MVVM: Tutorial from start to finish?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

A very basic tutorial here

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/yougerthen/474/

Answer 3

I really liked these articles:

1. MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me
2. How Tards Like Me Make MVVM Apps

He really dumbs down the concept in a humorous way. Worth reading.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Your question really seems to be asking 2 questions:

1. Where are some good tutorials on WPF, assuming I have no previous WPF experience?
2. 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)

Answer 6

This one will do:

RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example