Monday, May 4, 2009

WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit

The WPF team at Microsoft has released a toolkit (version 0.1) that addresses developing UIs with the M-V-VM pattern.

It's definitely a first-pass (e.g. no VB.NET support), but they are looking for feedback on this effort. There is also a bit of confusion as to how this compares to the Silverlight development pattern in RIA Services. See this StackOverflow discussion.

The toolkit includes:

  • A Visual Studio 2008 template (Visual C# Express 2008 also supported)
  • Documentation
    • General introduction to M-V-VM
    • Walkthrough using the VS template
  • A complete WPF application demonstrating the M-V-VM pattern

Here's a post about ViewModel and how it enhances the UI's testability.

Check it out here: WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit


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