Windows Store - Windows Store C++ for C# Developers: Understanding the Domain

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Modern C++ offers power and performance for developing Windows Store applications, but a blizzard of information and disinformation can stymie C# developers. Bill Kratochvil helps you get started phasing in C++ components where they’ll be most useful.

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MVPVM Design Pattern - The Model-View-Presenter-ViewModel Design Pattern for WPF

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Bill Kratochvil delves deep into the history of design patterns as he presents the advantages of developing extensible enterprise apps with what he calls the MVPVM pattern, inspired by the Microsoft patterns & practices Prism project.

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Multi-Platform Development - Portable Class Libraries: A Primer

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:00:00 GMT

We walk you through a demo application to show how Portable Class Library projects can generate a managed assembly that can be referenced by Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Xbox 360 platforms.

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Multi-Targeting - Build Multi-Targeted Apps for the Desktop, Prism and Windows Phone 7

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Why duplicate efforts when you can use a single codebase to create multi-targeted applications? We walk you through the process, using Prism, dependency injection and patterns such as MVP and MVVM

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