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Over the past month I have had the opportunity to give some thought to what I wanted to accomplish this year in my life, career, and health. And during those times of thought I have often gone back to a speech I listened or re-listened to by the late Jimmy Valvano. Jimmy V was a great college basketball coach and was unfortunately diagnosed and later passed away from bone cancer. But shortly before his death he gave a riveting speech at the 1993 ESPN ESPY Awards. There are some great things he said, but one statement lost in many outtakes that stuck with me was "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" ...Ralph Waldo EmersonI think about that statement and...

In the first part I covered how to get the initial project setup and share the ViewModels and ViewModelLocator between a Windows Phone 8 project and a Windows Store Application.  In this post, I'll add a DataService and a Model class that will be used to get the most recent posts from the Windows Phone Blog and display the results. Adding DataService and Async to Portable Class Library The purpose of the DataService in the context of this project is to retrieve the RSS feed from the Windows Phone Blog (http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/rss.aspx) using the async methods available in the 4.5 Framework, return a collection of our Headline class object for...