Podcast: Advanced MVVM with Josh Smith

Author, Microsoft MVP and accomplished pianist Josh Smith, Sr. UX Developer at IdentityMine, joins the show to discuss some of Model View ViewModel’s more advanced scenarios.

Josh shares is experience using MVVM gives some real-world advice on:

• Using modal dialogs
• Evils and virtues of code behind in views
• Use of attached behaviors
• Undo/redo strategies
• Working with animations
• Building a task based architecture for managing communication between View and ViewModel
• Frameworks in the MVVM space

The Book

Get first-hand experience implementing the solutions to the challenges discussed in the show by reading Josh’s new book ‘Advanced MVVM’.

Resources

The following resources are mentioned in the show:

• Laurent Bugnion's mix talk ‘Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• Josh Smith’s MVVM Foundation
• Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light framework
• Rob Eisenberg's Caliburn