Ashish Ghoda - Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed: covers both C# and JavaScript

Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed

Covers both C# and JavaScript

Ashish Ghoda

Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed

Copyright 2012 by Ashish Ghoda

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I dedicate this book to my grandparents (Nayansukhray and Kumud Ghoda, Mahavir and Sarala Majmudar), parents (Jitendra and Varsha Ghoda), sister (Kruti Vaishnav), and my lovely family (Pratixa, Gyan, and Anand Ghoda) whose blessings, sacrifice, continuous support, and encouragement enabled me to achieve this dream.

Ashish Ghoda

Contents at a Glance

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About the Author

Ashish Ghoda has been awarded a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellowship and is a senior IT executive with over 15 years IT leadership experience, enterprise architecture, application development, and technical and financial management.

He is a director at a Big Four auditing firm and teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and University of Maryland University College (UMUC) as adjunct assistant professor/faculty. He is also founder and president of Technology Opinion LLC providing IT services to organizations and IT community.

Ashish Ghoda is an author/co-author and technical reviewer of multiple books and articles on Microsoft platforms including XAML Developer Reference (Microsoft Press) and Introducing Silverlight 4 (Apress).

He has a masters degree in information systems from NJIT and has earned Microsoft and TOGAF certifications.

About the Technical Reviewer

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer using Microsoft technologies. He works for Brain Force ( www.brainforce.com ) in its Italian branch ( www.brainforce.it ). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the past ten years, hes written articles for Italian and international magazines and coauthored more than ten books on a variety of computer topics.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Ewan Buckingham, the lead editor of this book, who has given me opportunity to write this fast-paced guide for the new Microsoft Windows 8 application development platform.