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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Tombstoning

Tombstoning is the joy and the pain of every Windows Phone developer: it’s a joy because it’s a really smart mechanism to manage the suspension process of an application and to “simulate” that an application has never been closed. But … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Collections and navigation

We continue our journey about Caliburn Micro and how to use this MVVM framework in a Windows Phone 8 application by understanding how to manage collections and navigation. Collections One of the most common scenarios in a Windows Phone application … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Actions

In the previous post we’ve seen how  to setup a Windows Phone application to use Caliburn Micro as a MVVM Framework. We’ve seen also the first conventions used by the toolkit, to connect together a View with its ViewModel and … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The first project

In the previous post we’ve seen the theory behind the Caliburn Micro project and why is different from other toolkits (like MVVM Light) that are available to implement the MVVM pattern in a Windows Phone application. In this post we’ll … Continue reading

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First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The theory

If you’re a Windows Phone developer you’ll probably have heard of Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM for friends): it’s the most widely approach used for development with technologies based on XAML, like WPF, Silverlight and, more recently, Windows Phone and Windows Store apps. … Continue reading

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