MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Presentation tier foundation

Let's start things off by creating the visual layout of our application by following these steps:

1. Start a new Visual Studio instance.
2. Create a new WPF application project called Northwind.UI.WPF, and name the solution Northwind.
3. Add a folder to Northwind.UI.WPF called Skins, and add a new Resource Dictionary (WPF) file to that folder called MainSkin.xaml.
4. Open MainWindow.xaml for editing and update it as follows:

   <Window x:Class="Northwind.UI.WPF.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/ 2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="MainWindow" MinHeight="350" MinWidth="525" xmlns:ViewModel="clr-namespace:Northwind.ViewModel; assembly=Northwind.ViewModel" DataContext="{Binding ...