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Building Enterprise
Applications with Windows
®
Presentation Foundation and
the Model View ViewModel
Pattern
Raffaele Garofalo
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Contents at a Glance
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Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Conventions and Features in This Book xv
Acknowledgments xviii
Errata and Book Support xix
Introduction to Model View ViewModel and Line of Business
Applications 1
The Model View ViewModel Pattern 1
Line of Business Applications 2
Choosing the Right Technology 3
Silverlight or WPF? 4
Microsoft’s UI-Building Tools 5
Composition of a LOB User Interface 9
The Menubar 11
The Toolbar 12
The Tooltip (and Its Abuse) 12
Notications and Alerts 13
The Ribbon Bar 15
General Style and Control Considerations 16
Separation of Concerns 17
Layers, Tiers, and Services 19
Summary 23
Design Patterns 25
An Overview of Design Patterns 25
Classifying Design Patterns 26
UI Design Patterns 29
The MVC Pattern 30
The MVP Pattern 34
The PM Pattern and MVVM 39
Advanced Design Patterns and Techniques 43
The Inversion of Control Pattern 44
DSLs: Writing Fluent Code 53
Introduction to TDD 57
Summary 60
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The Domain Model 61
Introduction to Domain-Driven Design 61
DDD Terminology 62
Analyzing the CRM Domain 63
Domain Entity and Data Transfer Object 64
The POCO Object and the O/RM 66
Development Approaches of a Domain 67
Transaction Script 68
Database-Driven Approach 69
Domain-Driven Approach 70
How To Create an Object In DDD 71
Factory Patterns 72
Domain Entities Validation 75
Classic Validation 75
Validation Using Attributes and Data Annotations 77
Available Validation Frameworks 79
Unit Test the Domain Model 80
Sample Code: The CRM Domain Model 81
The Person Context 81
The Order Domain 87
Summary 89
The Data Access Layer 91
Introduction 91
The Database and Stored Procedures 92
Choosing an O/RM 93
Microsoft Entity Framework 95
NHibernate 98
Other O/RMs for NET 100
The Unit of Work 101
Lifecycle of a UoW 102
Identify a Business Transaction 102
The Repository Pattern 104
Test-Driven Development: The Data Layer 106
Building a Distributed Data Layer with RIA and WCF 108
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Sample Code: The CRM Data Access Layer 112
A Flexible IUnitOfWork Interface 112
Mapping the Domain Model Using Entity Framework 113
Mapping the Domain Using NHibernate 117
Getting the Tools 118
The UnitOfWork and the ISession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Summary 121
The Business Layer 123
Introduction 123
A Business Rule Is Not a Validation Rule 124
Business Rules by Service 127
The Facade Pattern 128
Business Rules by Workow with WF 40 129
Different Ways of Running a Workow 130
Third-Party Toolkits 133
Technologies for the Data Validation 134
Rule Engine and Business Rule Engine 136
Business Layer Considerations 137
When Do I Need to Create a Business Layer? 137
Bad BLL Habits 138
Sample Code: The Business Service Layer 139
Data Validation with the Enterprise Library 50 139
A Generic Workow Engine 141
Service for Business Transactions 143
Summary 147
The UI Layer with MVVM 149
Introduction to the MVVM Pattern 150
The View 151
Blendability: A Dummy ViewModel 152
The Model 155
The Command in WPF and Silverlight 157
A Workaround: An MVVM Command 158
Re-evaluate ICommand Execution 160
The ViewModel 161
The INotifyPropertyChanged Interface 162
The IDataErrorInfo Interface
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[...]... behind everything The ViewModel contains the UI logic, the commands, the events, and a reference to the Model In MVVM, the ViewModel is not in charge of updating the data displayed in the UI—thanks to the powerful www.it-ebooks.info 1 2 Chapter 1 Introduction to Model View ViewModel and Line of Business Applications data-binding engine provided by WPF and Silverlight, the ViewModel doesn’t need to... code that you will be able to use and reuse in the future Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern provides not only a solid analysis of how the MVVM pattern works and how to apply it with WPF and Silverlight, but it also offers an exhaustive guide to building layered applications by using the most common and accepted techniques This book... Model View ViewModel and Line of Business Applications After completing this chapter, you will be able to: n Identify a Line of Business application n Decide which is the right technology for you to develop a Line of Business application The Model View ViewModel Pattern The Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern was introduced by John Gossman (Software Architect at Microsoft for Windows Presentation Foundation. .. “revolutionary.” In the past, I have used well-known patterns to build applications, including the Model View Presenter pattern with Windows Forms applications, and the Model View Controller pattern with ASP NET applications But with WPF, these two approaches are now obsolete, because they can’t take advantage of the powerful engine provided by XAML Of course, you can still take advantage of the binding engine... The first chapter, “Introduction to Model View ViewModel Applications, ” is a general introduction to LOB applications, their components, and their structure Chapter 2, “Design Patterns,” shows a complete overview of all the well-known design patterns and architectural patterns used to develop enterprise applications, and more generally, to develop loosely-coupled components Chapter 3, The Domain Model, ”... doesn’t need to do that This is because the View is an observer of the ViewModel, so as soon as the ViewModel changes, the UI updates itself For that to happen, the ViewModel must implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and fire the PropertyChanged event Initially, only WPF was powerful enough to satisfy the MVVM pattern s requirements In Silverlight 2, you had the option of implementing MVVM, but... and the ViewModel n The Model is the entity that represents the business concept; it can be anything from a simple customer entity to a complex stock trade entity n The View is the graphical control or set of controls responsible for rendering the Model data on screen A View can be a WPF window, a Silverlight page, or just an XAML data template control n The ViewModel is the magic behind everything The. .. only the image to indicate the function of a Toolbar button, so the clearer and more self-explanatory your images are, the more useful the Toolbar will be Because the Toolbar supports the same (or fewer) commands that are already available in the Menubar, using the MVVM approach, you might wish to use the same ViewModel for both controls or to provide a collection of commands for each ViewModel and. .. of triggers in WPF and Silverlight when you implement the MVVM pattern: they should not be heavily used because they can easily incorporate presentation logic that can’t be tested The logic is not available in the ViewModel but it is exposed in the View with the trigger Silverlight 4 ships with a rich set of controls, styles, and templates, one of which is a nice LOB ASP.NET Model View Contoller (MVC)... UIs and different UI technologies, reducing the coupling between the UI and other code, and allowing UI Designers to work in a more independent manner MVVM is a specialized interpretation of the PM pattern designed to satisfy the requirements of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight Structurally, an MVVM application consists primarily of three major components: the Model, the View, and . www.it-ebooks.info
Building Enterprise
Applications with Windows
®
Presentation Foundation and
the Model View ViewModel
Pattern
Raffaele Garofalo
www.it-ebooks.info
Published. well-known patterns to build applications, including the Model View Pre-
senter pattern with Windows Forms applications, and the Model View Controller pattern with
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