New Post: Multiple Platforms
This too shows the awesomeness of the Pattern and Practice team; while many of the other teams at Microsoft works in perfect secrecy expecting the world just trust what they are building and will...
View ArticleNew Post: podcast - Builds LOB Apps with Kona Guidance
The conversation digs into the evolution of 'Prism for WinRT' into Kona, and how they are substantially different because Windows Stores are substantially different. The specifics about Windows Store...
View ArticleNew Post: Multiple Platforms
There are some really cool features to WinRT. Native code support and DirectX integration are really huge in my view. But the gap needs to be closed to make WinRT a real boy in terms of LOB types of...
View ArticleNew Post: UI composition (through composition of ViewModels)
You mention that you can do UI Composition through composition of ViewModel, and if I'm not mistaken you are showing it in the Kona Adventure Work App CheckoutHubPage.xaml , but what if I didn't want...
View ArticleNew Post: Will Kona run on Windows RT?
Are there any limitations with Windows RT or special considerations for this application/guidance?
View ArticleNew Post: Will Kona run on Windows RT?
We have not yet tested it on Windows RT though it should work fine.
View ArticleNew Post: UI composition (through composition of ViewModels)
Hi Gene, We are doing something similar to the scenario you proposed, but using DataTemplates instead of UserControls. Basically, we set a collection of ViewModels in a ListView's ItemsSource, that...
View ArticleNew Post: UI composition (through composition of ViewModels)
Thanks Mariano, I'll take a closer look
View ArticleNew Post: CSLA and Kona
Anybody using CSLA.net with Kona, and could tell me how they solve the error rendering in the UI using Kona's IValidatableBindableBase ?
View ArticleNew Post: CSLA and Kona
Can you be more specific? what errors? how does your models/viewmodles looks like when you are using CSLA.net?
View ArticleNew Post: Any plans to involve WinJS apps in the mix?
It seems that all this code is based on C#/XAML. Are there any places to provide guidance for WinJS apps?
View ArticleNew Post: Any plans to involve WinJS apps in the mix?
The Hilo JavaScript Project demonstrates using the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern with Windows 8. Are there other capabilities in Kona that you are interested in using with WinJS? Blaine
View ArticleNew Post: Navigation Issue
I'm working an app that has the following flow: List -> Item Detail -> Item Editor One of the things you can do in the Item Editor is delete the item. If this happens the you should end up back...
View ArticleNew Post: Using Kona in production environment
I am planning to use Kona in my client project. But its in preview version shall i still use it in the project ? Please guide me on this.
View ArticleNew Post: Using Kona in production environment
Karthikeyan860, This is entirely your decision. We are close to finishing the project. We still have a few bugs to fix but most of the bugs are in the reference implementation and not the library. We...
View ArticleNew Post: Disconnected behavior
Any plan of adding a behavior to support offline mode or display an example of how that situation should be handled in that scenario?
View ArticleNew Post: Nuget Package
Will you guys be shipping a Nuget package as part of your release?
View ArticleNew Post: Nuget Package
The current plan is to ship a Nuget package of the source code.
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