MVVM Episode 1 - by _Maxxx_
MVVM seems, to me, to be the best way to develop applications that are both flexible - allowing changes to the GUI without complex rewrites, and allowing testing of the client logic without needing to resort to complex macros.
In this series of articles, I will present a small application in WPF, using an enhanced MVV pattern that I'm calling MVVM#.
So, what's different about my implementation? The main things are:
- Message Tracking: When a message is sent, we now know if it has been handled.
- Cancellable messages: A ViewModel can stop the message being sent further down the chain.
- Easy Peasy Modal Dialog windows
- No 'Main window': Everything is a View.
- Use of a Controller: The Controller controls the application.
- Easy to use Design Time Data for 'Blendability'
- Use of ViewData for binding data to a View, as well as a ViewModel to bind behaviour to a view.
In this article, I introduce the topics, and ideas, and explain some of the differences. In the second article, I'll show the way I set up any project using MVVM#, creating the base classes ready to begin the application specific development. In the third article, I'll add sufficient meat to the bones created in article 2 to give us a running application, albeit one that doesn't do too much. In the fourth article, I'll finish off the application to show a (small) but functioning application demonstrating some of the functions available.
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Post Contributed by: Kunal Chowdhury
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Kunal is the Site Admin and Contributor of Silverlight-Zone. He is a Software Engineer, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Code Project Mentor and a Code Project MVP. He is also an active Author in SilverlightShow.net and a speaker in various community events. He works on Microsoft Platform and very passionate about Silverlight technology. He started his career in 2007 and achieved various awards during his professional life.
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