Applied WPF 4 in Context

Summary

I want to clarify a common misunderstanding I've seen in the NET communities in the past years, about using and working with the presentation patterns in general. A presentation pattern is adopted in order to loosely couple the UI logic from the presentation logic and to make the presentation part of the application more testable and flexible. It is not used to separate the domain from the UI; this is not the primary reason for adopting presentation patterns.

Presentations pattern such MVP and MVVM are only part of the UI; they don't represent the overall solution for UI architecture. With a presentation pattern, you should solve some specific aspects of the UI layer but this doesn't mean that you need a third-party framework or a personal ...