10 Rules for Building a Windows Phone App: Listing 2.

An example of UI thread blocking.

public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
{
  // Constructor
  public MainPage()
  {
    InitializeComponent();
    this.Loaded += new System.Windows.RoutedEventHandler(MainPage_Loaded);
  }

  void MainPage_Loaded(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
  {
  // Do something here that takes more than one second and you kill the experience
    Model.GetData();
}
  }

About the Author

Max Zilberman is an architect evangelist at Microsoft on the Developer andPlatform Evangelism team and is available at [email protected].

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