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Must-have NuGet packages

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Kenneth Truyers on April 12th, 2013.

NuGet is awesome! There are so many packages though that it’s very difficult to know which ones are useful and which can be missed. Therefore I have created a list of the NuGet packages that I find most useful when developing for Windows Phone and Windows 8. S…

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Portable class libraries or source code sharing?

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Kenneth Truyers on March 27th, 2013.

Earlier I wrote a blog post on a specific method to implement code sharing between Windows Store and Windows Phone applications. In this post I want to zoom out a little bit and look at the different techniques available and explain what the differences and ad…

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Tombstoning made easy in Windows Phone MVVM

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Kenneth Truyers on March 13th, 2013.

Tombstoning your application data in Windows Phone can be tricky when you are using the MVVM pattern. In order to save your data you have to do it between the NavigatedTo and NavigatedFrom events of the page. In your ViewModel you don’t have access to these ev…