WPF MVVM - Correct way to consume a web service asynchronously

Question

I have implemented MVVM in my WPF application. I was wondering what is the correct way to consume a Web Service from WPF MVVM app.

So far, I have created a DataAccess interface and a class that implements this interface. This would serve as a facade / proxy to the web service. The ViewModel gets a reference to this class as the constructor parameter so it can make any calls to get/set data, in this case it will be a Web service call. I would appreciate if you can guide me with some hints and / or direct me to some online resource.

Answer 1

I know about 3 different ways of writting asynchronous code for MVVM:

• the classical using callbacks

• using coroutines:

  • project Caliburn
  • Using C# 2.0 iterators to simplify writing asynchronous code
  • many more..

• using Rx "Reactive Extensions" (this the newest):

  • The Joy of Rx: Building an Asynchronous API with Rx and IQueryable
  • Using Reactive Extensions in Silverlight

We aware that except the "classical" solution all the others use advanced techniques.