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Let’s back up a bit and examine the day to day use of a View Model, and binding to the view model.  In this mini-tutorial I’ll show the basics of binding a collection that sits in a View Model to … Continue reading →

In the previous WPFS we covered the basics of Navigation and the in the one before that we covered the fundamentals of animation.  Let’s combine these two ideas to create a better navigation experience. When we move from page 1 … Continue reading →

To navigate from one page to another, you can take advantage of the static Navigate method on the page’s read-only NavigationService property.  This passes your request to the NavigationService Singleton for your application, and greatly simplifies the navigation syntax. A … Continue reading →

Animation in Silverlight is declared in Storyboards and triggered by a user’s action, by a background action or process or, most commonly, by a change in state.  Thus an animation might be triggered by pressing a button, but more often … Continue reading →

In the previous mini-tutorial you saw how to create a custom Behavior, and in that custom behavior you captured the on click action event of the button.  This pattern is so common that there is a special type of behavior, … Continue reading →

Behaviors are, in my experience, under-appreciated by many Silverlight and Windows Phone programmers; possibly because they are most easily used from Expression Blend, which itself is greatly under-appreciated.  A behavior is an encapsulation of logic within Xaml – it is … Continue reading →