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Setting up a maintainable windows phone development project in Visual Studio 2008

Posted on 14 October 2009 by Alexander Viken

In this post i share what is my experience, and what i have found to work for me as a best practice for setting up my projects and software structure when developing windows phone applications in Visual Studio 2008.

Basically I am  applying some Model-View-Presenter principles tweaked for simplicity and dividing the different parts into separate projects.

The Model-View-Presenter software design pattern is in my opinion the easiest pattern to use. It is also easy to get going with if you`re not familiar with the jungle of three or four letter acronym patterns and support frameworks available.

Patterns are important and you should use them! By applying, in this case a MVP pattern we can easily handle the rapid changes in new hardware, screen form factors, UX requirements and connectivity requirements to back-end systems. Continue Reading

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About the author, Alexander Viken
Working as Chief Mobility Consultant at Creuna Norway. I received MSFT MVP for Device Application Development in June 2010 and are interested in mobility trends, the market, technology, software development for Windows Phone, iOS and Android mostly, but not exclusively. Scrum master that fights to keep it lean.
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