Monthly Archives: December 2014

Prism and Universal Windows apps – Messages

Another common scenario when you work with the MVVM pattern is messages support: all the available toolkits and frameworks support them. Messages are a way to exchange data between two classes (typically, two ViewModels) with a decoupled approach: the two … Continue reading

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Prism and Universal Windows app – Managing the application’s lifecycle

Unless this is your first experience with Windows Store app development, you should be familiar with the concept of “application lifecycle”. Windows Store apps are created for scenarios where battery life, memory and CPU are not unlimited: consequently, the old … Continue reading

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Prism and Universal Windows app – Navigation

Let’s continue our journey about using Prism in Universal Windows app development, by understanding how to manage a very important feature: navigation. Unless we’re talking about a really basic application, your project will likely contain more than one page. Consequently, … Continue reading

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Prism and Universal Windows apps – Advanced commands

In the previous post we’ve learned the basic concepts that are required to implement the MVVM pattern using Prism in a Universal Windows app. In this post, we’ll continue our journey by exploring more details about using commands. Managing secondary … Continue reading

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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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