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

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.

Answer 2

I found http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos_wpf.aspx as a good start

Answer 3

A good book on MVVM with WPF

Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel

Answer 4

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