Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS)
Colin Eberhardt, October 24th, 2011
A few weeks back I wrote a blog post about how the recent announcement of PhoneGap support for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) which makes it possible to develop HTML5-based applications. In my previous blog post I showed the development of a simple HTML5 / JavaScript application which PhoneGap wraps up within a Silverlight application ‘shell’ [...]
A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example
Colin Eberhardt, October 3rd, 2011
In this blog post I look at the new application lifecycle model that Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) introduces, and show how to handle the various lifecycle events in a simple MVVM application. In a previous blog post I described the development of a simple Windows Phone 7 application using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and how [...]
A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example
Colin Eberhardt, May 23rd, 2011
This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that following the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. I have to admit Windows Phone 7 tombstoning had me in a bit of a muddle for a while, so many places to store state, a confusing lifecycle and navigation model. Most of the blog posts [...]
ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation
Colin Eberhardt, April 21st, 2011
This blog post describes a novel method of generating boiler-plate MVVM code using codesnippet automation. You simply add attributes to your view model classes and the code is generated for you! Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) has become the de facto pattern for Silverlight, WPF and WP7 applications, providing code that is easily tested and couples cleanly to [...]
MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart
Colin Eberhardt, March 6th, 2011
This post describes a method of using attached properties to bind a ViewModel which contains multiple data series to a Visiblox chart without any code-behind. The Visiblox chart supports databinding in both WPF and Silverlight, where the X and Y values for each datapoint are bound to properties on an underlying model. However, there is [...]
The mini-ViewModel pattern
Colin Eberhardt, August 7th, 2009
The construction of a ViewModel is often seen as the standard technique for solving binding problems within WPF and Silverlight. However, the addition of a ViewModel adds complexity to your code. This post describes an alternative method where a mini-V…