Project Description

Liphofra is short for "Little Phone Framework" because I'm really bad at thinking of fancy names for my projects. It is an extract and reworked collection of all sorts of helpers and supporting types I used over the years in projects for Windows Phone to help with creating MVVM projects on the platform.

What's in the package?

I'm open to suggestions and will extend the framework with useful things when I come across them.

News

2013-11-06:

Liphofra version 2.2.1 is now available as NuGet package (package id is "liphofra").

Background

A lot of people ask me about what frameworks and components I recommend on Windows Phone, and they often are surprised when they learn I don't use an out-of-the-box MVVM framework. Naturally the next question is: why? The truth is that there are a lot of very good and popular frameworks out there, and without providing a list of them, I still recommend that you check out what's available before you make a decision. My personal choice to not use any of them mostly is based on the following reasons:

So, if you are looking for maximum code reuse and a multi-platform framework, Liphofra is not for you. If you want to have a highly specialized framework for Windows Phone, give it a try.