More Vroom Vroom Makes your Silverlight Zoom Zoom: Model View ViewModels for Silverlight and WPF Applications

As a follow up to Dependency Injection with Silverlight, this talk focuses on the advanced data binding and application modeling options that are available so that you can achieve a higher level of maintainability, functionality and testability in the UI layer of your application. ViewModels are the natural progression of MVC and MVP patterns in your application design. The concepts that are introduced will also help you to have a better level of separation between your development and designer teams, reducing the dependencies on each other and achieve a higher level of productivity.

Speaker Bio

Caleb Jenkins is a Senior Architect Team Lead at Six Flags Corporation. He writes the software so that we can ride the rides!

As a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .Net Architect Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .Net solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; Six Flags, Countrywide Mortgage, American Airlines, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few.

You may also recognize Caleb from his previous work with Improving Enterprises, or from his work as an active national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA), a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET, a Certified Scrum Master. He’s worked as a technical editor for Wrox Press, and was recently a featured presenter on xTrain and Adobe.TV. Caleb is also the host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv.

He lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busy himself playing Candy Land, Xbox 360 with his four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speak at conferences, and write code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he’ll post some of the gazillion interviews that he’s recorded on CommunityCast TV or blog more at http://developingUX.com

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