Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed
- Length: 172 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Apress
- Publication Date: 2012-12-19
- ISBN-10: 1430249080
- ISBN-13: 9781430249085
- Sales Rank: #3480722 (See Top 100 Books)
The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern is held in high regard by many developers as an excellent way of creating sophisticated modern applications. It’s clear seperation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These strengths have found it favor with WPF and Silverlight developers. It is now increasingly being employed for Windows 8 apps, a purpose to which it is ideally suited as this book will show.
In this brief, information-rich, guide we will show you how MVVM works with both XAML (C#) and HTML5 (JavaScript) flavors of Windows 8. Beginning with a brief recap of MVVM concepts under .NET – to provide a common frame of reference – we will then delve into the details of how MVVM can best be implemented in Metro-style apps for Windows 8 and show a working application framework in each case.
What you’ll learn
- How the MVVM pattern can bring elegance, power, speed and reusability to your Windows 8 apps.
- That MVVM implementations under Windows 8 differ from MVVM implementations under .NET.
- Produce fully working Metro-style applications using XAML and HTML5
- How you can use the popular KnockoutJS Framework to speed the development of your HTML5 Metro apps.
- Essential tips, tricks and cautions that will allow you to bring your existing .NET skills to bear quickly in the Windows 8 world.
Who this book is for
This is a fast-paced guide for developers comfortable with both .NET programming and the fundamentals of Windows 8 development.
Table of Contents
- Setting up Windows 8 Application Project
- Implementing the View
- Implementing the Model
- Implementing the ViewModel
- HTML5, JavaScript, and Windows 8 Applications
- View, Model and ViewModel Structures in HTML5 and JavaScript
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