Windows RT
Dependency injection with Autofac and MVVM Light in Xamarin
You gotta have MVVM A developer and his tools are inseparable. We all like SOLID and every (.NET) developer has his or her favourite dependency injection tool. There is a lot to choose from. I like Autofac because of the way it handles modules, the lifetime of a type and how it registers types.
Queue for MessageDialog in Windows RT
When I write Windows Store applications, I use MessageDialog a lot. It’s the easiest way to show a quick informative pop-up message or a question to the user. However, when you tend to use this quite often, you’ll probably run into a problem. The Windows Runtime framework doesn’t allow you to stack MessageDialogs, queue them etc. So if you need to display one, you’ll have to make sure that no other MessageDialog is already open. Checking if there is an open MessageDialog is not that easy unless you keep references to all the MessageDialogs you create. There are a few cases in which this would be annoying.