MVVM Light Toolkit Fundamentals

By Laurent Bugnion
This is a reference course about MVVM Light, the popular toolkit to build client applications in XAML.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
May 9, 2014
Duration
4h 28m
Table of contents
Introduction to the MVVM
Introduction 1m Showing the Data Service Output 1m Building the Model 2m Building the Client Data Service 4m Creating the UI of the MainPage 1m Navigation and DetailsPage 3m Saving the Data Object, Testing 1m Summarizing the Issues of Non-MVVM 4m Theory: Understanding the MVVM Pattern (1) 2m Theory: Understanding the MVVM Pattern (2) 2m Theory: Understanding the MVVM Pattern (3) 3m
Refactoring the App to MVVM
Introduction 2m Refactor the Model Object 1m MainViewModel Part 1: Properties 3m MainViewModel Part 2: Commands and Services 9m Pairing the View and ViewModel, XAML 7m Adding ShowDetailsCommand and Testing the App 5m Adding Design Time Data and Designing in Blend 6m Unit Testing the Application 4m Summary 1m
The Core Components
Introduction: What is MVVM Light and What is it Not? 2m The ObservableObject and the ViewModelBase 4m The ObservableObject and the ViewModelBase (Demos) 4m Introduction to ICommand and RelayCommand 2m Demonstrating the Commands 4m RelayCommand Demo 2m RelayCommand Slides 3m The Messenger, Receiving and Sending Messages 5m Messenger Advanced Options 4m Messenger Demos 5m Dispatching to the UI Thread With the DispatcherHelper 4m DispatcherHelper Sensor Demo (Windows Phone) 4m DispatcherHelper WebRequest Samples (WPF and SL) 3m Summary 1m
The Extras
Introduction 1m Setting the DataContext 5m Binding to a ViewModel (Demos) 7m Why an Extras Assembly? 1m Introducing Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control 3m Registering Classes with SimpleIoc 4m Creating and Getting Instances from SimpleIoc 3m Unregistering Classes from SimpleIoc 2m A Typical Scenario with SimpleIoc 1m SimpleIoc's Utility Methods and Properties 2m The ServiceLocation Assembly and SimpleIoc 2m SimpleIoc Demos 3m Introduction to Behaviors 4m Introduction to EventToCommand 3m EventToCommand Demo 1: Handling MouseEnter Event 1m EventToCommand Demo 2: Moving a Template to a ResourceDictionary 5m EventToCommand Demo 3: DataTrigger and EventToCommand 3m EventToCommand Demo 4: EventArgsConverter 3m EventToCommand vs. InvokeCommandAction 1m Summary 2m
Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit and Additional Components
Introduction 2m Using the Assemblies From Nuget 3m A Quick Nuget Demo 2m Libraries Only vs. Full 2m Adding MVVM Light to an App With Nuget (Demo) 3m Installing the Whole Package in Visual Studio 4m Introducing the Code Snippets 2m The "INPC" Code Snippets Demo 5m The "RELAY" Code Snippets Demo 4m 'The "PROPDP" and "PROPA" Snippets Demo 3m Introduction and Demo of the Standard Project Template 4m The Windows 8.1 Project Template 6m New View, New ViewModel and MVVMLOCATORPROPERTY Snippet 2m Summary 2m
Advanced Examples With MVVM Light
Introduction; Plug-Ins: Introducing the Interfaces 4m Plug-Ins: Preparing the View 4m Plug-Ins: Databinding and Commanding 6m Plug-Ins: Sending a Message to the Plug-Ins 5m Plug-Ins: Using a Dataservice Inside the Plug-In 3m Plug-Ins: Building a Second Plug-In 3m Expandable List: Preparing the Infrastructure 5m Expandable List: Creating the UI and Testing 5m Unit Test: Testing the SelectableViewModel's Expansion 3m Unit Test: Testing the SelectableViewModel's Collapsing 3m Unit Test: Creating and Using Test Services 5m Unit Test: Testing the Navigation and the PropertyChanged 3m Summary and Conclusion 5m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
May 9, 2014
Duration
4h 28m
Description

MVVM Light is extremely popular to build client applications in XAML. It supports Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows 8 (RT), and Windows Phone. This toolkit consists of helper components, project and item templates, code snippets, and recommendations on building a decoupled architecture for your application. MVVM Light works great in Blend and the Visual Studio designer to enable designer-developer workflow to improve the application's user experience. MVVM Light also makes it easier to decouple the application's components and to maintain it. This course introduces each component with in-depth explanations and samples. It also shows examples inspired from real-life applications where MVVM Light is used successfully.

About the author
Laurent Bugnion
About the author

Laurent works as Senior Director for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies (and Gold Partner) for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Pixelsense, Windows 8, Windows Phone, XBOX and generally User Experience. He is based in Zurich Switzerland.

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