MVVM Tutorial from start to finish

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I m a C  Windows Forms programmer with more than 5 years experience  I ve been investigating WPF using the MVVM  Model-View-ViewModel  design pattern  I have searched the Internet for tutorials  I have even watched the entirety of Jason Dolinger s awesome video  Although I have found many  I have not found one that takes me from start to finish  What I really want is a tutorial that doesn t assume any previous WPF knowledge   What are your favorite WPF-MVVM tutorials that helped you to learn

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Reed Copsey published a nice tutorial that writes a trivial RSS app in WinForms  then makes a straight port to WPF  and finally converts to MVVM  It makes a nice introduction to MVVM before you try and tackle a full description like Josh Smith s article  I m glad that I read Reed s tutorial before Josh s article  because it gives me a little context to understand the details that Josh is digging into

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I read Josh Smith s article and found it very difficult  Once understood  I wrote a very simple one that should get you really started on it  Get it here

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A good book on MVVM with WPF  Building Enterprise Applications with Windows   Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel

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A very basic tutorial here  http   www c-sharpcorner com UploadFile yougerthen 474

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I was in exactly the same situation recently  mate  and I can tell you what I did   Josh Smith  WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern  read again  again and again  -  download the code  examine  compile and keep it around  MVVM foundation    Examine the framework  use it in your app  Look at the Demo application in that framework    No real start-to-finish tutorials  sorry

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Here is a very good tutorial for MVVM beginners  http   geekswithblogs net mbcrump archive 2010 06 27 getting-started-with-mvvm-general-infolinks aspx   Getting started with MVVM  General Info Links

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If you are coming from winforms and  you are looking for a tutorial  I recommend you the MVVM Trainning extension for visual studio  http   visualstudiogallery msdn microsoft com 3ab5f02f-0c54-453c-b437-8e8d57eb9942 It  s a tutorial with code examples   The tutorial is divided in 3  Basic WPF app  the same app in MVVM and the same using Inversion of control  Quite useful in your case     I also like these ones http   msdn microsoft com en-us magazine dd419663 aspx http   karlshifflett wordpress com mvvm   and this one is with Prism  http   www developmentalmadness com archive 2009 10 03 mvvm-with-prism-101-ndash-part-1-the-bootstrapper aspx It may be worth it to take a view to Prism if you are thinking to program WPF apps with MVVM

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My blog has a complete series of tutorial starting from scratch for WPF MVVM and WPF Prism  Have a look here  http   blog raffaeu com archive 2009 06 03 wpf-and-vmmv-tutorial-01-introduction aspx

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A while ago I was in a similar situation  allthough I had a little WPF knowledge already   so I started a community wiki  There are a lot of great ressources there   What applications could I study to understand  Data Model-View-ViewModel

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Take a look at Jason Dollinger s MVVM video at Lab49   We have used this in the past to train our team on MVVM

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There s a very good Techdays 2010 video introduction to the MVVM pattern  clearly explained    TechDays 2010  Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel pattern

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I found http   windowsclient net learn videos wpf aspx as a good start

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This isn t a tutorial  but it s the diagram on this page that helped me get my head around mvvm

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Some blogs websites to check out    Josh Smith Dr  WPF Bea Stollnitz    Currently  Josh Smith has a  From Russia With Love  article that can be of some use to you

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This one will do   RIATasks  A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example

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I really liked these articles    MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me How Tards Like Me Make MVVM Apps   He really dumbs down the concept in a humorous way  Worth reading

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some nice video tutorials here http   live visitmix com Archive  http   ecn channel9 msdn com o9 mix 10 wmv-hq EX14 wmv  http   ecn channel9 msdn com o9 mix 10 wmv-hq EX15 wmv

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Don t skip John Papa s presentation from PDC Conference 2010  See it here

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Your question really seems to be asking 2 questions    Where are some good tutorials on WPF  assuming I have no previous WPF experience  Where are some good tutorials on learning MVVM    Some of these resources may be duplicated in previous answers     Tutorials on WPF   A Guided Tour of WPF by Josh Smith     I wrote a series of introductory WPF articles on The Code Project   The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that  s he can fully understand how the series    demo application works   Bea Stollnitz  link is to her archives  has a number of great articles on WPF  WPF  A Beginner s Guide - Part 1 of n by Sacha Barber WindowsClient net WPF Training Videos   MVVM Tutorials   WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern by Josh Smith  duplicate link already provided by Yacoder  Jason Dolinger s presentation on the Model-View-ViewModel  link to video embedded in article  Dan Crevier s DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern series  similar to MVVM    Composite WPF  Prism  Resources Though not exactly what you asked  it is the natural progression with WPF and MVVM    Codeplex  Composite WPF  Prism  Silver Bay Labs has a number of great videos on learning Prism Channel 9  10 step-by-step videos on using Silverlight and Prism Codeplex  Introduction to Composite WPF  CAL  Prism   Part 1  of n

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You would love to read these  -  http   www wintellect com CS blogs jlikness archive 2010 04 14 model-view-viewmodel-mvvm-explained aspx

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For something released a little more recently  last month   take a look at Rainer Stropek s video series MVVM in WPF and Silverlight  He flies right through it  but does an extremely good job of going from start to finish with an actual application

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I have written an application using WPF  Prism and MVVM to simulate hiring a cab   you can read about it on my blog  download the source here and play with it

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