Using RoutedCommands with a ViewModel in WPF

Well, Josh Smith is always producing good stuff: his Using RoutedCommands with a ViewModel in WPF at CodeProject is really cool!

Today’s Sites/Blogs

• On Measuring Performance by Sasha Goldshtein
• Why WPF Rocks (Custom Layout Panel Showcase) by Rudi Grobler – nice collection of panels. Rudi’s blog has a lot of interesting information about WPF
• Pete W’s Idea Book by Pete Weissbrod – interesting materials about WPF, data binding (inlcuding NHibernate), MVC/MVVM, etc.
• Agile-Friendly Test Automation Tools/Frameworks on Elisabeth Hendrickson’s Ruminations blog
• How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary by Robert L. Read. Absolutely must reading for any software developer (especially beginner).
• Execution in Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge – despite the problem’s seriousness, the reading is fun!
• Computer Zen blog by Scott Hanselman (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft) – vast amount of info about LINQ, WPF, .NET, programming, tools, tricks, you-name-it.

Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications

Josh Smith‘s article Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications on CodeProject.

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.