MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Appendix A. MVVM Frameworks

By Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi

The XAML community has been blessed with extraordinary developers who are always willing to volunteer their time. There are a myriad of MVVM frameworks available and it is a tough decision which one to choose from. This is because it is such a core architectural decision that it is nearly impossible to change the underlying framework in later stages of development without extreme risks. Here, MVVM Light Toolkit is our personal favorite.

Name	Author	License
MVVM Light Toolkit	Laurent Bugnion	MIT
Prism	Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team	Microsoft Patterns and Practices License (Custom)
Calcium	Daniel Vaughan	BSD
Caliburn	Rob Eisenberg	MIT
Cinch	Sacha Barber	MS-PL
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