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Why and When of MVVM - MVVM series 1 of n

Developing software is HARD. In fact, I would say, it's very HARD. Patterns and Architectural Structures help, but... it’s still hard. Like any other architectural structures, MVVM is also a structure with a set of guidelines and NOT a set of rules. In the past few months, I came across various forums and online discussions, where people often ask "Why should I use MVVM? It seems like it complicates things" and I realized that MVVM is very difficult to learn for beginners who have very little knowledge of design patterns and frameworks. As of today, if you will search MVVM in any of the search engines, you will get lot many articles written by the extremely knowledgeable through to the novices, and it is really hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Apart from this, there are lot of resources which mention few points and miss out others, which may be very conflicting for those beginners as well as for some experienced programmers. I'm not going to call t