MVVM

Today's Mobile Monday is a toolkit by Pedro Lamas that will help speed up your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 app development. Yeah, I know it feels like I've been doing allot frameworks recently, but in my weird world, playing with new frameworks and seeing how they work is "fun". Why? They let…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling) [2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar) [3:33] Visual Studio…

This module introduces the user to MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), the architecture and the Pros and cons. It will provide and overview for how to share code using MVVM, .NET portable class library as well as going over best practices and providing a wealth of resource information. [03:29] -…

Today's project by Adolfo Marinucci is one that you might of seen and not even known it. It's used in a number of places/app's and lets you create professional looking and interacting applications without you having to break open your piggy bank... Like Visual Studio's docking behavior? It's Window…

Today's project provides a good bit of code to look at and play with. The project's description really undersells all you can learn from it... Using the Microsoft Kinect to control GoogleMapThe project is a WPF application that uses Microsoft Kinect to control google maps. Feel free to learn WPF…

In today's second Web Wednesday post (the post earlier today was actually last Wednesday's post, but I forgot to actually schedule it for publishing... Doh! So you guys get two posts today!) I'm highlighting a post that I thought I might need in the near future and thought, "Hey, maybe the C4F…

Windows Phone apps don't just simply run on Windows 8 as they are. There are ways. However, to architect your code so that you can share your "awesome" across multiple screens. Alnur Ismail shows how. Join the Conversation Do you see yourself writing a complete app and then refactoring to…

Today's post is from the one and only Sacha Barber where he takes to not only a cool diagramming solution, but in building it with MVVM and, best of all, how we could reuse it in out own applications! MVVM Diagram DesignerA while back a user called "sucram (real name…

Today's Mobile Monday post is a Windows Phone 7.x app WinSource reader app by Sébastien Lachance. "A Windows Phone 7.x App! What are you thinking, Greg? Windows Phone 8 should be in days! Why highlight a 7.x app? Are you smoking dope?" No, no... The point I'm trying to make is that Windows…

Containing with the Visual Studio 2012 Launch theme, in the keynotes (which you can see on-demand here), you saw a number of demo's of the "My Events" application. Think it was kind of cool and something you'd like to look see the source for? MY EVENTS - Sample Modern Application with…