[dba-VS] Part I: Cross-posted from dba-OT: MVVM explained - looking for English language heavy review/revision, and technical review

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Gustav --

Thank you for your comment.

The "light SL/WPF aplication framework" is done. I have tested it a few time using both SL and WPF technologies - with VS2012, Silverlight 5 and WPF the XAML/C# code solutions look very similar: a few differences are solved mainly by generic code. I have happened to borrow and to adapt this generic code from the open sources, I have had to filter through a lot during a few last days...

I'm now starting to apply this "light application framework" to the customer main application code base Im developing here from scratch so there will be no need to "fight" with legacy "spaghetti code"... 

Thank you.

-- Shamil

>Monday, September  7, 2015 8:50 AM UTC from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>Thanks for the details. I didn't mean to imply that you were reinventing anything, just wondering why it was needed to create a framework. If it is to modularize the project, I get the idea. 
>
>It really sounds like an outstanding project. Silverlight is great as is and, of course, the client has the final word.
>
>/gustav
>
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>Fra: dba-VS [mailto:dba-vs-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil
>Sendt: 7. september 2015 10:14
>Til: Development in Visual Studio < dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com >
>Emne: Re: [dba-VS] Part I: Cross-posted from dba-OT: MVVM explained - looking for English language heavy review/revision, and technical review
>
> Hi Gustav --
>
>Thank you for your comment.
>
>"Light" means really light here - a couple of days, with clear goals, all but one are already achieved/solved, last one - I have  found its solution in a sample project and I'm now adapting it to my "light" framework. Most of actual work hasn't been spent on this "light" framework but on other tasks in this project...
>
>I'm using ICommand, INotifyPropertyChaged interfaces and nested properties binding in WPF and SilverLight, the latter is actually the target deployment technology requested by the customer - they don't mind it "has been left in the dark by Microsoft". Well, I'm trying to explain the customer this issue but they wanted the first version in SilverLight...
>
>This "light" framework - actually is a small set of generic classes + nested application logic classes - they allow to keep WPF/SilverLight XAML forms/pages/controls' code behind 100% clean of any not even business but also UI navigation, updates etc, logic/code. And I'm not "inventing the wheel" (AFAIS from the Net quite a few devs do similar things but I haven't seen any info with all the technical details posted - so I have to make these details "reinvented" here by myself) - the "magic" comes from WPF/SIlverlight native binding features. This "code behind cleanness" + nested "architecture" of custom business logic classes allows to modularize the whole development code base - the goal is to work on such projects in a team not alone...
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>Once again, I'm not inventing anything here, I'd even suppose there could be somewhere already done something like that but it's not easy to filter out so much information to find this solution when working on an urgent project..
>
>>>> Even "light", isn't that a major task?
>I do realize your concerns, Gustav.
>
>I hope I will have free time in a couple of weeks to share my findings here.
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- Shamil
>
>>Monday, September  7, 2015 6:35 AM UTC from Gustav Brock < gustav at cactus.dk >:
>>
>>Hi Shamil
>>
>>Your explanation of MVVM (which I haven't worked with) supplemented with your links makes sense but - as I haven't studied MVVM - I can't tell how it differs from how others may have explained the setup.
>>
>>But the setup doesn't seem complete as - if I understand your writing - you have had to create your own "light MVVM based application framework". Even "light", isn't that a major task?
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>>Also, I would be reluctant to spend that much work on a framework requiring Silverlight which - to my knowledge - has been left in the dark by Microsoft.
>>
>>But due to my lack of experience in this area, I may very well be missing something.
>>Anyway, I really appreciate your sharing of your experiences.
>>
>>/gustav
>
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