MVVM Live Chat on June 23rd

Posted on June 23, 2011 by john

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Want to chat about MVVM with me live? You can tune into a 1 hour live webcast this Thursday morning as I'll be talking about the MVVM pattern, why it exists, when it works well, and what parts you may want to use or not use. I'll also discuss common and important scenarios including messaging, testing with design timed data, and how to apply these principals to both Silverlight desktop and Windows Phone 7 applications.

I’ll be covering these topics, but also leaving time for questions. It all starts at 8am PT on June 23rd.

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Special thanks to Pluralsight for hosting this live webcast.

Tags: Silverlight, windows phone, mvvm

8 Comments

  • Perry said

    Has the source code for your webcast been posted anywhere? I found the recorded video on pluralsight, but not any code.
    Thanks for doing the webcast, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • Claudio said

    Hi John,

    Hope this email finds you all well.

    Your Pluralsight web cast was fantastic. Things are starting to make more sense now after watching it since you took the time to explain things in more details. Thanks.

    I donwloaded the video to watch again but the source code was not in the .zip file. I would like to watch the video again follwing with the source code.

    Could you please let me know where I can find the source code?

    Also, I cannot wait for your video series for Pluralsight and I have a couple of requests:

    1 - Could you please use a WCF Data Service and a Database for the demo code?

    All the videos and demos I have seen use either WCF Ria Services or POCOS. However, WCF Data Services is becoming really popular now.

    2 - Could you please explain things in details and not assume that everyone already knows a lot i.e. things like when to use a singleton and why...ec...

    3 - It would be very userful if you could give us examples of how to work with many to many and one to many updates/deletes/create and select. This would make the series more real world scenario as opposed to one more simple demo

    I look forward to your reply.

    Cheers

    Claudio

  • Claudio said

    Hi John,
    Hope this post finds you all well.
    I have made some suggestions to Pluralsight about your upcoming MVVM training and am pasting my suggestion below:

    "
    I just would like to stress the importance of you trying to go one level up from the other training providers and include REAL WORLD examples in the videos.

    Please do not use only a single table or POCO classes on the client.

    You could use the Northwind database and some of the tables in it that expresse many to many and one to many relations.

    I hope you understand my point of making your MVVM training real world and not just another training out there.

    Summary of what I think should be included:

    - DATABASE using many tables (many to many, one to many, etc..)

    - CRUD Operations (many to many, one to many)

    - WCF Data Services to fetch data (it is becoming very popular now)

    - using generated proxy to fetch and update data in tables that use many to many and one to many relationships

    - view model locator

    Cheers

    Claudio

  • Allen Bellot said

    John,
    This might not be the right forum to ask this, but....
    I have stumbled across the Silverlight Firestarter Labs and was ready to jump in on Lab 10 and get started with the MVVM example. I'm having trouble getting the Starter Solution to run and show data in the Customer dropdown box. Please point to the right place to get going here.
    I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask this sort of thing.

    Thanks
    Allen

  • austin avrashow said

    Advice: for your upcoming Pluralsight series, don't bother explaining WP7.0 limitations (no commanding, SL3) because Mango will be baseline soon after videos are published.

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