Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern

Last year I worked with Patterns and Practices to develop a number of pieces of guidance concerning Windows Phone development. One of the items was Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern.

This guidance shows you the basics of MVVM and dependency injection through a sample application, PetrolTracker, that enables you to track the petrol consumption of three vehicles. The sample application is authored two different ways so that you can see the progression from a code-behind implementation, to a view model implementation whose dependencies are injected. Some of the topics that you will learn about include the following:

• Application Launching Events
• Saving and Restoring Page State
• The Motivation for MVVM
• The MVVM Pattern
• The Benefits of MVVM
• Connecting View Models to Views
• Dependency Injection
• Invoking Commands from a View
• Invoking Navigation from a View
• Displaying User Interface Notifications
• Abstracting the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK
• Unit Testing MVVM Applications

For more information, see Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern.