Creating a new MVVM Light application in Visual Studio

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Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit

Please refer to this post for the installation procedures.

Creating the new MVVM Light project

If you are starting from scratch, you can create a new MVVM Light project in Visual Studio or in Expression Blend. The Toolkit installs one project template for Silverlight and one for WPF.

  • In Visual Studio, select the menu File, New, Project.
  • In the New Project dialog, select the Windows/Mvvm category (for a WPF project) or the Silverlight/Mvvm category (for a Silverlight project). All templates are also visible in the Visual C# category directly.

Executing the application

  • To see the sample application, press Ctrl-F5 in Visual Studio.
    • For WPF, this starts the application standalone.

    • For Silverlight, this starts your favorite web browser.