MVVM: Tutorial from start to finish?

Question

I'm a C#/Windows Forms programmer with more than 5 years experience. I've been investigating WPF using the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern. I have searched the Internet for tutorials. I have even watched the entirety of Jason Dolinger's awesome video. Although I have found many, I have not found one that takes me from start to finish. What I really want is a tutorial that doesn't assume any previous WPF knowledge.

What are your favorite WPF-MVVM tutorials that helped you to learn?

Answer 1

Your question really seems to be asking 2 questions:

1. Where are some good tutorials on WPF, assuming I have no previous WPF experience?
2. Where are some good tutorials on learning MVVM?

Some of these resources may be duplicated in previous answers...

Tutorials on WPF

• A Guided Tour of WPF by Josh Smith

  I wrote a series of introductory WPF articles on The Code Project. The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that (s)he can fully understand how the series’ demo application works.

• Bea Stollnitz (link is to her archives) has a number of great articles on WPF.

• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of n by Sacha Barber

• WindowsClient.net WPF Training Videos

MVVM Tutorials

• WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern by Josh Smith (duplicate link already provided by Yacoder)

• Jason Dolinger's presentation on the Model-View-ViewModel (link to video embedded in article)

• Dan Crevier's DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern series (similar to MVVM)

Composite WPF (Prism) Resources
Though not exactly what you asked, it is the natural progression with WPF and MVVM.

• Codeplex: Composite WPF (Prism)

• Silver Bay Labs has a number of great videos on learning Prism

• Channel 9: 10 step-by-step videos on using Silverlight and Prism

• Codeplex: Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism): Part 1 (of n)

Answer 2

I was in exactly the same situation recently, mate, and I can tell you what I did.

Josh Smith "WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern" read again, again and again :-) download the code, examine, compile and keep it around

MVVM foundation

1. Examine the framework, use it in your app.
2. Look at the Demo application in that framework.

No real start-to-finish tutorials, sorry...