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Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading multiple data sources inside a Pivot Paid Members Public
We had seen on how incremental loading can be done in a Windows phone, so that data can be fetched as user scrolls down the available data. This is important for data sources that have a large amount of data and when all of these cannot be loaded at once.
Windows Phone Series – Using UCWA to connect to Lync Server Paid Members Public
One of the main things that makes enterprise or intranet applications more lively and connected with your business contacts, is to integrate with Lync (formerly Microsoft Office Communicator) and provide options to interact with them. UCWA(Unified Communications Web Api) is a REST API that exposes Lync Server and its
MVVM – A Windows Phone Scenario – Part 2 Paid Members Public
We had looked into many of the common MVVM scenarios, that we come across while developing windows phone applications in MVVM – A Windows Phone Scenario. We will see some more that we were left off, in this post. 5. Page Navigations and Parameters For almost all the application, we would
Windows Phone Series – Jump Lists Paid Members Public
One of the best things about the windows phone is that way you can navigate large lists of data. Jumplist provides an easy and fast way to navigate large data, just like we do in the contacts hub or the apps collection. It would be great to have this behaviour
MVVM – A Windows phone scenario Paid Members Public
With multiple platforms/devices, embracing the same technology, common architectural patterns become more popular as they provide us with what we want the most – **Reusability. **MVVM has turned out to be a must use architectural pattern while developing for Windows phone/Windows 8 store apps. I had blogged on this,
Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar Paid 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
Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content Paid 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
MVVM – Does it really matter? Paid 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