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.

Design Time on DVLUP

Creating Design-Time Sample Data