I recently had the opportunity to speak at Microsoft’s New Era of Work conference in Chicago. Below you’ll find the presentation material, the Real-World Stocks project which demonstrates the principles, and a high-level recap of the lessons learned while practicing the following techniques in actual apps.   Slides A number of slides were provided by Microsoft, and many specifically from Matthias Shapiro. Be sure to check out his blog for more excellent Windows Phone articles!     source For this talk I started with my Real-World...

I’m currently wrapping up a Windows Phone project and thought this would be a good time to share some of the more reusable stuff we needed. Zebra-striping alternate rows This particular app displays a lot of tabular data, so we wanted to zebra-stripe the rows to make them easier to discern. At first we tried using a ValueConverter to get the index of the current container, but this method didn’t end up working with the Telerik DataBoundListBox. Instead, we wrote a simple IndexingObservableCollection that will automatically populate the Index of each item as it’s added to the collection. This method also works with the infinite scrolling feature of Telerik’s listbox – which we actually needed anyway. IndexingObservableCollection To use it, you have to implement the IIndexable interface which ensure an Index property on your model. Then simply replace the ObservableCollection property on your view-model with the following IndexingObservableCollection.public class...