Creating the Windows Phone UI
Thinking back to our prototype, we know that we need two pages within our Phone app: a master “list” page and a details page. When Visual Studio created the Windows Phone 8 project, it added a MainPage.xaml by default. We’ll make that our master list page.
We have a few options for controls to display our list of meals. ListView is a great choice; it’s easy to work with but still provides enough flexibility for multiple line templates, and so on.
The Master Page
With the MainPage open, create a new ListView control within the XAML. You can hand-craft the code or drag the control over from the toolbox. With the control in place, we need to tweak a few things. First, we need to bind the control to the view model that ...
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