I’ve gotten rather fond of using the Reactive Extensions for populating my data from the web in my Windows Phone applications. They provide a lot of flexibility and the code stays in a readable form. To demonstrate in a traditional MVVM model, let’s drop some movie information from Netflix onto our Windows...

Not the guidelines you must follow in order to pass the Marketplace ingestion process - these are the guidelines you should keep in mind and follow in order to make your app fit in well with the overall Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI. Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00 The look and...