mvvm

A 5-post collection

RadCustomHubTile from Telerik for Windows 8 UI

Introduction Telerik recently released their Windows 8 UI Controls to RC on September 18th (see post here), and this is probably on the first in a series of posts I will put out showing them off. The first control here is the RadCustomHubTile.  I chose this because I am in the process of porting my Find Amber app from Windows Phone to Windows 8 and I wanted to transition the app without drifting too far from the spirit of the original app.  [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OoJxg94Y9sg/UFtzIhwbmQI/AAAAAAAAAU8/_9KJDXTNF2g/s320/promoimage.png)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OoJxg94Y9sg/UFtzIhwbmQI/AAAAAAAAAU8/_9KJDXTNF2g/s1600/promoimage.png)RadControls from Telerik used here for Current List and Search...


SimpleIoc and the Messenger Service in MVVM Light

CodeProject The SimpleIoc addition in the most recent version of MVVMLight is a great add and really simplified the ViewModelLocator across all of the platforms supported in this framework. If you are not familiar with MVVM Light or what you types of project platforms it supports please go to http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com or www.galasoft.ch/mvvm to learn more. However if you are using the Messenger Service in MVVM Light to perform a set of actions to do the following: User takes an action Application changes views Application send message to display or load data then it is important to note that there are some differences in the way that the ViewModels are loaded in comparison to the...


Getting Started w/ Windows 8, MVVM Light and EventToCommand

Now that Windows 8 and Visual Studio are in RTM I wanted to put together a quick entry for those Windows Phone developers making the transition to Windows 8 development with their MVVM Light skills. Laurent Bugnion, is the creator of the MVVM Light toolkit and I, as well as many others, have been using this for Windows Phone development for a while now.  I am porting on of my applications to Windows 8 and wanted to take the knowledge of this toolkit to the new platform hoping that there were either some new enhancements and/or not many changes so that I could just go.  Well that was the deal. MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 RTM...


Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 2 of 2

CodeProject In Part 1, we covered the following: Creating the application* Connecting the View and the View-Model* Adding an additional View or PagePart 2 we'll see how to add a button on the first page to navigate to the second page which will cover navigation and messaging to complete the application and although basic, will give a rather decent start to create and publish your first Rubber Ducky application. If you need the code, you can get it here. Let’s start by opening MainPage.xaml.  You should see the following image here: Add a button by dragging it on to the design surface or adding the following code, it doesn’t matter where, just somewhere within the content...


Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2

CodeProject A few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral. Now the reason here is that Rich, in his spare time, sponsors and host events for Nokia in order to promote Windows Phone Development and as a a reward will get you a Nokia Device and App Hub Token. A pretty nice prize for learning how to write apps for Windows Phone.  The post is a pretty good resource on where to get what you need to get started and how to get the prize. Here is an excert... Every time I tweet about new Windows Phone developers being able to receive...