Building an MVVM framework for both .Net and .Net CF

Introduction

As you might allready know, I am maintaining a .Net CF application for one of my customers. Unfortunately, the design of the app is a total disaster, and maintaining it is actually a living hell. Fortunately however, my client decided to order a complete rewrite, which I started today. This post will not contain the sourcecode (as it is a proprietary app), but rather explain the guts of the underlying architecture and some info about the design decisions used.

Maybe I will release some of the reusable components in the future under open source, but I am not quite sure yet...

Yet another framework ?

Actually, yes !! My main concern about this app framework is keeping it lightweight, flexible, ultraportable and easy to use. By ultraportable I mean that the app should both run on the default .Net, as well as on the Compact Framework, without recompilation.

Since no framework known to me meets my criteria, I decided to get started on yet another framework.

The main design decisions are heavily based on my previous experiences with MvcExtensions, my other framework, as well as a very inspiring and well-know lecture by Rob Eisenberg: "Build your own MVVM framework".

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