In this post, Joost van Schaik talks about a bindable Application Bar for your WP7 application.
Source: .NET by Example
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: ”Thou shalt not make unto thee any Windows Phone 7 application without MVVMLight” Even when using Application Bar. I strikes me as very odd that people still use that thing for an excuse to bypass the model or even forego MVVM.
This article is compatible with the latest version of Silverlight.
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This article is Part 2 of “A classic memory game”:
The series is about building the following classic memory game in Silverlight, and porting it to Windows Phone 7. In the first article we started a new MVVM Light project, created the controls and designed the game-states.
This article is Part 1 of “A classic memory game”:
My wife has started learning Silverlight and because of my Expression Blend skills are still lacking, we have decided to build the following classic memory game so both of us can learn something new. We kept things simple but we respected basic Silverlight principles.
This article is compatible with the latest version of Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.
In this short series of articles I’ll cover what MVVM is and how to use it in practice, how to solve issues when applying this pattern and how to take advantage from it.
In the previous article we discussed what MVVM is and why it matters. In this article we’ll try to benefit from the pattern and talk about the issues you have to battle through when working with MVVM. Our sample application was able to pull some data from a model, and display it on the screen in a master-detail fashion.