null controls during page load

One program I've been seeing quite a bit with Reunion 0.5.5 is that some controls are null when I reference them from the constuctor.

Solution: I put all of the referenced controls into a DispatchTimer event (which is a timer that runs on the UI thread). Then I created a flag which is only set at the end of the timer function. At the beginning of the timer function call:

if (this.IsLoaded == false)
{
        return;
}

This will effectively keep having a stab at it until all the controls are available to be referenced. Once the full body of code has been run then the timer can switch itself off.

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