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Template10: a new template to create Universal Windows apps – The basics

When you launch Visual Studio 2015 to create a Universal Windows app for Windows 10 for the first time, the first thing you notice is that the number of available templates is very low. If, when it comes to Windows … Continue reading

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The new background features in Windows 10

If you already have some experience in developing Universal Windows apps for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1, you should already be familiar with the “application lifecycle” concept. Compared to the traditional desktop model, where the application lifecycle is quite simple … Continue reading

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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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