windows-8

I'm making my first Windows 8 client. This is also the first time I've used async methods to load a property so please forgive me if this is a noobie question. I have a WCF service and started from the Split Page template in visual studio for the client (but I'm going to pretty much replace everything). When I get the data into my Views directly inside of the "SplitPage" code behind everything is loaded properly and shows up. However, when I try to use MVVM the property doesn't have any items in it when it gets bound. Because of WCF it is an async call to get the data is that the cause of the

I'm developing a Windows 8 Metro-style application and I want to use vector images. As there seems to be no direct support for svg images, I am trying to use a xaml fragment consisting of multiple shapes (a path and some lines) as an image. I would like to have a resource dictionary entry with the composite shape and be able to include it in different pages. Ideally, I would also like to be able to resolve a specific composite shape from a data bound property. From what I've read, the WPF approach was to have a VisualBrush or DrawingBrush consisting of the shapes, but there are no such classes