Following our last post, we now have a solid framework for our app to handle state and lifecycle. However, at this point we are still navigating the app directly from the code-behind of the Views, which ties the navigation to the platform code. In addition to cluttering up our code, this also restricts us from […]
Month: August 2015
We have so far created a simple app with two pages, that uses simple Frame navigation to go back and forth. However, the app is still missing one crucial feature: state management. When an app is suspended for whatever reason (such as being minimized on the desktop or navigated away from on the phone), it […]
So far we’ve setup a few pages with some design-time data to help us layout the app, but running it still yields a blank screen with no interaction possible. We’ll remedy this by loading the sample data at runtime and adding a simple navigation implementation to allow us to go back and forth between the […]
In our last post, we installed the MVVM Light Toolkit and defined the basic framework for a simple two-page app with the MVVM pattern. With the ViewModels we created, we now have the containers for the data, but it would be even more helpful to pre-populate them with some sample data to aid in the designing of […]
In the next few posts we’ll dive into the basics of using the MVVM Light Toolkit with Windows 10 to build a simple project two-page with the MVVM design pattern. Today we’ll show how to setup the toolkit in a Windows 10 project, and some of the basic components you’ll need to define to follow […]