Understand why the separation of an applications view and its model is paramount, including the history of modelviewpresenter and modelviewcontroller. Introduction to modelviewview model pattern using wpf. Effective application development with model viewviewmodel. Moving forward, adoption of the modelviewview model pattern becomes almost mandatory. With this handson guide, youll use mvvm with data binding, commands, and behaviors to create user interfaces loosely coupled to business logic. While it is not printed in color, it does give a great insight into how wpf works. While some technology books can be so indepth and written so technically as to make them unreadable, thankfully this author has struck a good balance between technical detail and readability. This book was conceived from a need to explain the mvvm pattern and how it helps structure wpf and silverlight applications. If i was writing a book on mvvm i doubt readers would need chapters giving overviews of wpfsilverlight, unit testing or data access layers. While it is possible to combine layers and place business logic in the interface logic, this has serious drawbacks and limitations.
I personally felt that this was a lacking area in mvvm discussions, which was what led me to write my series on mvvm and wpf from a windows forms developer perspective. Oct 31, 2010 pro wpf and silverlight mvvm will show you how to arrange your application so that it can grow as much as required in any direction without danger of collapse. The book covers a multitude of mvvm, wpf, and other architectural topics using the example of a small game that was written following mvvm. This is the third mvvm book ive tried, and while it is better than the. It has almost no xaml information, instead devoting to unit testing, program design, and other irrelevant topics. Advanced mvvm is a brief stroll through the model view viewmodel architecture for wpf silverlight applications. And, of course, youll find the same deep and unique insights pete provides in his silverlight books. Effective application development with modelviewviewmodel by gary hall the book is well written, easy to read and informative. Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. A better title would be an introduction to mvvm, with some random bits of wpfsilverlight. Mvvm offers lots of design choices and the author shows examples of each of these approaches, by changing the code to achieve the same results. You would be much better off with macdonalds book on wpf or halls book on pro wpf and silverlight mvvm. Dec 29, 2010 pro wpf and silverlight mvvm will show you how to arrange your application so that it can grow as much as required in any direction without danger of collapse. Join our community just now to flow with the file apresspro.
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Effective application development with modelviewviewmodel by gary hall at over 30 bookstores. Hi, i tried installing all the latest silverlight tools for visual studio from the link provided by you but it didnt worked. May 05, 2011 hi, i tried installing all the latest silverlight tools for visual studio from the link provided by you but it didnt worked. They have been built to a new paradigm that if harnessed correctly can yield unprecedented power and performance. If i was writing a book on mvvm i doubt readers would need chapters giving overviews of wpf silverlight, unit testing or data access layers. Building enterprise applications with windows presentation. Windows presentation foundation wpf is a key component of the.
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A totally simple introduction to the mvvm concept with. The odd thing about this book is the intended target audience. Effective application development with modelviewviewmodel experts voice in wpf ebook. Gary mclean hall wpf and silverlight are unlike any other user interface ui technologies. What i got was a very light, skimming introduction to wpfsilverlight, and programming in general, with some mvvmrelated topics thrown in here and there for good measure. Either book has more about xaml in the first chapter than this does in the entire book.
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