Tau Liang's Blog

Silverlight is making a new pattern MVVM more popular by the day.  At a first glance I thought it was just a different name for the good old MVC pattern. On second look, there are actually quite some differences between these two:

• In MVC, controller is actively controlling the view
• MVVM makes view an active participant, more like a presenter
• In MVVM, ViewModel is passive, while View is active

1. http://russelleast.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/overview-of-the-modelview-viewmodel-mvvm-pattern-and-data-binding/
2. http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PresentationModel.html