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Automated installer for MVVM Light V3!

  Posted on: 8/6/2011 7:50:59 PM | Views: 37

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For a very (too) long time, the installation procedure for MVVM Light sucked. It involved downloading and unzipping files in various locations. Unfortunately, creating an automated installer is not completely trivial because of the variety of files that are getting installed: Binaries, Code Snippets, Project and Item Templates, all require different locations, and all that for VS2008, VS2010, Blend 4 and Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4, WPF3.5 SP1, WPF4, WP7.0 and now WP7.1 "Mango".
Thankfully, MVVM Light is taking advantage of a great community. First, Leon Zandman initiated the project of an MSI for MVVM Light. Unfortunately, Leon was not able to complete this initiative, but the very helpful and capable Morten Nielsen created the installer in Wix. This gave me the occasion to learn Wix (I had only created setups with the Visual Studio setup project so far), and to tweak the installer. I am really ... Go to the complete details ...

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