MVVM Light toolkit - maintained? Here today - gone tomorrow?

I have been taking a look at mvvm light toolkit, i must admit i haven't got a lot of experience with it but i live开发者_运维问答 what i see..

I did use the mvvm toolkit (microsoft) but currently use vs 2010 and no templates are available as yet.

I was looking for some insight into mvvm light toolkit...

Is it always maintained ? i..e its not going to be gone tomorrow...

Or shoudl i be looking elsewhere??

I would really appreciate any feedback...

I also saw some info on how it is blendable which the mvvm toolkit (microsoft) didn't seem to have..

Prism also seems to be also a likely candidate but from what i understand its not a MVVM framework / toolkit

i would be using it with wpf

Any help really appreciated

Thank you

I will from now on use SO more actively to support the MVVM Light Toolkit (and outsource the support to others too ;)

I am committed to support and update the MVVM Light Toolkit as long as it makes sense, and as long as I have capacity to do so. Right now I am exactly in the middle of writing my new book about Silverlight 4, so obviously my capacity is reduced, but I still create new updates and new blog posts regularly. I am aware that, as for most open source frameworks, the documentation should be better, and I plan to work on that as soon as I can.

If I should find myself unable to work on the toolkit anymore, I will make sure to advertise this fact and do my best to find a new maintainer.

Thanks for the concern :) Laurent

Laurent is a fellow Microsoft MVP and I know he uses the toolkit regularly so I would expect regular updates for the time being.

Also, it is a codeplex project so you can get the code at anytime and fix / change anything you need to, even if it is not maintained in the future.

http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/

Just FYI it looks like Mar 17th was the last check in on codeplex so it is still actively being worked on.

The MVVM Light Toolkit has been updated quite regularly up to now. Since the maintainer, Laurent Bugnion, uses the framework himself, I think it will also be updated in the future. However, you can never know that for sure.

The Prism/CAL framework can also be used with MVVM. Actually, that's what I am currently doing. You can also combine parts of the MVVM Light toolkit and Prism/CAL.

There are also several other MVVM frameworks out there. If you are interested in them, you should have a look at this overview by Jeremy Alles.

MVVM Light is now available for Visual Studio 2010.