Category Archives: Universal Apps

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

Posted on September 7, 2015 by qmatteoq

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

Posted on August 10, 2015 by qmatteoq

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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Prism and Universal Windows apps – Layout management

Posted on January 5, 2015 by qmatteoq

In the previous posts we’ve seen that one of the requirements to setup the Prism infrastructure is to change the Views in our application so that, instead of inheriting from the Page class, we inherit from the VisualStateAwarePage one. One … Continue reading →

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Prism and Universal Windows apps – Messages

Posted on December 29, 2014 by qmatteoq

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

Posted on December 22, 2014 by qmatteoq

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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