Chapter 33. Structuring and testing with the MVVM pattern

 

This chapter covers
  • Creating services for use with MVVM
  • Using commands and the CallMethodAction behavior
  • Testing using the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework

 

When the community stops worrying about how to do basic things in a particular technology and starts working out how to do complex things well, you know the technology has reached a point of maturity. The emergence of architectural patterns and testing capabilities for a platform are a good indicator that the technology is ready for real-world use in nontrivial applications. Silverlight hit that point some time between Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4.

One of the main patterns to be applied to Silverlight is the Model-View-View-Model ...

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