Creating a new MVVM Light application in Expression Blend

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 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). Both templates are also visible in the top category directly.

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.

Understanding the sample application

Please refer to this post to get more information about the sample created when you create the MVVM Light application.