There are several major architectural approaches used in building user interfaces. MVC, MVP and MVVM seam to be the most popular of the bunch. From among them, MVVM has risen to the top of the stack for WPF and Silverlight developers. Even ignoring the question “Why use separated presentation at...
If you are interested in presentation patterns, Jeremy Miller , Ward Bell , Glenn Block and myself discuss the subject on the latest Herding Code (57).
As a follow-up to my last post on MVVM , I want to further investigate the ViewModel as a concept. In commenting on my blog, one reader describes a ViewModel as “a UI oriented abstraction of the model.” In that sense, he is saying that a ViewModel (VM) is simply a contextual “View of...
I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed since RC1, its quite significant: Added the...
There’s been a lot of talk lately about MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in the WPF and Silverlight space. Recently, Ward Bell had an interesting post on the subject where he digs into some of the patterns he is using to support his MVVM triads. The WPF/Silverlight community is constantly droning MVVM...