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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683425
Pages 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Presentation Patterns 2. Introduction to MVVM 3. Northwind – Foundations 4. Northwind—Services and Persistence Ignorance 5. Northwind—Commands and User Inputs 6. Northwind—Hierarchical View Model and IoC 7. Dialogs and MVVM 8. Workflow-based MVVM Applications 9. Validation 10. Using Non-MVVM Third-party Controls 11. MVVM Application Performance MVVM Frameworks
Binding at a Glance Index

Presentation tier foundation


Let's start things off by creating the visual layout of our application by following these steps:

  1. Start a new Visual Studio instance.

  2. Create a new WPF application project called Northwind.UI.WPF, and name the solution Northwind.

  3. Add a folder to Northwind.UI.WPF called Skins, and add a new Resource Dictionary (WPF) file to that folder called MainSkin.xaml.

  4. Open MainWindow.xaml for editing and update it as follows:

    <Window x:Class="Northwind.UI.WPF.MainWindow"
            xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/
            2006/xaml/presentation"
            xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
            Title="MainWindow"
            MinHeight="350"
            MinWidth="525"
            xmlns:ViewModel="clr-namespace:Northwind.ViewModel;
            assembly=Northwind.ViewModel"
            DataContext="{Binding 
                Source={x:Static 
                ViewModel:ViewModelLocator
                    .MainWindowViewModelStatic}}">
        <Window.Resources>
            <ResourceDictionary...
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