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

Question

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 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

Answer 1

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