Since I am a very lazy programmer and I always want to register of define services and whatnot I created this extreme, very simple behavior for showing a MessageBox from a ViewModel. I wrote the code for Windows Phone 7, but I suppose it... lees verder >

In part 1 of this series I described the basics of creating classes from a JSON string and then simply  deserializing the string into a (list of) classes. That way, you don’t have all the hooplah of SOAP, but still have strongly-typ... lees verder >

A small quicky this time: Problem: TextBox, Text property bound to a string in my ViewModel I type text in the TextBox I click a “Save” button on my ApplicationBar The string in my ViewModel is not updated. It never gets updated. WTF... lees verder >

Preface The checkbox has been been around in the Graphical User Interface as long as I can remember doing GUI - in the early 90’s. You know” let’s make that “it’s been around longer than I care to remember”. But for my newest Windows Pho... lees verder >

I’ve been contemplating an article about handling JSON for some time now, but it turned out to be a rather long article and writing extremely large blog posts is someone else’s trade mark these days ;-). So I’d thought to try something n... lees verder >

On New Year’s Eve I can’t help but writing this last bit of 2011: yesterday on a #wp7nl developer’s meet up, which was basically a free-for-all fun hacking event organized by Matthijs Hoekstra, I wrote a little thingy for Windows Phone 7... lees verder >

This blog turns out not only to be a collection of how-to samples but also a record of my evolution as a Windows Phone 7 developer. At the end of my previous post, Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors, I promise... lees verder >

Some time ago I blogged about the Safe Event Detachment ‘pattern’ for behaviors and even included a snippet that made implementing this pattern easier. When I started to use this pattern more often myself I observed quite some code dupli... lees verder >

When I talk of the MVVM pattern, people usually think of business objects that get wrapped by ViewModels which get data bound to a user interface. Usually this is something like a list of people, news, items that can be purchased, whatev... lees verder >

You know that band you used to love when you were in your teens? They really rocked your adolescent years. They rocked like hell. Their concerts where one great party. I would never end. ….except you grew up, the times changed, so did th... lees verder >