A Hello World template of a WPF application using MVVM

Hey all,

I created an MVVM project and then saved it as a template.  This way when I create new projects, I can simple choose MVVM Base and save a ton of time.

You can use my template if you want.  You can download it here: MVVM Base.zip

How to add the MVVM Base template to your Visual Studio

If you want this to be available as a new project type in you Visual Studio install, follow these steps.

  1. Download this template: MVVM Base.zip
  2. Place this zip file into the %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#.
  3. Create a new Visual Studio Project and choose MVVM Base from the list of C# projects.

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  1. Hi,

    This code will not compile. You have used $ sign which will not be acceptable at compile time.Also,in XAML it is not referring a correct namespace .

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  2. Hi there! Simple MVVM Toolkit works great with WPF. But as you know, RIA Services does not. What you will need to do is create a WPF app using the tookilt project template for WPF (it’s under Windows, Mvvm category when creating a new project in Visual Studio). Then add a WCF service to the solution and use that to communicate with your database. The best example of how to do this is Part 1 and Part 2 under Simple-Mvvm-Main folder in the samples folder (you will need to unzip the samples zip file). These are Silverlight projects, but they use WCF instead of RIA services, so they are a good guide to follow just use WPF instead of Silverlight and you should be fine.

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  4. Works fine and helped me a lot !

    But on HelloWordViewModel.cs replace NotifyPropertyChanged(“HelloWorld”); by NotifyPropertyChanged(“Text”); to avoid an error

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  5. your zip file wont compile. Your code has no comments. No idea what it was supposed to do..

    Fix it. Try adding a comment, say, on every line?

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