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MVVM Framework Explorer update and top MVVM Frameworks

A couple of days ago I received an email from Geert van Horrik, a developer working on a new MVVM Framework called Catel. Geert asked me to update my MVVM Framework Explorer app in order to include his new framework. Here is the resulting updated app (click to launch):

Besides adding this new framework, I updated the download count for each framework, which allowed me to do some statistics. Here are the download progression for the most popular MVVM frameworks between July 2010 and January 2011:

Framework July 2010 January 2011 Progression
Calcium 7486 9963 33%
Caliburn 27012 36392 35%
Cinch 9865 15206 54%
CoreMVVM 3373 4419 31%
MEFedMVVM 905 2074 129%
MVVM Foundation 5759 7656 33%
MVVM Helpers 674 1571 133%
MVVM Light 11601 30111 160%
NitoMVVM 446 1098 146%
nRoute 7638 13724 80%
Onyx 2027 2195 8%
WAF 12255 30673 150%

Top progression during the last 6 months:

  1. MVVM Light (by Laurent Bugnion): +160%
  2. MVVM Helpers (by Mark Smith): +133%
  3. MEFedMVVM (by Marlon Grech): +129%
  4. WAF (by Jurgen Berchtel): +150%

Top downloaded frameworks:

  1. Caliburn (by Rob Eisenberg): +36 000 downloads
  2. MVVM Light (by Laurent Bugnion): +30 000 downloads
  3. WAF (by Jurgen Berchtel): +30 000 downloads

Congratulations to their respective authors.

Calcium 7486 9963 33%
Caliburn 27012 36392 35%
Cinch 9865 15206 54%
CoreMVVM 3373 4419 31%
MEFedMVVM 905 2074 129%
MVVM Foundation 5759 7656 33%
MVVM Helpers 674 1571 133%
MVVM Light 11601 30111 160%
NitoMVVM 446 1098 146%
nRoute 7638 13724 80%
Onyx 2027 2195 8%
WAF 12255 30673 150%

MVVM Frameworks Explorer updated

Today I’m releasing a new version of my MVVM Frameworks Explorer application. You can find the updated version here: http://www.japf.fr/silverlight/mvvm/index.html

Here is a list of the changes in this new version:

  • application updated to Silverlight 4
  • support is now detailed for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone
  • new frameworks added (MEFedMVVM…)
  • framework’s logo added
  • download count added (based on the information I found on CodePlex website)
  • about window

As always, feel free to give feedback 🙂

Discover and compare existing MVVM frameworks !

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post where I compared the existing MVVM frameworks. This post became a bit famous in the WPF/Silverlight blog world and I received a lot of feedback to update the list, fix information, etc. I also got a request from Erik suggesting me to put all the datas in a matrix.

Today I’m proud to announce the MVVM frameworks Silverlight application (click the image to open the Silverlight3 page).

silverlight-mvvm-app

A couple of observation:

  • please contact me via this blog or twitter if you find incorrect information
  • I’m not judging anybody’s work by giving rating, it’s just my personal feeling to have an easiest way to sort the data

Hope you’ll like it 🙂