Even if you don't use Jounce, this post will help you better understand how to create non-shared views and view models with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). The architecture I prefer in Silverlight is to keep a shared view and view model where possible. If only one instance of the view is visible at a time, the view model can be ...

In this second installment about the Jounce framework, I'll share how to get started with Jounce and wire your first view bound to a view model. The Jounce project is available online at http://Jounce.Codeplex.com. Jounce injects itself as a service to the application. In my opinion, using IApplicationService is the right way to handle start ...

The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. While I've participated in lots of discussions online about MVVM, it occurred to me that beginners who are learning the pattern have very little to go on and a lot of conflicting resources to wade through in order to try to implement it in their own ...

This is a video tutorial to introduce beginners to how to use both MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) with Silverlight (should work for versions 3 and 4). Of course, some ''veterans'' may want to watch as well in case you've missed some of the fundamentals, or have a clever way to do something that you can share ...

In yesterday's post about Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs in Silverlight using Prism, I demonstrated a way to use EventAggregator to decouple the implementation of a dialog from the code that requires the confirmation. In one example, I showed a code-behind click event that fired off the process, something like this: private void ...