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MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

Today is a very exciting day: After the official release of Windows 8 (and Microsoft Surface!) on Friday, and the official release of Windows Phone 8 on Monday, the Build conference is starting! This is the conference in which we will learn all about the developer experience for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

As a partner of Microsoft, I had the privilege of trying out some of the new things early, and this gave me the opportunity to port MVVM Light to Windows Phone 8 (it was already running for Windows 8), and today I am officially publishing this new version.

Before you go and update, please not the following: V4.1 (4.1.24.0) only supports Visual Studio 2012 (and Express). If for some reason you are still using Visual Studio 2010, don’t despair! In the next few days I will publish an update supporting these versions as well. But for now, please only upgrade if you are on VS12!

That being said, here we go: The download page is available on Codeplex and you can download the updated MSI and install it. Please make sure to read the Readme HTML page that automatically opens in your web browser after the MSI completes! It contains important information on how to install selected Project and Item templates for the frameworks of your choice.

This version also support the following versions of Visual Studio:

We also support Expression Blend of course.

Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are very very exciting opportunities for developers in the whole world. There are already a number of apps running on top of MVVM Light in the Windows Store and of course a large range of apps for Windows Phone too. With this release, we hope to support the developers and speed up application development. It is a pleasure to serve such an innovative and creative community!

Happy coding
Laurent

 

Print | posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:11 PM

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# Templates for adding a "New Item"

left by Daman at 11/1/2012 5:37 PM Gravatar
Hi Laurent, Great to see a Windows Phone 8 compatible version of MVVM Light. I have used the framework extensively with Windows phone 7 and loved it.

On Windows phone 8, I created a MVVM Light (WP8)project within Visual Studio 2012 Premium and am now trying to add new MVVM light Views and ViewModels, however i don't see WP8 options available for adding those templates. All I see in the available templates are SL and WPF templates. Is the idea to use one of these for WP8 as well ?
Would appreciate any help.

Thanks

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Stefan at 11/3/2012 12:41 AM Gravatar
I am having a big problem with my application since I started using MVVM Light: I am not able to publish it via ClickOnce anymore.

The System.Windows.Interactivity DLL is causing some kind of problem in the installation process. Upon execution of my ClickOnce package I get the error message 'Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly System.Windows.Interactivity Version 4.0.0.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache first.'

The application runs fine locally, the DLL is set to copy local and searching for resolutions didn't help either.

I have replicated the problem in a blank project. I can't be the only one experiencing this, can I?

Would like to learn more about MVVM Light, but for know it seems like a lost cause for me.

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Imgen Tata at 11/7/2012 4:38 PM Gravatar
Is the issue with "clr-namespace" on Windows 8 fixed? It's no big deal but very annoying

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Yannick at 11/13/2012 7:18 PM Gravatar
Bonjour,

J'ai Visual Studio 2012 Pro en anglais et après avoir installé la version ci-dessus de MVVM Light je n'ai pas les templates de projets.

Dans un projet j'ai mappé les dlls WP8 mais j'ai une erreur dans la ViewModelLocator !

Merci

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Laurent at 11/13/2012 8:05 PM Gravatar
Hello,

Pour les templates, il faut absolument lire le readme, je les installe maintenant en utilisant un VSIX qu'il faut executer. Voir le fichier sous Start / MVVM Light / Readme.html.

Pour l'erreur, quelle est-elle? Est-ce une erreur de design? Si oui, voir cet article:
http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2012/11/11/a-fix-for-the-design-time-error-in-mvvm-light.aspx

Merci
Laurent

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Evgeni at 11/22/2012 4:56 PM Gravatar
Yannick, run VSIX-file under Administrator account if you use VS under Administrator account.

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by DenysC at 12/12/2012 8:54 PM Gravatar
Bonjour Laurent,

J'ai installé la nouvelle version MVVM Light V4.1 et l'ai testé sur des applications Windows Phone 7.1 migrées vers Windows Phone 8. Je dois dire que les modifications apportées ont été vraiment mineures, une fois les updates de dlls MVVMLight effectués, tout roule maintenant super bien. No problemo...
J'adore MVVMLight et ne peut m'en passer. La saga va donc continuer en version 8 [Windows Phone 8 + Windows 8 Store].

Merci beaucoup Laurent, ta contribution est fort appréciée.

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Yannick at 12/16/2012 9:54 AM Gravatar
J'ai appliqué le remplacement des dlls mais tien n'y fait...

toujours le même problème.

Cela fonctionne avec VS 2012 et une application WP8 mais par pour VS2012 et une application WP7

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Laurent at 12/16/2012 10:54 AM Gravatar
Yep the problem doesn't want to go away.

I am going to push tonight some dlls without INotifyPropertyChanging, that should do it. In parallel I also have a query to friends from the Blend team, they will check that out in a few days,

Cheers
Laurent

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Laurent Bugnion at 12/16/2012 10:54 PM Gravatar
For WP7.1, please try the DLLs here:

http://sdrv.ms/UUyOfU

I temporarily removed the INotifyPropertyChanging interface implementation from Windows Phone 7.1. All the other frameworks are unchanged. In parallel, I have asked my friends from the Expression Blend team to look at the issue. Hopefully we can restore the full functionality soon.

I will publish these DLLs to the MSI installer and NuGet in the next few days.

Cheers,
Laurent

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Fabrizio Starred at 12/29/2012 5:24 PM Gravatar
To Daman:
Try to uninstall and reinstall all, visx included.
I had the same issue but I solved doing what I wrote above

# re: MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8

left by Dick van den Burg at 3/22/2013 9:59 AM Gravatar
I have the same problem with the item templates not installing for windows phone 8. Digging through the MvvmLight.VS2012.vsix file I could not find and item templates for WP8. The project templates in the vsix installed fine.
I am using Visual Studio 2012 Update 1.
I tried uninstalling MvvmLight and the templates, but that did not help, most likely because the item templates seem to be missing in the vsix.
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