View model (MVVM) usage explanation
Problem statement
While working with add-ins, 80% of the time we are recycling old WPF UI’s into new projects. This pushes us to be as productive as possible when creating the components.
One of the best practices we found during this process, is to use MVVM to feed context to the different components.
How to implement it on add-ins?
MODEL: Build the model for the view and implement INotifyPropertyChanged. INotifyPropertyChanged interface is used to notify the view or ViewModel that property was updated.
VIEW MODEL: To expose relevant data and behaviors to the view. Behaviors are usually exposed with Commands
VIEWS: There are many ways to bind DataContext to a view, in this case it will be added in the OnStartup method.
And just use the property names on the ViewModel to bind data into the view:
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