MVVM survival guide for enterprise architectures in Silverlight and WPF : eliminate unnecessary code by taking advantage of the MVVM pattern - less code, fewer bugs / Ryan Vice, Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vice, Ryan.

Contributor:

Siddiqi, Muhammad Shujaat.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silverlight (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Management information systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Model View View Model survival guide for enterprise architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Eliminate unnecessary code by taking advantage of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight and WPF using this book and eBook - less code, fewer bugs

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Presentation Patterns; The Project Billing sample application; Types of state; History of presentational patterns; Monolithic design; The problems with monolithic design; Data service stub; Monolithic Project Billing sample; ProjectsView; Running the sample; Takeaways; Rapid application development; RAD Project Billing sample; Takeaways; MVC; View; Controller; Model; Layered design; The layers; MVC with layered design; MVC Project Billing sample; Model

ControllerView; How it works; Takeaways; Memory leaks; MVP; MVP Project Billing sample; Model; View; Presenter; Main window; How it works; Takeaways; Summary; Chapter 2: Introduction to MVVM; History; Structure; Pure MVVM; View; View Model; WPF and Silverlight enablers; Dependency Properties; Dependency property inheritance; Rich data binding; INotifyCollectionChanged and ObservableCollection; Automatic dispatching; Triggers; Styles; Control Templates; Data templates; Commands; MVVM project billing sample; MVVM design; View Models; Model; Code; ProjectsModel; ProjectViewModel

ProjectsViewModelWPF UI; Silverlight UI; Benefits of MVVM; MVVM and humble views; Issues and pain points of MVVM; MVVM Light; Summary; Chapter 3: Northwind - Foundations; Northwind requirements; Presentation tier foundation; Locator pattern; Data access tier; Listing the customers; Unit testing getting customers; Using an isolation framework; Adding tabs; Viewing customer details; Viewing details for one customer; Testing CustomerDetailsViewModel; Wiring up the customer list box; Testing ShowCustomerDetails(); Summary; Chapter 4: Northwind-Services and Persistence Ignorance

Adding a Service LayerIntegrating the Service Layer; Persistence ignorance and custom models; Trade-offs of generated models; Adding persistence ignorance; Adding unit tests; Summary; Chapter 5: Northwind-Commands and User Inputs; Pure MVVM; Making it easier with frameworks; Updating customer details; Testing and updating customer details; Gestures, events, and commands; InputBindings; KeyBinding; MouseBinding; Using code behind; Event to command; Attached Behavior; Using MVVM Light; Summary; Chapter 6: Northwind-Hierarchical View Model and IoC; Adding orders to customer details

Service layerApplication layer; Presentation layer; View Models; Views; Take aways; Viewing order details; ToolManager; Inversion of Control frameworks; IoC designs; Adding an IoC container to Northwind; Order details; Summary; Chapter 7: Dialogs and MVVM; Should we make a compromise?; Dialog service; Using DataTemplates with DialogService; Convention over configuration; Mediators; Attached behaviors; Summary; Chapter 8: Workflow-based MVVM Applications; WF for business rules execution; Handling delays in rules execution; WF for controlling application flow; Summary; Chapter 9: Validation

Validations and dependency properties

Notes:

Includes index.

"Professional expertise distilled".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613861573

9781283549127

1283549123

9781849683432

1849683433

OCLC:

808670861