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How to use MVVM Light Toolkit with existing non-MVVM Light Toolkit project

I need to use the Surface project template for the application that I am working on but I also want to use the MVVM Light Toolkit too. I see that I can "Add | New Item..." and choose an MVVM teamplate for a view, view model, or locator but there seems to be a few more things I need to do to wire this up beyond adding one of those and making sure I have added the reference to the mvvm assemblies.

I am in the process of trying to figure this out by studying what's gets generated when I create a MVVM Light project but I was hoping someone already had this all figured out and documented. I know that Laurent mentioned that he was going to write this up in a blog post but I looked and could not find it. If someone knows where I can find that post that would be killer. Thanks in advance.

+3  A: 

It's not too bad adding MVVM Light to an existing project. I finally wrote up the blog post I've been meaning to, just for this situation:

http://chriskoenig.net/2010/07/02/adding-mvvm-light-toolkit-to-an-existing-project/

Enjoy!

Chris Koenig  2010-07-03 04:37:29
Nice post, thank you! That covered it. As I mentioned, I am writing a Surface application and therefore have to use the SurfaceWindow template since things are a bit different for Surface views and so I also need to wireup the view pages as well. I think I have that figured out but I would love to see that post when you get time. Thanks again.
Russ Williams  2010-07-03 12:50:36
awesome! if you don't mind, please mark this answer as accepted :-)
Chris Koenig  2010-07-03 16:40:41

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