I have been trying to wrap my head around MVVM for the last week or more and still struggling a bit. I have watched Jason Dolingers MVVM video and gone through Reed Copsey lessons and still find myself wondering if i am doing this right...   I found both sources very interesting yet a bit different on the approach.  If anyone has any other links, I would be interested as I would really like to learn this. What is the best practice for the model to alert the viewmodel the something has happened?  As you will see in the code below, I created a very simple clock application.  I am using an event in my model but am not sure if this is the best way to handle this.  The output of the program is as expected, however I'm more interested in if I'm actually using the pattern correctly.  Any thoughts comments etc would be appreciated.My modelusing System;using System.Threading;namespace Clock{    public class ClockModel    {        private const int TIMER_INTERVAL = 50;        private DateTime _time;        public event Action<DateTime> TimeArrived;        public ClockModel()        {            Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(GenerateTimes));            thread.IsBackground = true;            thread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Normal;            thread.Start();        }        public DateTime DateTime        {            get            {                return _time;            }            set            {                this._time = value;                if (TimeArrived != null)                {                    TimeArrived(DateTime);                }            }        }        private void GenerateTimes()        {            while (true)            {                DateTime = DateTime.Now;                Thread.Sleep(TIMER_INTERVAL);            }        }    }}My View<Window x:Class=Clock.MainWindow        xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation        xmlns:x=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml        xmlns:ViewModels=clr-namespace:Clock        Title=MainWindow Height=75 Width=375>    <Window.DataContext>        <ViewModels:ClockViewModel />    </Window.DataContext>    <StackPanel Background=Black>            <TextBlock Text={Binding Path=DateTime} Foreground=White Background=Black FontSize=30 TextAlignment=Center />    </StackPanel></Window>My View Modelusing System;using System.ComponentModel;namespace Clock{    public class ClockViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged    {        private DateTime _time;        private ClockModel clock;        public ClockViewModel()        {            clock = new ClockModel();            clock.TimeArrived += new Action<DateTime>(clock_TimeArrived);        }        private void clock_TimeArrived(DateTime time)        {            DateTime = time;        }        public DateTime DateTime         {            get            {                return _time;            }            set            {                _time = value;                this.RaisePropertyChanged(DateTime);            }        }        /// <summary>        /// Occurs when a property value changes.        /// </summary>        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;        /// <summary>        /// Raises the property changed event.        /// </summary>        /// <param name=propertyName>Name of the property.</param>        private void RaisePropertyChanged(string property)        {            if (PropertyChanged != null)            {                PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(property));            }        }    }}
Simple clock view model
c#;datetime;wpf;mvvm
It seems your implementation is correct. You also touch a common discussion of MVVM.In MVVM should the ViewModel or Model implement INotifyPropertyChanged?One could argue you could let the model implement INotifyPropertyChanged. I'm not experienced enough with MVVM to answer this with a pro/contra argumentation.The main intent however is implemented and the separation is there either way.