Comments on: More than Just MVC for WPF

By: Dave Jellison

Dave Jellison — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:50:52 +0000

Marlon,

Love the example.

If you really want people who are new to patterns, MVC, WPF or any/all to fully grasp the concept and power I would suggest placing each controller in it’s own assembly. Demonstrate that Marlon.ControllerA.dll does not reference Marlon.ControllerB.dll or vice-versa. If you have the time and inclination you could also change object args to string args, serializing and deserialing XML across machine boundaries. Of course, it takes me a lot less time to make that suggestion than for it to bear fruit lol. This is, of course, the true inherent power in a truly decoupled tier and/or controller. In your case the +M could reside anywhere (as you already know), with the caveat you couldn’t pass args as an object (reference) obviously.

Thanks again, adding your blog to my subscriptions. Wish I had time to add as useful posts to my blog lol…

By: marlon grech

marlon grech — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:23:57 +0000

Create a class that encapsulates all the parameters and pass an instance of that class… Just as if you would do with EventArgs

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:32:14 +0000

Hi marlon,
This was a very good article for WPF beginners like me, i was wondering how to pass multiple command parameters through button using your pattern. Appreciate if you could help me in this

By: Michael Sync

Michael Sync — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:27:50 +0000

Seems to me that Mediator patter is so much like Event Aggregator that we are using in CAB/SCSF/Prism.

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:12:04 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the examples, they seem like a great way to handle MVC with WPF (two things I’m trying to grasp and learn simultaneously). A couple problems I’m running into now though that I’m wondering if you (or anybody reading) has a solution to are:

1) I’ve got a login page with a button to submit it. I’m using a command like your example but how should I be handling passing multiple values through a command? I see I can use a multibinding which would ultimately mean having to write a converter it appears and rather drastically over complicates the whole procedure.

2) How would you deal with regular events when you want to perform an action (such as say running some code when the user types in a textbox). Would you go the codebehind event handler and then just call a method in the controller?

Thanks!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:11:11 +0000

Do you happen have any examples of the unit tests that would come with this example? I am not sure how I would test the “fire” of a Command from the view which is registered with a .net object.

Also, what mock object are you guys using, I am familiar with NMock but now they switched to NMock2 I am not sure if it wouldn’t better to use one of the other ones out there, like RhinoMocks or Moq, or anything else I am unaware of.

Thanks