What examples exist of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Model View ViewModel (MVVM) that include sample database connections?
you could have a look at those:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPF_MVVM_DB_Access.aspx
or just this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mvvm+database
The BookLibrary (WPF MVVM) sample application of the WPF Application Framework (WAF) uses the Entity Framework in combination with a SQL CE database.
I would recommend Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern publish by Microsoft.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145309686.do#tab_04_0
you can find the source code here
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735650923-files/
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I have a Silverlight class library which is a model in my MVVM app. I am using MVVM Light. How easy is it reuse that model in a WPF app and use the MVVM Light framework. The framework has different dlls for WPF and Silverlight so I guess there is incompatability of sorts. I was wondering if anyone could talk me through the options. Cheers, Chris.
The suggested option is to use the Project Linker, this tool synchronizes code over multiple projects, allowing you to maintain a Silverlight and WPF dll with one codebase.
I hope you mean model means data in WPF and Silverlight. If that is the case, you can expose the data using a Service. It can be any service like web service, WCF service or WCF RIA service. Since a service can be multi tenented you can have a Silverlight as well as WPF client accessing the same service.
If you are trying to share the ViewModels between Silverlight and WPF using MVVM light, I would suggest you have a look at the MIX 2011 video of the presentation by the creator of MVVMLight library Laurent Bugnion. This is called Deep Dive MVVM and is a very good session. In short you can share ViewModels between WPF and Silverlight by adding the file from one project to another as a "LINK".
Hope this helps
These both are same or different ?
How to develop silverlight in visual studio 2008 ?
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How to develop silverlight application in visual studio 2008 ?
Both WPF and Silverlight uses what is called XAML to define what the interface / GUI should look like. WPF and Silverlight are both Presentation Layers used on different areas.
WPF is used for Windows based applications whereas Silverlight is used for Web based applications.
Read this blog post about "When should I use WPF vs Silverlight?" over at MSDN.
You can think about Silverlight like a subset of WPF, but there is one main difference. WPF uses full .Net Framework and Silverlight uses different dlls (so you can't use all classes from .Net framework in SL).
Of course Silverlight is a presentation technology that you use to create browser base application (SL can be also an out of browser application) and WPF is used to create windows applications.
Silverlight's original code name was WPF/E with the E standing for "Everywhere". That should help understand the origin of it.
It was designed a a reduced and portable version of WPF, but now both seem to diverge a bit. Here is a good article on how they diverge: WPF Compatibility
I am building a WPF application using the PRISM guidance, I want to use the Entity Framework 4 for a data repository.
I have previously developed a Silverlight app, using Prism and WCF RIA Services which worked great as all my components are decoupled.
So what is the best way of getting data in my WPF application in a decoupled way.
Thanks for any advise
You might have a look at the BookLibrary sample application of the WPF Application Framework (WAF). It shows how to use the Entity Framework in a WPF MVVM application. However, it's not PRISM.
Are there any MVC frameworks available for WPF other than Caliburn (which looks awesome btw)?
Both Caliburn and PRISM are very nice. However if you go down the path of MVC you will miss out on the powerful 2 way binding. Consider MVVM, it's a very clean and practical approach for WPF. This is the pattern Microsoft used for their expression blend.
There is also Magellan, a port of ASP.NET MVC for WPF.
There is Composite WPF aka PRISM from Microsoft Pattern & Practices.
http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF
one additional possibility is pureMVC (www.puremvc.org)
it seems well-proven, has good short doc/UML, and the project is responsive, and has been ported to .NET - there exists an WPF demo, it will be published soon but you also can contact the project owner about it.
Regards,
Paul
A new MVC framework that works with practically and .net technology (WebForms, WinForms, WPF, Xamarin Forms) is SimpleMVC by Gateway Programming School. This link gives an overview and example usage.
A short example is to create a controller from SimpleControllerBase that has your business logic. This will depend on the SimpleModelBase implementations you provide. Implementations of ISimpleView are handled through WPF pages and controls. The derived controller only works with the interfaces that extend ISimpleView so that the WPF parts are abstracted away. You then use properties on the view to do two-way data-binding, just like MVVM, but with a proper layered architecture.
If we develop a winform app using an MVC architecture, it should not be too hard to change over to WPF at a later date, correct?
Well designed WPF application heavily leverage data-binding. As such, you might consider using classes such as ObservableCollection and others and implement IPropertyNotify when designing your model.
Look up some references to the M-V-VM pattern advocated by Microsoft product groups (e.g., Blend) for more information.
It seems that in Codeplex there is an MVC winform open souce fmwk for developping winforms app
That framework is koossery.MVCwin, located on Codeplex at http://koosserymvcwin.codeplex.com