MVVM

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…

In this 4 part series, Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk from patterns and practices shows you how to build a modular application using the recently released Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 (also known as Prism V2).   Part 3.…

Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss using MVVM with Silverlight. Laurent and John discuss their experiences with MVVM and how Laurent's experiences inspired him to create his MVVM Light Toolkit. If you have been meaning to get into MVVM…

Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss his latest additions to the MVVM Light toolkit for both Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone. Laurent covers several new features, including IoC (Inversion of Control) containers, new ways to implement…

We've all cringed as a hopelessly out of tune contestant appears on the latest episode of “American Idol.” Occasionally, there's a contestant who manages to be pitch perfect all the way through—right until they flub the final note. And in the cutthroat world of televised auditions, sing one…

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…

The Silverlight Geek himself, Jesse Liberty, appears on Silverlight TV and explores the Silverlight Hyper Video Platform (SLHVP). Jesse explains how SLHVP got off the ground and how it has evolved into a successful open source project. He explains how MVVM, unit testing, MEF, and many other solid…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling) [2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar) [3:33] Visual Studio…

Taking user feedback about the application into consideration, it’s time to make some improvements! J Here are some of the reports we got from the users: The application is too slow when exchanging currencies It uses too much data traffic/should cache the exchange rates It doesn’t work for some…