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Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar Members Public

ApplicationBar on a windows phone, is to provide users of your app with quick access to the most commonly used tasks. For a mail app this would be refresh/new mail, for a photo app it might be like/unlike button, settings etc are common buttons that appear in an

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content Members Public

Mostly phone apps, connect to a service for the data and wrap them up to a cool UI for user consumption. But at times we would have apps that comes with a lot of preloaded content, with offline capability using sqlite.  Offline scenarios might either start of with preloaded content

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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MVVM – Does it really matter? Members Public

MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), is a popular architectural pattern since WPF/Silverlight. Separation of concerns(UI/code), testability etc are some of the key things that motivates one to go via the MVVM route. There are innumerous articles out there, just like this one, that gets into the details of how and

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading Members Public

Some time back we had a look on doing Incremental Loading with a Windows 8 store app. This same scenario is something that one would come across quite frequently while developing a Windows Phone application too. We have a couple of options in dealing with this while on a Windows

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series – Drop Down Button Members Public

While working on my Windows 8 Store application, Picfinity I came across a need for a drop-down button(which I thought was the correct term for this). A similar control is there on the start screen of Windows 8 that gives us options on clicking the logged in user’s

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series - Incremental Loading Members Public

Fast and fluid experience is one of the most important characteristics of a Windows 8 application. As the data becomes larger , it might not be always possible to get the entire data loaded before hand.We might want to have a incremental or sequential data loading so that the user

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series - Exploring OAuth: c# and 500px Members Public

The days when we ourselves developed sites and application for our own services are long gone. Now it’s about building api’s, sharing data and going social that's the buzz. No more is it a feasible solution to build applications for the numerous devices, that varies in

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Getting Started with ASP.NET Web Api Members Public

A web api is to expose your application’s programming interface over the web,using the HTTP interface.This makes the api accessible from any device that can make HTTP calls.With the wide range of devices that’s available nowadays,Web Api would be the best way to reach

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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