Learning WPF and MVVM - best approach for learning from scratch [closed]

Answer 1

Try this site. It collects the various resources at one place. http://learnandmasterwpf.blogspot.com/

Answer 2

I just read this book. It is not really about learning WPF, but it should be useful once you already know a bit of WPF and want to progress your understanding of MVVM.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-WPF-Silverlight-MVVM-Model-View-ViewModel/dp/1430231629

Answer 3

Here is a tutorial for MVVM http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/819294/Learn-WPF-MVVM-step-by-step-Basics-to-Advance-Leve which goes from basic to the advance level in 5 steps. So its like graduating from a 3 layer to full MVVM.

Answer 4

Jason Dolinger has an excellent video on the subject. It steps you through the process moving from using code behind files to a full MVVM pattern including Dependency Injection and Testing.

Bill Steele did a 16 part "Soup-to-Nuts" webcast series on WPF. The links on the msevents site are broken. Here is a Google search to find them. This will help with the WPF learning curve. And he does NOT use any MV* patterns in his examples.

EDIT: The MSEvents links are working now, I am leaving the Google search as a backup.

Josh Smith also has an excellent article WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern on MSDN.

Herding Code: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block

• Part 1
• Part 2

MIX10:

• Laurent Bugnion Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
• Rob Eisenberg Build Your Own MVVM Framework

And of course Reed Copsey's MVVM articles are worth a read as well.

Answer 5

There aren't many books covering MVVM but there is one : Advanced MVVM

But there are lots of online resources and this one is a must read : WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

After that I suggest looking into frameworks like

• MVVM Light Toolkit
• Caliburn

Answer 6

To do big things (like learning WPF + MVVM) it is better to break the task in smaller steps.

I think that the best approach in this situation is to start by learning the UI part of Wpf. Learn XAML syntax, the layout system, the available controls and forget about binding and how to deliver data to the controls.

Once you know the UI basics of Wpf then it is time to move to MVVM. Learn how bindings work and the MVVM pattern.

In this Web you can find a tutorial focusing on the hands on but with the theory available:

http://www.learnmvvm.com