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Windows Phone 8 Development Internals
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Windows Phone 8 Development Internals

by Andrew Whitechapel and Sean McKenna
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1044 pages
30h 57m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 4. Data binding and MVVM

Sooner or later, your app will need to present data in the user interface (UI). Most modern programming frameworks provide mechanisms to make rendering data in the UI simple and robust. At the same time, these frameworks promote better engineering practices by cleanly separating the data from the UI, establishing standard mechanisms for connecting the data and UI in a loosely coupled manner, and ensuring that components consuming the data are conveniently notified of any changes (either initiated in the UI or from the underlying data source) so that the app can take appropriate action. The feature that carries out all this cool behavior is called data binding. This chapter examines the data-binding support in the ...

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