The topic of Model-View-Presenter starter resources came up at work, today, and I like the list I pulled together. So, I thought I would share with the rest of the world. This is by no means a comprehensive list, or even "the best" list - it's only what I pulled together in 10 minutes.
The original source of MVP :
http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/ModelViewPresenter.html
My own best practices for MVP, following the Passive View mentality
http://www.avocadosoftware.com/csblogs/dredge/archive/2008/02/20/787.aspx
This article should solidify a lot of what I am talking about in my best practices
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188690.aspx
Jeremy Miller was one of the guys to originally start pushing MVP into the ASP.NET community. He’s got a lot of good articles on his blog
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2006/02/16/138382.aspx
This was the article that really solidified my understanding of the basics of MVP, back when I first started learning it
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/ModelViewPresenter.aspx
Aside from those core MVP articles, there are several key concepts that you’ll want to understand in order to really be able to present / teach MVP, including:
- Single Responsibility Principle
- Open/Closed Principle
- Dependency Inversion/Injection and Inversion of Control
- Liskov Substitution Principle
The key to these principles is really the subtlety that underlines them. For example, the Liskov Substitution Principle isn’t just a fancy name for polymorphism – it’s what makes polymorphism work. You certainly are not required to know these principles forward and backward to be able to implement MVP, but you’ll find that the question of “why?” is easier to answer to if you do know them.
Honestly, when it comes down to it, these principles are what make object oriented development work – they are how you achieve the high cohesion, low coupling, and tight encapsulation that OOD wants. There are plenty of other principles (such as Orthogonality, the law of Demeter, and others) that will help you achieve this as well; but this is a starter-list, not the all encompassing list.
One of the books I've been reading recently, that covers these topics and more, is "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#" by Robert Martin and Martin Micah.
I highly recommend this book, not just for these topics. It's a great book, all around.