Do you have an MVVM-based Windows Phone 7 application and you don't like having to hook into the RootFrame to navigate between pages? Do you wish you could just "ask" to navigate to a new view from your view model? One possible solution can be found in my new Channel 9 screencast.

Using an message bus to process navigation messages, view models can publish messages that are then handled by a separate navigation service, successfully decoupling your view model from the Windows Phone navigation service.

Get the finished source code here

Lots of developers are building XAML-based applications today.  Be it WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone 7, I have seen a lot of people struggle with certain tasks in Visual Studio that would be much easier if undertaken in Expression Blend.  Blend seems to be somewhat intimidating to developers, especially those that are already wrestling with learning XAML. Having spent time in both tools, I can tell you that Blend can make three things dramatically easier, and you should learn how to do these three things with Blend, even if you never use it for anything else.

See the video on Channel 9.

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