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AutoView – the Missing Link for a Good ViewModel First Approach

Whether you are developing a WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone or Windows Store app using XAML, you will probably be told that MVVM is the way to go. With MVVM, you have to make a relationship between the View and the ViewModel for things to work. Essentially...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2014 11:18 AM by vbandi

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WinRT, XAML, MVVM, Windows Phone

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

The built-in resources in Windows Phone 7 help a lot with automatically reflecting the selected theme of the phone. (See my earlier blog post: Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps ). However, sometimes you want to be theme aware...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2012 1:00 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Windows Phone 7

SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control

On SurfCube, we are using the ListPicker control from the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit. The latest (August 2011) version of this Toolkit has a bug – it doesn’t work in ScrollViewers. It simply does not open. First we thought the problem was with...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2011 8:16 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, Mango, SurfCube

SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test

Note: If you don’t know what SurfCube is and would like to follow this post series: it is a popular Windows Phone 7 web browser with a 3D twist. Here is a demo video you should look at to understand what I am talking about. Better yet, download SurfCube...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 1:46 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, SurfCube on Mango, Mango, SurfCube

MVP Again!

How time flies… July has already started. This time of the year I am checking my Inbox every 5 minutes, with excitement, hoping to see an email from Microsoft about my MVP status. It’s a strange thing. At the beginning of April I have to summarize all...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2011 10:44 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight

Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!

About a year ago, I wrote an article for SilverlightShow, titled “ A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM ”. The article introduced VSMChangerBehavior which allows tying enums in the ViewModel to Visual States in the View. Another Action shown off there...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 12:34 PM by vbandi

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States

It is pretty well known that an app can be notified of the phone’s orientation changes via the PhoneApplicationFrame.OrientationChanged event. However, if you are as serious about sharing the work between the designer and the developer as I am, you will...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 4:14 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem is displayed

While trying to reduce the loading time for our SurfCube 3D Browser app , I realized that loading a 100 or so history items to a ViewModel property directly bound to the UI may not be the best idea. It takes up a long time (like 0.5 seconds) to render...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2011 3:49 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace and getting feedback

Encouraging the users of your WP7 app to rate or buy your application, view other apps by you or just send a feedback email can make or break an app. However, the MarketPlace API can be a little confusing, and takes a little time to figure out which method...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 12:38 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Silverlight with Facebook - a practical guide to integration

Foreword This article discusses how basic Facebook features (such as logging in, posting to a user’s wall) can be accessed from within your Silverlight application. Since we will be discussing the topic of integrating Facebook with Silverlight, understanding...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 9:26 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight

Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps

Windows Phone 7 users can customize their phones by choosing between a dark and a light background, and tons of accent colors. The Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide tells us, that it is good to be theme-aware. For example, if the user selects...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 7:29 PM by vbandi

Filed under: User Experience, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Windows Phone 7

Designing the Windows Phone 7 “Mix Zoomery” app

Summary: this blog post details the design decisions and some technical information behind the Windows Phone 7 Mix Zoomery app. Some of you may have heard of Zoomery, which is the Deep Zoom framework of my company ( Response ). Some of you may have even...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2010 11:26 PM by vbandi

Filed under: User Experience, Silverlight, UX Thoughts, Silverlight.net, Windows Phone 7

I am a Silverlight MVP again!

I am honored to announce, that I have been re-awarded as a Silverlight MVP for another year! Receiving the congratulatory email always feels a little bit like birthday, and puts a huge grin on my face for days. I can say “always” as this is...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2010 5:34 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight

20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file

Last week I gave a 3 hour “What’s new in Silverlight 4” talk to the Hungarian Silverlight UG, the Silverlight Klub . I had a LOT of demos, – most of which I prepared, and some I borrowed. The aim of the demos was to give a small code sample to most new...

Published Tue, May 05 2010 12:43 AM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net, Discovering Silverlight 4

A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM

My new article, “ A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM ” is up at Silverlight Show. Here is the intro: “If you work with Silverlight or WPF, you have probably met the phrase “MVVM”. Almost everyone who is anyone in the WPF / Silverlight scene has their...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 3:54 PM by vbandi

Filed under: Silverlight, Silverlight.net

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AutoView – the Missing Link for a Good ViewModel First Approach

WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior

SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control

SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test

MVP Again!

Response.MVVM is now available via NuGet!

Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States

Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem is displayed

Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace and getting feedback

Silverlight with Facebook - a practical guide to integration

Being theme aware in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight apps

Designing the Windows Phone 7 “Mix Zoomery” app

I am a Silverlight MVP again!

20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file

A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM