This is something that I couldn’t remember parts of earlier today so I figured I would add it to my “knowledge base”. I wanted to retrieve a TFS work item on a background thread in my ViewModel and have the UI update when complete. Specifically I wanted to retrieve the title of a TFS work…
Another WP7 Navigation Approach with MVVM
There are various ways to navigate between views in a Windows Phone 7 application. The first example you typically see is an event wired into a View’s code-behind that calls NavigationService.Navigate(uri). How do we navigate using an MVVM pattern though? There are various ways to do that both manually and using an existing MVVM framework,…
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Windows Phone 7 Error Handling, Reporting
I decided to create a a basic error handling infrastructure with an Error Window for my Windows Phone 7 application with the following in mind: Informing user of a problem Displaying a user-friendly error message in Release mode Displaying a developer-friendly full error message in Debug mode Offering a more robust window than MessageBox API…
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