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Detecting whether you are returning from Dormant state or Tombstoned

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Jesse and Jon dig a little deeper into the main screen of their Windows Phone Pomodoro client, looking at how MVVM works with more complex binding scenarios with selection and navigation.

In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon kick off a new Pomodoro task / time management project with a Windows Phone application using MVVM Light, building out the basic models, and setting up home screen.

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• Pomodoro Technique
• MVVM Light

Jon and Jesse decide to start on a new application, so they begin with a discussion with John Papa to make sure they've got the MVVM part figured out.

Persisting an Image (e.g., to Isolated Storage)

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Managing the back stack to ensure that the hardware back button performs as expected.

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Mini-Tutorial

Creating Context Menus with the Windows Phone Toolkit

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Mini-Tutorial

In part 2 we create a button and handle its click event using a behavior and a MVVMLight relay command.

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Mini-Tutorial

Part 1 of a mini-series of videos on MVVM. Today we start with a simple MVVM Light application with two pages.

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Mini-Tutorial

Unless you are careful, creating a Reminder and then re-creating the same reminder can cause your program to crash.  This follow up to the earlier posting on Reminders demonstrates both the problem and a very easy solution.

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