MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and Wpf

by Ryan Vice, Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi

This book combines practical, real-world examples with all the background material and theory you need The concepts are explained with a practical LOB enterprise application that is gradually built through the course of this book. 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. 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.

Genres: Programming

420 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 10, 2012

Reviews

[Jeffrey Hamlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book delves into the history of how we got to MVVM - starting at MVC and MVP drawing a contrast between the view state/logic reusability issues in MVC and then adding interfaces in the MVP - and how we evolved to MVVM using the data binding paradigm - (too wordy - like Microsoft).

Personally I think reading Microsoft documentation is a headache in many cases (especially on their observer patterns) but while the book gets overly deep initially, it does give the type of simple explanation and clarity required to implement the framework. Still working on it, may change my opinion.