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Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 9648

What MVVM Framework (Silverlight) should I use?

I'm working on Silverlight, of course I use MVVM. I found many problems but I can create work-around solution for them (some of these solution is not elegant at all), now I think it's time to bring some framework to help me.

I need functions that listed below.

  1. Dependency Injection
  2. Navigation
  3. Callback
  4. Messaging
  5. Bind event to Command
  6. Testability

As I know, there are many Framework out there, such as, Jounce, MVVMLight and Prism. I want to know which framework is suitable for my need?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 545

Answers (3)

Inga
Inga

Reputation: 482

In WPF Prism is great, in Silverlight Jounce is the best by far. Its is very well integrated with MEF , very lightweight, elegant and stable. It also provides nice implementation to support complex events workflow scenarios, VisualStateManager in ViewModel (love that one), validation, debugging and unit testing; Used it in some quite complex projects and was happy I chose it.

Upvotes: 0

Rus
Rus

Reputation: 1827

I think that you should consider the scale of the application. If it is a relatively small application that is unlikely to grow I would choose MVVMLight.

For a larger LOB application I would consider PRISM or Caliburn. I would also recommend reading blog posts by John Papa and Jeremy MIller on MVVM, Screens and Coordinators. Their ideas and insights helped enormously in a large scale Silverlight project I've built.

Upvotes: 0

tchrikch
tchrikch

Reputation: 2468

When it comes to dependency injection I'd rather use MEF

which greatly simplifies code. As for the rest of the functions , currently I'm working with MVVMLight and I haven't faced any problem (although I'm not familiar with Jounce and Prism)

Upvotes: 1

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