by Peter Daukintis So all that remains is to transition between the login ui to a welcome screen. I guess there are a number of ways of approaching this but I have decided to use the visual state manager. First,…
By Peter Daukintis First we need to create the loading screen user control which is heavily based upon the one used here http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/2010/01/23/iPhone-Sudoku-in-Silverlight-using-MVVM.aspx. It consists of a grid containing eight rectangles which have associated animations that cycle through different greyscales/transparencies.…
by Peter Daukintis Okay, so we haven’t touched on any of the user interface yet but this supports the theory that we should be able to develop the user interface independently of the code. So, these are the areas we…
By Peter Daukintis I decided to explore the Service Locator pattern to implement handling of the busy indicator. This involves considering the busy indicator as a service which can be called upon by the view model. Again it is implemented…
by Peter Daukintis Now, to support the login functionality I will add a password property in exactly the same way (test first) as the username text property from part 2 (http://babaandthepigman.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4F1B7368284539E5!237.entry). Also I will supplement the tests with tests to…
by Peter Daukintis First, I will create a new project in Visual Studio using the MVVM Light project templates (MVVM Light is not a requirement really it just makes the implementation of MVVM less repetitive – any compatible MVVM framework…
by Peter Daukintis Before jumping into Windows Phone 7 development I need to define some ideas about a baseline architecture so I have a clear development direction to move in. This series of posts will document my thinking in this…
by Peter Daukintis Test Driven Development This is a basic introduction to test-driven development describing related technologies in a simple, straightforward way. The learning curve can sometimes appear steep due to the range of associated technologies and architectural concepts that…