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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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Prism and Universal Windows app – Navigation

Posted on December 19, 2014 by qmatteoq

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

Posted on December 17, 2014 by qmatteoq

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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