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Ian T. Lackey is talking about MVC to Silverlight page mapping and the SEO of Silverlight apps and is looking for input.

I have heard rumor that some of the spiders will start reading content from Silverlight apps; however, I personally do not want to wait for that to happen. Frankly, at this point I have not confirmed that it will happen by any credible source. So, I decided to see how difficult it would be to build a solution to this issue. What follows is my first attempt, and can (and probably will) be drastically improved from where it is today. This post, strays a bit from the typical format. I am documenting what I have done as opposed to showing a solution. In following posts I plan on cleaning this up and providing a step by step tutorial on how to do this.

Nikhil Kothari continues the discussion and investigation into the ViewModel pattern. This time he wants to cover how ViewModel and MVC fit together in an application at the same time.

I have put together a set of navigation features into Silverlight.FX: a Page base class, a PageFrame control, and a Navigate trigger action. The PageFrame class by default maps URIs to Page types automatically, but at the same time supports plugging in an MVC PageLoader that maps URIs to Controllers and Actions, and maps ActionResults resulting from those actions into visuals or Pages.

As soon as I have a moment, I will post a walkthrough of my demos. In the mean time, you can catch the Powerpoint slides and the talk's video from the MIX09 session page.

Jeff Weber's Mix 10k challenge entry didn't win any prizes, but it still stays a cool Silverlight game!

In his latest blog post Jeff guides you to the implementation of We Are Bugs and two of the patterns he used - Model-View-Controller and State pattern. Complete source code is available for free in a new CodePlex project. As Jeff says: 

Feel free to do pretty much whatever you want with the source.  Learn from it, extend the game, make derivative games, etc…  I don’t require anything specific, but a shout-out to Farseer Games is always nice. :-)

In part two of his articles about building AgiliTrain Shawn Wildermuth is going to show you how he implemented MVC.

Note: This article is submitted by Pencho Popadiyn for Silverlight: Write and Win contest.Thanks a lot, Pencho! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

1. Introduction

In the previous article I showed you how Silverlight and the Model – View – Presenter pattern (MVP) can interact with each other. Today I decided to move on ahead in the world of Object Oriented Programming and to present you another big player on scene – the Model – View – Controller (MVC) pattern. Actually the MVC is a MVP’s ancestor, and I think it must be studied first, but that is another topic. Before I start, I want to mention that the purpose of that article is not to compare both of the “brothers”, but to present you the world through the MVC eyes.