Use Converters in your Windows Phone Apps

In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app. To some extent XAML handles this task well, but from time to time just markup is not enough and one needs to introduce a portion of imperative code to present data nicely. To make this possible each binding in a XAML-based app may specify a converter, which will be responsible for transforming data between internal and external representations.