Hi

I learned about MVVM Light toolkit from a windows phone 7 book I was reading. When I downloaded the latest version of Light I found that lots has changed since the release of that book(2011) and found it hard to follow their tutorials.

I started to look for tutorials online but kept finding the same thing that the tutorials were out of date and could not be easily followed.

I started to watch your videos that you did and they are great to get a person excited about Light toolkit but to use them as a tutorial(even with the source code) is very difficult.

I am right now really stuck on how to even really use Light toolkit. I tried to learn from the source code but it is hard to follow.

I think it would be great if some investment in tutorials. I know it is nice to keep adding more and more features but documentation and tutorials are just as equally important.

Some topics I would think would be good would be

1. Intro with MVVM light and WP7/8(plus any other projects)
2. How to do navigation in WP7/8 with MVVM
3. How to do other events(onchange,mouse over and etc) in WP7/8 with MVVM
   

Thanks

Hi,

The question of the tutorials is a difficult one because for each person who asks for tutorials, I have at least another who tells me tutorials are not needed and I should rather concentrate on improving the toolkit. I also tried for some time to find people interested to create coordinated tutorials but it is hard to find motivated people to write documentation.

That said you will be happy to know that I am currently working in collaboration with Pluralsight to create an MVVM Light course. At this point I cannot tell you exactly when it is going to be ready but it will cover all the points that you mention and much much more. In the tutorial I will add examples for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows 8.

Please keep pushing me ;)

Cheers
Laurent

lbugnion wrote:

Hi,

The question of the tutorials is a difficult one because for each person who asks for tutorials, I have at least another who tells me tutorials are not needed and I should rather concentrate on improving the toolkit. I also tried for some time to find people interested to create coordinated tutorials but it is hard to find motivated people to write documentation.

That said you will be happy to know that I am currently working in collaboration with Pluralsight to create an MVVM Light course. At this point I cannot tell you exactly when it is going to be ready but it will cover all the points that you mention and much much more. In the tutorial I will add examples for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows 8.

Please keep pushing me ;)

Cheers
Laurent

Hey.

Hmm not sure how to proceed. I guess I will try to figure out how to use MVVM light one more time otherwise might have to try to find a toolkit with documentation as I can't really wait to for an unknown amount of time till documentation is available to start my project.

Hi,

Did you watch my introductory videos?

[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo1]
[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo2]
[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo3]

That should at least get you started.

Cheers
Laurent

lbugnion wrote:

Hi,

Did you watch my introductory videos?

[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo1]
[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo2]
[http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvmvideo3]

That should at least get you started.

Cheers
Laurent

Ya. I am trying to follow it(some stuff has changed). but it does not really go into navigating and such. I tried to follow this tutorial: http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2011/01/06/navigation-in-a-wp7-application-with-mvvm-light.aspx

but it really does not go into how to use it. Not sure if for now I should just stick to the basic click command and databinding and leave navigation and other events to the codebehind.

Not sure if I will lose blend(what is a huge draw for me...anything that makes data binding easier)

Laurent wrote a small app for a MSDN article that I found to be useful when getting started with MVVM Light.
It may help with some of your needs for working code examples.

MSDN download