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Add More Documentation around MVVM Basic Pattern #886
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getting-started-endusers.md also needs other updates:
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Taking care of documentation update for Pages / Features. We saw the MVVMBasic as a simplification of any existing frameworks so we understood the users were familiar with the pattern and its applicability to UWP apps. @crutkas we need to plan to create the MVVMBasic documentation as a framework if we consider is worthy. |
I don't think we need to create a lot of documentation for MVVMBasic but needs something for people who need more information about how it compares to other options. Just a few paragraphs should be enough. MVVM Basic is not a framework but provides the minimum functionality to create an app using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. MVVM Basic is not intended to be a fully features MVVM Framework and does not include some features that other frameworks do. ViewModel-first navigation, IOC, and messaging being the most obvious ones. If you want these features then choose a framework that supports them. Projects created with MVVM Basic contain two important classes, |
This could be part of the "more info" in the wizard and can be included in the getting started. @michael-hawker does this make sense? |
@michael-hawker we're still working on how best to integrate WTS with different data sources. The challenge is that different people do things very different ways. This makes building something into the tool/generated projects or providing guidance very difficult. If you have some thoughts, I'd love to hear them. Either here or on #396
@michael-hawker I'm not sure what you're specifically after here. Are you talking about a command that can be activated from any VM or something else? |
@mrlacey about as a developer using MVVM Basic how I would store state for the application itself in its own VM and have a coherent model to share/access that data. In addition, info around how to pass info from one VM to another when constructing/navigating to another piece of UI. I know there's a lot of MVVM docs out there, but having info to aid developers off of a template and in context to a project I feel would be a big boost. |
So it looks like we need to document:
If someone is choosing MVVM Basic as they're just getting started with the pattern and don't want to learn a specific framework, we need to do more to help them. I think this is going to need a separate, specific document. While what I wrote above could go in the "more info" description we'll need a new doc for the above points. |
The other changes are in place. Re-assigning... This is not urgent so feel free to remove the in-progress label if you want. |
From a beginners perspective using MVVM Basic, i'm more after how Navigation is handled under the pattern/ MVVM basic. |
Basic documentation about MVVM Basic has now been added. |
Ideally, the template/documentation should fill-in some back-end model objects and show how those hook to the existing View/ViewModel patterns in WTS.
There should also be additional info about how you have an over-arching application/command model so that things can be interconnected.
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