MVVM is a central concept in WPF, Silverlight, WindowsPhone and Windows 8 development, so I decided to take some time and bubble up some of the content in the WPF MVVM Toolkit , which we created some time ago. Model-View separation is by no means a novel idea in the software engineering industry—the...

I have had a Samsung Focus WP7 device for several months now and I absolutely love it. I love the hardware (fantastic bright display, sleek look, etc.), I love the Metro UI, and I love the development tools. VS 2010 and Silverlight for WP7 are a ton of fun. Like many of you I patiently waited for the...

Update : Shortly after I posted this article, Peter Henry noted that he had a very similar article out already. Here is the link to it – it has good additional information – check it out: http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/389/Default.aspx So you got your Windows Phone 7 device, you downloaded...