To start off this new series, I have created a MVVM Helpers project template - this is a Visual Studio 2008 template which will create the starter project I will be using as an example. It shows off the primary usage of the MVVM library and has directories and references to required assemblies already established so it's a nice starting point for any MVVM WPF app using the helpers.

Download it from here and copy the zip file into your template directory.

As an example, if your user name was "Mark", like me and you are running Windows 7 it would be:
Here's what my directory looks like:

With that in place you should be able to fire up Visual Studio 2008 and create a sample MVVM project:

Let it generate a project and the build it -- running the program will give you a simple file explorer using the MVVM design pattern and WPF:

  

In tomorrow's post, we'll break the sample down and see how I built it. See you then!