App Studio - Design-Time Sample Data

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re like me, you like to fiddle and tweak things to get just the right result . Recently, Microsoft has really beefed up App Studio apps and if you explore the downloaded source code you’ll see a new Universal app structure leveraging MVVM. Let’s start with the before and after photo (click any image to view larger):

Before and after changes to the items lists

Creating Design-Time Sample Data

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

One of the best things you can have when developing a Windows Phone app is design-time sample data. I will show you in this post how to create sample data from a class using Blend. (click images to view larger)

You can apply this technique to an existing class you have, but for the purposes of this tutorial I’ll be using a File > New Visual Studio 2013 Windows Phone project. If you have an existing app, you can skip to Step 3, but I recommend skimming the first two.

Blend on DVLUP

App Studio - Design-Time Sample Data

Creating Design-Time Sample Data