Tag: ViewModel

Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework and Prism to create MVVM Applications – Introduction

MVVM, Prism Navigation Framework, Programming, SilverlightSlobodan Pavkov18 Comments
This is introductory post for a series of posts where i will try to tackle the holy grail of MVVM applications - Navigation. To do this I will be using Prism from Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team (Silverlight version - latest drop) combined with Silverlight Navigation Framework and i will build small navigation framework on top of that...

Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4

MVVM, Programming, SilverlightSlobodan Pavkov18 Comments
In all my previous MVVM in Silverlight 4 posts i was avoiding to address one painful aspect of the Silverlight: calling WCF Web Services. And it was not without reason. Lets face it, consuming WCF Web Services from your Silverlight application can be pretty hard. I mean hard to do it in a clean way off course. Yes we all know how to create a Silverlight enabled WCF Web Service from Visual Studio but things become messy from that point. First question is how to invoke methods of the web service? Should we use Add Web Service Reference from the Visual…

Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4

MVVM, Programming, SilverlightSlobodan Pavkov33 Comments
In previous two posts we covered wiring up the Views and ViewModels and Blendability and showing ModalDialogs in MVVM way. Today we will touch another problem that people starting with MVVM very often fail to address properly: Handling the UI Events of the View in the ViewModel while avoiding placing any logic in code behind of the View. So our design goals for this post are: We want to be able to wire-up UI Events to the commands in ViewModel via DataBinding in Xaml without any code behind in the View View should not be aware of the ViewModel’s type…
Copyright © 2024 by Roboblob