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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...

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...

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...

I recently attended Orlando Code Camp for the second straight year and I must say that it really topped last year and I cannot wait to see what's in store for next.  That's not the point of this post, but a number of sessions I attended there did put some thought in my noggin I thought I'd share. Champions League TrackerA new track this year was Windows Phone 7 and one of the talks that really stuck with me was Jonas Stawski's "An Inside Look into a Successful Windows Phone App" where he opened up a good portion of his code of his "Champions League Tracker" application and gave fast and pretty thorough walk through of not only...