Tag: navigation

How to terminate your Windows Phone application programmatically?

Its weird how in Windows Phone API there is no way to easily terminate your current application. I guess makers of the platform did not wanted us developers to mingle with the application lifetime too much, phone should decide when an app is not needed and terminate it. But i just simply cannot help myself, i always like to have full control, for example in my Offline Browser application i want to end the app if user presses the hardware Back Key multiple times in short time intervals...

Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework and Prism to create MVVM Applications – Introduction

This is introductory post for a series of posts where i will try to tackle the holy grail of MVVM applications - Navigation. To do this I will be using Prism from Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team (Silverlight version - latest drop) combined with Silverlight Navigation Framework and i will build small navigation framework on top of that...