Chapter 6. WinRT and MVVM
In structuring software, one of the primary guiding rules is the separation of concerns. A large application is best developed, debugged, and maintained by being separated into specialized layers. In highly interactive graphical environments, one obvious separation is between presentation and content. The presentation layer is the part of the program that displays controls (and other graphics) and interacts with the user. Underlying this presentation layer is business logic and data providers.
To help programmers conceptualize and implement separations of concerns, architectural patterns are developed. In XAML-based programming environments, one pattern that has become extremely popular is Model-View-ViewModel, or MVVM. ...
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