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Learn WPF MVVM - XAML, C# and the MVVM pattern: Be ready for coding away next week using WPF and MVVM by [Arnaud Weil]

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You're a developer who knows nothing to WPF. Which is fine, except that you need to start coding your next application using WPF and the MVVM pattern.

Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 15 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in WPF, and will spend time only where appropriate.

Plus this book is packed with exercises which build up into a full project: you develop a small e-commerce sample application. You’ll allow users to browse for products, and you’ll also create a back-end where users will be able to list and edit products.

Read this book, and you can code your WPF application within a week. Or your money back.

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December 7, 2016
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What this book is not

I made my best to keep this book small, so that you can learn WPF quickly without getting lost in petty details. If you're looking for a reference book where you'll find answers to all the questions you may have within the next 4 years of your WPF practice, you'll find other heavy books for that.

My purpose is to swiftly provide you with the tools you need to code your first WPF application using the MVVM pattern and be able to look for more by yourself when needed. While some authors seems to pride themselves in having the thickest book, in this series I'm glad I achieved the thinnest possible book for my purpose. Though I tried my best to keep all of what seems necessary, based on my 14 years experience of teaching.

Prerequisites

In order for this book to meet its goals, you must :

Have basic experience creating an application with C# (any type of application is alright).
Have working knowledge of Visual Studio.
Have basic knowledge of XML syntax.
Have basic knowledge of SQL Server.

How to read this book

This book's aim is to make you productive as quickly as possible. For this we'll use some theory, several demonstrations, plus exercises.

Tools you need

The only tool you'll need to work through that book is Visual Studio 2015. You can get any of those editions:

Visual Studio 2015 Community (free)
Visual Studio 2015 Professional

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M365NCZ
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2598 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
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Arnaud Weil

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Arnaud Weil is a born developper: when he was a kid he was controlling his electric train using an Atari ST and some self-made electronics, then as a teenager created and distributed worldwide one of the first Web browsers for some of the first pocket computers, when the Web was just beginning. In fact, he loves coding.

Turning a passion into a career, Arnaud has been coding all kinds of applications from factory tools to smarphone applications to house control solutions. His status as a freelancer allows him to help his clients with many different projects.

But what Arnaud enjoys most is helping other developers: that's why he teaches, speaks, and writes books.

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David B.

Ok book that loses its message halfway through.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018

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The book is fairly well written, and starts off well. But, like all coding books that use the "we will be building a project from scratch, and adding on to it each chapter", it veers off the path. All of a sudden, there are .cs files to copy in to the project, to advance the project along. I achieved solutions in far different methods than the author (stackpanel vs grid). In fact, at one point after going over all of the layout methods, and saying they should be used, one solution used a fixed position layout (with the hardly mentioned DataGrid), which I thought was contradictory to the advice in earlier chapters. MVVM does not make an appearance until 75% of the way through the book.

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John Wolnisty

Quick, easy kick-starter for WPF

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2017

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I have been developing WinForms apps for many years, but find myself needing to make the jump to WPF. This book will give you the basics to make that leap. Use a follow up reference book, such as C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework , and you'll be up any running in no time. I spent one solid day with this book and felt "Google-ready" to dive into my latest project. Given the book's size and purpose, I felt it achieved that and was worth the price. Couple of typos here and there, and a couple of places tell you to run the demo app but nothing happens because you really needed to read another paragraph then hit run, but it will be obvious.

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A. Berry

Good introduction, but a bit too bare-bones

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2018

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This is a very lean book that gives you just enough information to get a handle on using WPF without any extraneous fluff. I'm an experienced embedded C developer, but being new to C# and WPF I've been frustrated by a lack of concise but *complete* introductions to using WPF effectively.

This book has definitely given me a better handle on the subject, but it's a bit *too* lean, especially when it comes to the MVVM design pattern, which first appears on page 132 out of 160. This book would have been much more useful if it were twice as long, with some more time spent on the pros and cons of different WPF techniques for different use cases and a bit more explanation of some of the concepts. The MVVM section also could stand to be expanded. As it is, it gives a minimal look at setting up a View and connecting it to a ViewModel, but doesn't give any guidance on organizing the ViewModel-Model relationship or how to handle the presentation of more complex models.

Ultimately, I think the $10 price for the ebook is quite fair, and it is quite useful as a basic introduction to WPF, but there are other, heftier books on WPF that are probably more useful in the long run. To be fair, the author basically says as much in the description of the book, but the fact that MVVM, which is half of the title, only gets about 1/8th of the book is pretty disappointing.

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art777

I really liked this book

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

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I really liked this book. Having some experience with XML an C# I was not sure of many XAML rules. I have read the book in 3 days and will read it again, to make sure everything transferred from the book to the brain. The author explains the essential and most useful XAML tools and explains well. I have also really liked the author mentioning methods. But my first attempt with methods failed, and I could not figure out why. I have posted the problem on StackOverflow but got no reply. I emailed the author, his reply was quick and to the point, Now my method works and I intend to stick with methods rather than with events or commands.
I will definitely by a new book from the author if one appears in the same format. I really hate those 700-1200 page computer books.

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Peter P

Very well explained introduction to C#, WPF and MVVM

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017

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This was a very useful book for me - I am a Project Manager and I need to do some coding from time to time. I needed to quickly grasp C#, WPF and MVVM (I have background in other programming languages including VB.NET). This book was exactly what I was looking for - very nice and well explained introduction to these topics.
If you are an elite programmer then this will not be your cup of tea but for my case it was ideal.
The only suggestions I would have is for the author to ask someone to proof read the text to correct the occasional English mistakes. Also I would actually liked to have a little more details on some topic -- but of course it's a judgement call on the author's side, how brief or lengthy he wants his books to be.
All in all, solid 5 stars.

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Joel Satterfield

Swiftly Learning WPF, XAML, and MVVM

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

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There was absolutely nothing that I did not like about this book. Examples are excellent. The book ensures that the reader puts into use his/her understanding of application development principles and standards when working through each example problem initially--a nice pedagogy touch. If by chance the author stumps the reader, the author provides a step-by-step solution to each example problem. The book is a very good and fast read. Kudos to Arnaud, and thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience via "Learn WPF MVVM."

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This is neither a WPF nor a MVVM book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2020

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I bought this book as an introduction to the WPF MVVM pattern. The book starts by saying this is not an introduction to WPF and it is assumed the reader knows about WPF. Great, I thought, we're going to get stuck into MVVM and it's application to WPF solutions. Wrong!
The book is thin, at just 162 pages. Sadly, 129 of those pages take you through WPF as if you knew pretty much nothing about WPF. Just 33 pages are spent on MVVM.
Despite the long discussion of WPF, if you want to learn WPF this is definitely not the book to choose.
And if, as I did, you want to learn MVVM, this does little more than give you the most basic of examples. And then the book ends. Overall, a bit disappointing.

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PaulM1212

This book is probably a good introduction to xaml and maybe even C# in general

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2018

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This book is probably a good introduction to xaml and maybe even C# in general, however this book is billed as Learn WPF MVVM. The MVVM section is why I purchased this, on the internet there seems to be a variety of implementations of MVVM so I was hoping this book would provide good information. However the MVVM implementation was not really fully explained. Even the example code in the website was not ideal, no comments in sight to help explain to someone learning MVVM what the author was doing.

There is good stuff on XAML in this book, but if you are only looking to learn WPF MVVM then this book doesn't offer enough detail.

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Harold B. Mittiger

Reasonble kick-start into C#-based XAML

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2018

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Due to its shallow content, this book is over-priced. The poor standard of English grammar and punctuation in this book is frequently distracting and sometimes leads to confusion. Despite these shortcomings, the book does cover XAML basics and is useful for that.

PodHunter

Straightforward and easy introduction to WPF and MVVM

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2017

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A good introduction to WPF development. M. Weil uses a demonstrative approach followed by 'Now you do it!'. His writing style is easy to read. Although my primary goal was a primer on WPF, his introduction to MVVM is a bonus. The book is brief (159 pages) and quickly consumed, unlike some of the drier and deeper reference books. This book provides a good counterfoil to those heavyweight references.

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Paul McK

Really poor MVVM

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2020

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This book does not fulfill the promise of its title.

The sections on general use of WPF are ok but I bought this book to learn about MVVM and the coverage of this is very brief. I do not recommend this as a resource for MVVM.