Where is the documentation for MVVM Light?

Asked 9/8, 2011 at 18:2 Answered 16/9, 2016 at 12:7

Is there documentation or a reference for the MVVM Light framework that let me know what is it capable of? After a lot of googling I've found very few things.

Zymo answered 9/8, 2011 at 18:2 Comment(10)

I suppose you already checked there? – Milson 9/8, 2011 at 18:8

Yes, and thank you. However, I feel this is not the full documentation as I'm not able to determine if MVVM Light has a given functionality. There is really no official documentation? – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 18:18

To my knowledge, the only official documentation is the source code. – Milson 9/8, 2011 at 18:21

Thank you Frederick & Obalix... now seems clear to me that learning MVVM Light has some unnecessary high curve... for me. Frédéric, please post something as an answer so I can give you the points. – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 19:5

About the unnecessary high curve, I think the mvvm pattern is more of a mindshift for most people(even though it's quite simple once you figured it out). I find the mvvm light toolkit simply helps easing out the mvvm learning curve other than making it harder to learn. Also, fyi, you can simply upvote someone's comment if you want to give him points, no need for him to post an answer. Cheers! – Reeba 9/8, 2011 at 19:11

Thank you Oxenon... how do I upvote a comment? – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 19:32

just mouse over the left margin of the comment and you'll see a flag (to report bad comments/spam) and a up-arrow (to upvvote). – Reeba 9/8, 2011 at 19:37

I see... "this is a great comment" gives the points? – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 19:53

Exactly! and the flag reports the comment as spam or unconstructive, I dont know if it makes lose points though. – Reeba 9/8, 2011 at 20:58

Good to know... you're very kind. – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 21:15

The primary documentation source is MVVM Light's website. Additional, documentation in form of problem solutions can be found right here on Stack Overflow. Also looking at the source code might help.

Personally, I think that both Laurent's presentation at MIX'10 and Josh Smith's article are best to start.

However, there is no explicit documentation for two reasons:

It is a free tool and writing extended documentation is a time-consuming task.
Nobody has volunteered to do so.

There is some documentation in the source code that could be extracted by using SandCastle, but I believe that the classes are reasonably self-documenting. Furthermore, in all the time I used MVVM Light I did not have the need for additional documentation, other than the documentation provided by the two sites above and the problem solutions here at Stack Overflow.

Subbasement answered 9/8, 2011 at 18:51 Comment(4)

I'm a little lost here... as you, Frédéric, appears "included" in Obalix answers does that means you "inherit" the points? Sorry, not fully used to this site functionality. – Zymo 9/8, 2011 at 19:34

Frédéric just corrected some of my spelling errors, and improved the wording (@Frédéric Hamidi: thank's). The points overlap as there are - as described in the answer - not many places where to find documentation. Although, there are overlaps with his comments, I decided to post a proper answer to make it more formal. Additionally, I wanted to share my experience with learning MVVM Light. Actually, I when writing the post I did not look at Frédéric's comments, but it is more or less common knowledge. – Subbasement 9/8, 2011 at 21:39

That the product is free and that writing documentation is time-consuming are somewhat orthogonal. The quality of the documentation is down to the importance that a developer attaches to usability. – Nellanellda 18/2, 2013 at 10:37

MVVM Light is not maintained anymore, and the first link is dead. The github page links to the microsoft MVVM toolkit as an alternative. – Interbreed 4/10, 2022 at 15:29

To answer your question, no there is no official documentation for the mvvm light toolkit, but I will give you the links I used myself and they were more than enough for me.

Those two conferences from laurent demonstrate the main uses of the toolkit along with general mvvm presentation. I found them really interesting and would recommend watching them if you are looking for what this toolkit is capable of.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX10/EX14 and http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/OPN03

Also:

http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvm/

http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/documentation

Reeba answered 9/8, 2011 at 19:8 Comment(0)

I know the question is old, but I just stumbled over the same issue. The API docs for all platforms and as HTML and CHM are located here: http://www.mvvmlight.net/help/

Hydrozoan answered 16/9, 2016 at 12:7 Comment(2)

But not anymore. – Somatic 8/8, 2018 at 15:35

@Somatic Indeed, the link on the website also points to this though. I pinged the author to check if it's maybe only temporary – Hydrozoan 8/8, 2018 at 17:6

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