I created a quick video to help you get started with using Jounce. The video starts with a blank slate, steps through installation of Jounce and the creation of a sample view model for a simple contact record that includes validation. You can access the video directly at http://vimeo.com/jeremylikness/jounce-getting-started, or view it below: ...

One common request I get is how Jounce can work with the Navigation Framework. My first reply is always, ''Why do you want to use that?'' As you can see in previous posts, the Jounce navigation works perfectly fine with region management to manage your needs. If you want the user to be able to ''deep link'' to a page, you can easily process the ...

Over the next few weeks I will be publishing a series of posts explaining the open source Jounce project that I just released. Jounce provides guidance for building modular Silverlight applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM). Origins I have been building enterprise Silverlight applications ...

After having worked on several major projects that integrated the Managed Extensibility Framework, I thought it might be beneficial to share a retrospective on how it was used what value it provided. These are all ways MEF helped my team build modular Silverlight applications. Unlike my earlier post that covered 10 Reasons to use the Managed ...

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a very powerful tool for building modular, extensible Silverlight applications. If you've followed this blog, you'll know that it is not just for applications that anticipate plug-ins, but can be used as an inversion of control container, can facilitate region management, and much more. In preparing the ...

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 ...