As discussed in the two blog posts Caching pages during navigation in Store Apps and Back-stack manipulation in Store Apps, there exist a few reasons for being unsatisfied with WinRT’s navigation framework. If you are thinking about implementing your own…
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Although Microsoft is constantly trying to consolidate Windows Phone and Windows Store APIs, there still exist a lot of differences between the two frameworks. I’ve recently blogged about the caching algorithm in page navigation of Windows Store Apps – a…
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The short story: Each time you navigate back to a previously displayed page within a Windows Store App, a new instance of the page is created instead of re-using the previously used instance. In an MVVM environment, this also means…
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When searching the web for details about how to remove all items from the back stack of a Windows Phone App, most pages just tell you to call When using this from a page’s code behind this is trivial, since…
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Yesterday, a new version of the MVVMbasics Frameworks has been published! The update contains bugfixes of the Command system as well as of the navigation within Windows Store Apps. In addition, 3 new functions within NavigatorService have been implemented: The…
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All blog posts with a title that starts with [MVVMbasics] are related to the MVVMbasics framework. If you are only interested in my regular blog posts and not in MVVMbasics, ignore these. To list all articles covering MVVMbasics, go to…
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Ever wanted to be notified when a Windows Store App is “minimized”, for example because the user presses the Windows button, or because another app becomes active (imagine that a new e-mail is received, the user clicks the toast message…
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A lot has been said about the ugly default style of the ListView control in Windows Store Apps – I suppose you all know the infamous purple box with a white check mark in the upper right corner that decorates…
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All blog posts with a title that starts with [MVVMbasics] are related to the MVVMbasics framework. If you are only interested in my regular blog posts and not in MVVMbasics, ignore these. To list all articles covering MVVMbasics, go to…
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All blog posts with a title that starts with [MVVMbasics] are related to the MVVMbasics framework. If you are only interested in my regular blog posts and not in MVVMbasics, ignore these. To list all articles covering MVVMbasics, go to…
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