Since the start of my WP7 app, I have leveraged IOC (specifically Ninject) to fill dependencies on my ViewModels following the MVVM Light samples. To briefly summarize, I have an app level resource called Locator which provides properties for each of my ViewModels. These properties get the instance from the IOC container. Locator: public …
I’m giving the users of my WP7 app the ability to save their data to a central server and per the developer guidelines I need to get permission from the user to do so. Wasn’t sure how to do this at first but I remembered that MessageBox works with WP7. So here is my implementation: …
No new content in this post, but wanted to share my findings on charting with MVVM on the phone. I initially started with Visifire. They have some really nice charts and features out of the box but I kept hitting brick walls with databinding and MVVM. They do have some databinding but it isn’t enough, …
I recently had the need to change the state of a MediaElement to coincide with other page functionality. You can easily change the state of a MediaElement from the code-behind but you can’t unit test this. At first I thought, it would be easy to just bind the CurrentState property to a ViewModel property but …
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I have been working on my second application for the last two weeks and wanted to share some code. As stated before, I’m really enjoying the MVVM pattern and how it makes code more testable. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to test touch interaction with the phone but was able to work …