MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

If you re using Silverlight and WPF, then employing the MVVM pattern can make a powerful difference to your projects, reducing code and bugs in one. This book is an invaluable resource for serious developers.

Key Features

• Build an enterprise application using Silverlight and WPF, taking advantage of the powerful MVVM pattern, with this book and e-book
• Discover the evolution of presentation patternsóby exampleóand see the benefits of MVVM in the context of the larger picture of presentation patterns
• Customize the MVVM pattern for your projects' needs by comparing the various implementation styles

Book Description

What you will learn

• Maximize separation of concerns by taking advantage of WPF and Silverlight s rich binding system, templates, and commanding infrastructure
• Discover the built-in support for MVVM in Entity Framework and WCF
• Create unit testable user interfaces the MVVM way
• Work in parallel with minimal dependencies by creating blendable architectures
• Solve common MVVM problems both with and without frameworks depending on your preference
• Extend your architecture and test it by using inversion of control frameworks
• Tackle complex designs by using hierarchical view model design and mediators
• Reduce the amount of code in your user interface by letting the WPF and Silverlights binding system eliminate your need to do things like casting controls and dispatching
• Best practices for dealing with collections
• Create designs that allow for dramatically changing your user interface without having to change code outside the view using data templates

Who this book is for

This book will be a valuable resource for Silverlight and WPF developers who want to fully maximize the tools with recommended best practices for enterprise development. This is an advanced book and you will need to be familiar with C#, the .Net framework, and Silverlight or WPF.