portable__class__library

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...

Portable Class Libraries  Portable Class Libraries were added as a project type in the interest of creating an assembly that you could use across the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms without modifications.  Well, not really that easy.  There is some work to do and as you get into the development of PCLs you'll find out that there is really a sliver of what you'd hope is supported. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/gg597391(v=vs.110).aspx) MVVM Light Where I have found it for me is in Windows Store and Windows Phone (7.5 and 8) with MVVM Light. I have been using this MVVM framework exclusively for a...