Comments on: Wiring up View and Viewmodel in MVVM and Silverlight 4 – Blendability included http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/ and ideas for its refactoring... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: roboblob http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 roboblob Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:03:06 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1722 Hi, glad it works for you. I will definitely try to post more on the INavigationService approach since it turned out to be better than ViewModelLocator and also i get lot of requests to write about it lately... Thanks for your feedback! Hi,

glad it works for you.
I will definitely try to post more on the INavigationService approach since it turned out to be better than ViewModelLocator and also i get lot of requests to write about it lately…
Thanks for your feedback!

]]> By: Per Åkerberg http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 Per Åkerberg Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:34:01 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1718 Hey there, I really enjoy all your posts on SL and MVVM. Keep it up! I was curious to know about the other solution you had and if I could use it. I just got this one working and kind of like it, although I don't like having to create a new class for each viewmodel to locate it, but I guess thats a trade-off for getting this good thing to work! By the way, the "d:DataContext" thing only seems nescessary in VS 2010 design mode, not for Blend 4. Blend works fine without it. Please come back with more info on the other approach, I am really interested! Thanks alot for your work. Hey there,

I really enjoy all your posts on SL and MVVM. Keep it up!
I was curious to know about the other solution you had and if I could use it. I just got this one working and kind of like it, although I don’t like having to create a new class for each viewmodel to locate it, but I guess thats a trade-off for getting this good thing to work!

By the way, the “d:DataContext” thing only seems nescessary in VS 2010 design mode, not for Blend 4. Blend works fine without it.

Please come back with more info on the other approach, I am really interested!

Thanks alot for your work.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Mike Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:57:17 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1642 Like everyone else, I'm struggling with the ViewModelLocator implementation. I'm definitely interested in your solution and look forward to the write up! Like everyone else, I’m struggling with the ViewModelLocator implementation. I’m definitely interested in your solution and look forward to the write up!

]]> By: How to bind ViewModel to View (part 1) – the Lite toolkit way - Adiel Sharabi http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1536 How to bind ViewModel to View (part 1) – the Lite toolkit way - Adiel Sharabi Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:57:28 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1536 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: roboblob http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 roboblob Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:24:24 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1190 Hi Sam, yes ViewModelLocator definitely has its problems. I have completely abandoned that approach and have a working stable implementation of small MVVM framework that uses IViewNavigationService that you can call and just pass a name of the View, or a ViewModel type and it automatically finds appropriate View/ViewModel, wires them up and then shows on screen. It works with little bit extended Silverlight NavigationFramework. Problem is that i cannot find time these days to put together nice blog post about this. Hopefully i will do that soon and then you can use this as inspiration for similar adventures. If you are interested contact me directly on webmaster [a t] roboblob dot com and i will send you the code that i managed to put together so far. Good luck and thanks for your feedback! Hi Sam,
yes ViewModelLocator definitely has its problems.
I have completely abandoned that approach and have a working stable implementation of small MVVM framework that uses IViewNavigationService that you can call and just pass a name of the View, or a ViewModel type and it automatically finds appropriate View/ViewModel, wires them up and then shows on screen.
It works with little bit extended Silverlight NavigationFramework.
Problem is that i cannot find time these days to put together nice blog post about this.
Hopefully i will do that soon and then you can use this as inspiration for similar adventures.
If you are interested contact me directly on webmaster [a t] roboblob dot com and i will send you the code that i managed to put together so far.

Good luck and thanks for your feedback!

]]> By: Sam Mueller http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 Sam Mueller Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:03 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1187 Hey Rob, I have been struggling with the clumsiness of the ViewModelLocator as well, and have been searching for a more elegant concept. Can you tell me more about the navigation service concept? I'm very interested in new ideas to the challenge of wiring up and instantiation of view models. Thanks! Sam Hey Rob,
I have been struggling with the clumsiness of the ViewModelLocator as well, and have been searching for a more elegant concept. Can you tell me more about the navigation service concept? I’m very interested in new ideas to the challenge of wiring up and instantiation of view models.

Thanks!
Sam

]]> By: roboblob http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 roboblob Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:58:14 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1108 Thanks for your feedback. Yes you dont get much of Blendability that way... better is to use d:DataContext for blendability while in bootstrapper keep real entities, but in order for this to work, all Views need clean default constructor, no dependencies in it. Hope it helps. Cheers. Thanks for your feedback.

Yes you dont get much of Blendability that way… better is to use d:DataContext for blendability while in bootstrapper keep real entities, but in order for this to work, all Views need clean default constructor, no dependencies in it.

Hope it helps.
Cheers.

]]> By: Sean http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Sean Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:48:12 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1107 On second thought, I don't think that's very blendable. =/ On second thought, I don’t think that’s very blendable. =/

]]> By: Sean http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Sean Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:44:13 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-1106 Just thinking out loud here... Would it be possible to do the InDesignMode switch in the Bootstrap? Something like: public static void InitializeIoc() { if (InDesignMode) { // Register all mock services } else { // Register all real services } Just thinking out loud here… Would it be possible to do the InDesignMode switch in the Bootstrap?

Something like:

public static void InitializeIoc() {

if (InDesignMode) {
// Register all mock services
}
else {
// Register all real services
}

]]> By: roboblob http://blog.roboblob.com/2010/01/17/wiring-up-view-and-viewmodel-in-mvvm-and-silverlight-4-blendability-included/comment-page-1/#comment-431 roboblob Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:01:00 +0000 http://blog.roboblob.com/?p=41#comment-431 Thanks! Stay tuned since more MVVM goodness is yet to come :D Thanks!

Stay tuned since more MVVM goodness is yet to come :D

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