Hi Viv,

>>I have been wanting to get a better handle on development using MVVM with WPF & Silverlight and trying to find good educational material. One book I have indicates using MVP but for the UI portion to use MVVM. What? That is confusing, then why have the M or VM?
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>Sounds a bit daft. What's the book?
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>>I saw what looks like a good book on this coming - "Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View_ViewModel" by Gary Hall (an Apress book) but it isn't scheduled to release until October.
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>Looks like that might be interesting......
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>>What or where is all the good stuff for learning the best practices to implement MVVM with WPF?
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx for a good overview with example code. Beyond that there just seems to be a lot of 'bitty' examples on the web. I guess the good news is that if you write WPF apps with *no* code-behind for XAML pages/windows etc. and rely purely on databinding to the DataContext then you are, almost by definition, already using MVVM. AFAICS, the only bits missing from WPF are
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>(a) a delegate command structure that can work outside the WPF logical tree and
>(b) a pattern to deal with messageboxes / modaldialogs
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>UPDATE: There's also this :http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/advanced-mvvm/
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>Best,
>Viv

I only recently started working with WPF in any real effort and I got the basics of Xaml. Now I need to figure out how to architect it correctly so started looking. I did see Josh's e-book but at 51 pages and the titled of "Advanced" I was looking for something more entry level. At 15 bucks it is worth getting regardless.

I also had seen Josh's article from MSDN but forgot about it when I was looking for a more in depth book. Thanks for pointing me back to this as it will be a good starting point. I get the drift of MVVM no problem, but trying to apply the hookups directly with WPF is the challenge to learn.

Thanks again
Tim