Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps: not your typical MVVM session!
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This evening the main topic will be taking a look at practical use of MVVM. However we'll start the event by having two short talks on Windows 8 app development experience.
Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps
For some time now, the community has been touting the MVVM pattern as being the best way to build XAML-based applications. By now, you should be convinced that MVVM is really the way to go. But then, you start building a real-world Windows 8 application and you encounter all kinds of challenges you hadn’t thought about before. How do I properly structure an application? How do I implement navigation? How do I manage tiles or contracts from MVVM? How do I use Dependency injection correctly? And how do the new data controls in Windows 8 work in combination with MVVM?
A whole list of questions that this session by Gill Cleeren (http://twitter.com/gillcleeren) will aim at answering!
Designing a Modern business app based on an existing data model
Martin Howes (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/martinhowes) is the designer of Risk Registrar, a business app which joined the Windows Store in April.
Martin will talk about his experience of taking the data model from a WPF MVVM Windows Desktop program and designing a "Modern" user interface to go with it.
Developing a Windows 8 application with F#
We've seen apps built using C#, C++ and JavaScript before. Gustavo Guerra (https://twitter.com/ovatsus) will talk about his experience developing the "Learn On The Go" Windows 8 application with F#.
Beer & pizza to be provided.