# MvvmCross vNext

This project provides a cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework built on top of Silverlight for WP7, Mono for Android and MonoTouch for iOS, and the WinRT XAML framework for Windows 8 Store applications.

This project makes extensive use of Portable Class Libraries to provide maintainable cross platform C# native applications.

Getting started

For setting up your development environment to support portable libraries, see the steps in http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/mvvmcross-vnext-portable-class.html

To learn about what MVVM is... please look at this introduction from Infragistics http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/anand_raja/archive/2012/02/20/the-model-view-viewmodel-101-part-1.aspx and http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/anand_raja/archive/2012/03/06/introduction-to-the-model-view-viewmodel-pattern-part-2.aspx.

For some background on Portable Libraries see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsplaisted/archive/2012/08/27/how-to-make-portable-class-libraries-work-for-you.aspx

http://vimeo.com/39019207 provides a video of me talking about this project (with poor noise quality - sorry...)

For more presentations (without sound) see http://www.slideshare.net/cirrious/

MvvmCross made it briefly to Channel9 - see http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/mvvmcross-on-channel9.html

To see how MvvmCross provides ViewModels, Views and bindings, see the samples within this project. This really is the best "Getting Started" information available.

For International inspiration, see:

• http://www.slideshare.net/Runegri/kryssplatform-mobilutvikling
• http://www.slideshare.net/dan_ardelean/mvvmcross-da-windows-phone-a-windows-8-passando-per-android-e-ios
• http://www.e-naxos.com/Blog/post/Strategie-de-developpement-Cross-Platform-Partie-2.aspx

About MvvmCross...

This project was born from:

• a branch of the MonoCross project, moving away from MVC and towards MVVM
• an extension project from http://www.cirrious.com
• some ideas from MvvmLight
• some ideas from ASP.NET MVC
• some ideas from OpenNetCF (Phone7.Fx)
• lots of my own ideas - http://www.cirrious.com and http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/

Here is the framework in action for the sqlbits conference app:

Public projects that have used this framework include:

• Kinect Star Wars - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPE2iTvlWg
• Aviva Drive - http://www.aviva.co.uk/drive/
• Various Conference apps - SQLBitsX, DDDSW, LondonAzure, ....
• The CrossBox DropBox client - https://github.com/runegri/CrossBox
• Have you used the app? Please send me your links and I'll add them here
• The Blooor shopping list app - https://github.com/Zoldeper/Blooor

vNext

This is the second version of the MvvmCross platform - vNext.

This version specifically provides:

• the same databinding and viewmodel framework from the original MvvmCross release
• an increase of code sharing through the use of portable class libraries
• a new plugin structure which makes it easy to consume and to reuse platform-specific code within your views and viewmodels

The motivation for the changes between version 1 and vNext are summarised in: http://www.slideshare.net/cirrious/mvvm-cross-going-portable

If you are looking for the "old" version of MvvmCross, then it's still available and still receiving updates at https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/tree/master

What's here...

Currently included:

• Mono for Android
• MonoTouch
• WindowsPhone (mainly WP7)
• WinRT
• some Console/NUnit work (although this is not supported as a full deployment target currently)

Samples:

• Book sample
• Conference sample
• CustomerManagement sample
• Tutorial sample
• TwitterSearch sample

With:

• Some empty project templates to use in VisualStudio (see http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/some-project-templates-for-vnext.html)

How to get involved

If you have questions, then please ask them on StackOverflow with tag mvvmcross - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mvvmcross

Alternatively, people on Xamarin forums can be very helpful - http://forums.xamarin.com/

If I haven't seen your question and no-one else has helped, then you can also contact me - me at slodge dot com - but please be patient with me if I'm busy with work.

If you need professional support, then please do contact me - I work freelance and can assist.

If you find bugs or have feature requests, then please report them through GitHub - https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/issues

If you would like to help make MvvmCross even better, then please do:

• new code - including pull requests via GitHub - or you can fork the project and build your own extensions
• new plugins - can be hosted in your own repositories
• please do blog about your adventures with MvvmCross - we're currently very light on documentation!
• if you use the framework, then please let me know - we love to see what people are doing with it.

Licensing

This project is developed and distributed under Ms-Pl - see http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

• MonoCross was the original starting point for this project, and was used as a reference under MIT - please see http://code.google.com/p/monocross/ for original details.

• Phone7.Fx is redistributed and modified here under Ms-PL - please see http://phone7.codeplex.com for original details.

• Tiny bits of MvvmLight are redistributed and modified here under MIT - please see http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/ for original details.

• NewtonSoft.Json is redistributed and modified here under MIT - please see http://json.codeplex.com for original details.

• The original work on the JSON.Net port to MonoTouch and MonoDroid was done by @ChrisNTR - https://github.com/chrisntr/Newtonsoft.Json

• Sqlite-net - custom license - see https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net/blob/master/license.md

• To be documented: MonoTouch.Dialog, MonoDroid.Dialog (not currently used), MonoTouch.NinePatch (not currently used), OpenNetCF IoC (used from wtihin Phone7.Fx?), code from Xamarin samples, code from PullToRefresh

Thanks

Thanks to McCannLondon for sponsoring the initial part of this work - http://blogs.mccannlondon.co.uk/