Windows Store App Design-time DataContext
问题 I've been a XAML developer for years now but this one has stumped me. I've been sleeping badly so maybe I'm being dense. Just orientating myself with Windows Store apps, I noticed that the LayoutAwarePage has a DefaultViewModel these days, which is nice but I it gets set only at runtime. Really, we need a DataContext established during design time to see real fake data. So after failing with some more convoluted ViewModel hook-up code, I am down to this and it doesn't work: public sealed