Essential WPF

Blendability Part I – Design time ViewModel by Tomer Shamam

In case that you haven't added the word ‘Blendability' to your XAML Jargon yet, I’m sure this post will inspire you doing so. The Blend-ability term describes how a piece of data model or view model is viewable or designable at design time, whether by Expression Blend or Visual Studio Designer. Building a Silverlight or WPF applications, everybody loves using the MVVM pattern. This pattern greatly decouples the view from its logic and domain model, hence enabling relatively easy unit testing...