MVVM

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rocky is the creator of CSLA .NET, one of the most widely used development frameworks…

Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx

In this episode, Brian Noyes discusses strategies for building Silverlight business applications. Brian is an advisor working with the Patterns and Practices team on the current and future versions of Prism. John and Brian discuss what Prism is, when to use it, when not to use it, and…

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during your favorite sporting events?  Chyron is the industry leader in all aspects of providing graphics for TV programming.  Jim Cirone sits down with Jeff Wolski, Sumit Sahni and Daniel…

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore UI architectural patterns, such as the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, with two Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg. Christopher and Rob share their experiences developing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)…

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their…

Don't look now, but there's a new pattern in town - Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM.  Within the last year or so, this architectural model has been building up a significant following among Silverlight and WPF developers.  In this session, Jim O'Neil, Developer  Evangelist, will…

What is MVVM and why do people keep talking about it?  Karl Shifflett explains why its buzz worthy and why you should consider it as a design pattern for your application development.  Karl discusses improved unit testability (including UI testing), full separation and…

Ever wonder how the experts organize their XAML-based projects? With the help of Jaime Rodriguez, the WPF guy on my team, we've put together a 3 part video series on XAML Guidelines. The videos along with a whitepaper available at the end of this week answer questions like "How do you…

Nikhil Kothari has posted a a sample application that demonstrates a ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight.  As an added bonus the sample uses the New York Times Newswire API, and is running on teh Silverlight.FX framework.