With January almost over, my new project at work is now well under way. The application that I’m working on is essentially a WPF smart client that will be built on top of Composite WPF (aka PRISM) and follow the well-established Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. As it has been almost a year since I last programmed in WPF, I had to brush up quite a bit on my XAML, PRISM, Unity and MVVM. Here is the list of resources which I have found particularly useful to help me catch up with it all.

MVVM Pattern

• Patterns For Building Composite Applications With WPF (Glenn Block - msdn mag)
• WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern (Josh Smith - msdn mag)
• WPF Architectural Patterns Examples (Codeplex)

Prism

• Composite Application Guidance (patterns & practices)
• Unity IoC (patterns & practices)
• Learning Prism MVVM Fundamentals (Damian Schenkelman - Blog)
• MEF and Prism, to be or not to be (Glenn Block - CodeBetter.com)

Starter Kits and Sample Apps

• Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill - Blog)
• WPF Futures (Codeplex)

Frameworks

• Cinch WPF MVVM Framework
• Calcium Modular Application Toolset
• MVVM Light Toolkit
• Caliburn WPF and Silverlight Framework
• MVVM Foundation
• WPF Application Framework

Note: Jeremy Alles’ quick tour of existing MVVM frameworks and feature comparison matrix is well worth checking out before delving into any of the frameworks above.