Creating a new MVVM Light application in Expression Blend

in Programming / MVVM Light Toolkit

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 project templates for Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4, WPF3.5SP1 and WPF4.

  • In Expression Blend, select the menu File, New Project.
  • In the New Project dialog, select the WPF/Mvvm project type (for a WPF project) or the Silverlight/Mvvm project type (for a Silverlight project). The templates are also visible in the top category directly.
MVVM Light templates in Blend 4

Executing the application

  • To see the sample application, press F5 in Expression Blend.
    • For WPF, this starts the application standalone.

    • For Silverlight, this starts your favorite web browser.