Recommended WPF Project Structure?

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Lee Englestone picture Lee Englestone · Aug 6, 2010 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I'm a stickler for good Visual Studio Solution and Project structures.

I'm about to start a WPF proof of concept piece of work.

Can anyone recommend some WPF Project structures they have used and found worked well?

Here http://drwpf.com/blog/2007/10/01/58/

They have one recommendation which I like:

    Root
    - Pages
    - Controls
    - Resources
    App.xaml

Where Pages, Controls and Resources are folders.

Has anyone found certain structures work well / don't work well?

Also I'd rather not get into a 'Model View Presenter' discussion if that's ok with you guys.

Answer

akjoshi picture akjoshi · Aug 6, 2010

I agree with alimbada. We have also created different projects for View and View models. It makes things easier to maintain in case of huge projects. Directories we had were -

 - ViewsRoot
    + Base
    + Controls 
    + Documentation 
    + Forms(Windows)
    + Reports
    + Resources 
    + Themes 
    + Utilities 
    App.xaml

 - ViewModelsRoot
    + Collection
    + Commands
    + Converters
    + Resources 
    + TemplateSelectors
    + ViewModels
    + Views (Interfaces for views) 
    Constants.cs 
    Utility.cs

I also believe in planning the structure in advance, this makes easy for all developers to get used to it and follow the same. Doing this later adds confusion and is painful in case you have to create seprate projects. Thats my view and am open to know of other better approches for this.

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