Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Walking Through the Bookshop Sample Application

This chapter’s sample app provides the beginnings of a simple data driven e-commerce app that demonstrates the use of navigation, transient and persistent state, image caching, and WCF services. It allows the user to select from a list of books, retrieved from a WCF service, and to view each item’s details on a separate details page.

The ProductsViewModel class retrieves a list of Product objects from a WCF service. Each product has various properties such as a description, price, and an image URI.

The ProductsViewModel saves and restores its own transient state consisting of the list of products it retrieves from the WCF service (see Listing 3.8).

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