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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

You're reading from   MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF If you're using Silverlight and WPF, then employing the MVVM pattern can make a powerful difference to your projects, reducing code and bugs in one. This book is an invaluable resource for serious developers.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683425
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Presentation Patterns 2. Introduction to MVVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Northwind – Foundations 4. Northwind—Services and Persistence Ignorance 5. Northwind—Commands and User Inputs 6. Northwind—Hierarchical View Model and IoC 7. Dialogs and MVVM 8. Workflow-based MVVM Applications 9. Validation 10. Using Non-MVVM Third-party Controls 11. MVVM Application Performance MVVM Frameworks
Binding at a Glance Index

Chapter 10. Using Non-MVVM Third-party Controls

By Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi

The development community has been slow in adopting MVVM and as a result there are many third-party libraries and controls on the market that don't follow the pattern. One of the most common challenges faced when adopting MVVM is how to use non-MVVM libraries and controls in MVVM architecture. The good news is that we will review several techniques which will allow you to minimize the impact of the non-MVVM code in your design and maximize the testability of your codebase.

As an example, we are going to use the WPF WebBrowser control. This is complex enough example to explain all the different available techniques and yet simple enough to be covered in a single chapter. The WebBrowser control is just a WPF wrapper around same old WebBrowser ActiveX control from the Win32/MFC days. Like many Silverlight and WPF controls on the market, the WebBroswer control wasn't built using the MVVM approach and instead has forms...

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