone development: they are, probably, the most used UI paradigm in applications, since they allow to create interfaces that are very different (and, for this reason, original) from an iOS or … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The Application Bar

The Application Bar is the joy and the pain of every Windows Phone developer that starts to use the Model-View-ViewModel pattern to develop his applications. Sooner or later you’ll have to face this problem: the Application Bar is a special … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Use your own services

In this series of posts about Caliburn Micro we’ve learned that the toolkit includes many built in helpers and services, that are automatically registered when, in the bootstrapper, you call the RegisterPhoneServices() method of the PhoneContainer class. We’ve seen many … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Using launchers and choosers

In the previous post we’ve seen how the messaging infrastructure works in Caliburn Micro. In this post we’ll see how to use launchers and choosers within a ViewModel: the two topics are strictly connected, since to accomplish this task Caliburn … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Messaging

When you develop an application using MVVM one of the most frequent scenarios is the communication between different view models: for example, you need to exchange data between two view models or you need that, as a consequence of an … Continue reading

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