DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern

• 2007.10.22 MVC or MVP Pattern – Whats the difference? by Todd Snyder
• 2007.08.27 Presentation Model and Organizing Presentation Logic – related articles from Martin Fowler’s Development of Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture series.
• Dan Crevier [MSFT] has an excellent series about DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern.
• John Gossman [MSFT] has vast amount of articles about the subject, but, unfortunately, no list of those made by himself. That’s why we have to use a blog search feature.

Code Snippets and Tricks

Articles from various sources:

• 2007.10.09 IDesign has plenty of nice articles and WCF snippets, as well as C# and WCF coding guidelines.
• 2007.10.08 Use SimpleStyles to Easily Style System Controls from Expression Blend and Design blog.
• 2007.10.07 Maximizing WPF 3D Performance on Tier-2 Hardware from WPF SDK blog
• 2007.10.07 WPF: Expression Blend 2 and external resources (VS2008 version) by Laurent Bugnion
• 2007.10.07 Serializing Data Objects to XAML (and then dealing with ObservableCollection) by Robby Ingebretsen, and related Limited generics support in Xaml by Mike Hillberg
• 2007.10.07 RenderOptions.SetBitmapScalingMode by Robby Ingebretsen
• 2007.10.07 Mapping a Custom Property to x:Name by Robby Ingebretsen
• Brief anatomy of a ListBox
• XmlnsDefinitionAtrribute Is Pretty Nifty- a nice way of using namespaces in XAML
• ScrollViewer for Lefties shows how to re-style ScrollViewers so that ScrollBar ends up on the left.
• A set of resource-related articles by Ashish Shetty [MSFT]: Resources in WPF applications, How to: Reference a file embedded within a DLL in WPF, and More on resource loading in WPF (including pack://…).
• Create thumbnail of UIElement
• RefExtension – How to load XAML on-demand from Tom’s miniBlog – an interesting example of MarkupExtension usage for dynamic XAML loading.
• Dynamicly changing the staticresource to use on a control from the MSDN forum.
• Asynchronous Databinding – nice article by REZN8′s Andrew Whiddett published on Karsten’s blog

Articles from The Code Project (see all WPF articles):

• Piping Value Converters in WPF
• Validation in Windows Presentation Foundation
• FishEyePanel/FanPanel – Examples of custom layout panels in WPF
• Creating a look-less custom control in WPF
• An Error Provider for Windows Presentation Foundation
• WPF Features by Example

WCF Tips

David Pallmann has a series of WCF Tips in form of design patterns:

1. Service Interface Design
2. Service Class Design
3. Service Hosting
4. Configuration
5. Infrastructure
6. Instrumentation
7. Clients