Category Archives: Universal Apps

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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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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