I recently had the need to change the state of a MediaElement to coincide with other page functionality. You can easily change the state of a MediaElement from the code-behind but you can’t unit test this. At first I thought, it would be easy to just bind the CurrentState property to a ViewModel property but …
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I have been working on my second application for the last two weeks and wanted to share some code. As stated before, I’m really enjoying the MVVM pattern and how it makes code more testable. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to test touch interaction with the phone but was able to work …
I have been working on my WP7 app now for around 6 weeks. I’m not completely happy with it yet but I have good set of base functionality. For the first 4 weeks I couldn’t run my app in the emulator from the start screen or the app list. I had to start the app …
So I had blogged a couple weeks ago how I was getting non-descript IsolatedStorageExceptions. Not knowing the reason for the exception is super irritating. As you can see from the exception details there is no indication of the root cause, only that the “operation” is not permitted. I found you can use the immediate window …
Currently trying to fix a memory leak. Don’t have a lot of experience troubleshooting these so figured I would post about. The memory leak occurs when you replay a MediaElement in the MediaEnded event. I started with a new WP7 app added the following xaml to the page: <MediaElement AutoPlay=”True” Source=”MyShortMovie.wmv” MediaEnded=”MediaElement_MediaEnded”/> and the following …
As you know I haven’t been able to unit test my ViewModels since I updated to the beta tools. With the April CTP I was able to use a c# class library with standard NUnit, updated system references and ReSharper to run the tests. After updating to the beta tools I got the following errors: …